Reno Rodeo - Cruel and Deadly

2015 Update! In preparation for this year's rodeo, SHARK is a running a series of three television ads to educate people about the cruelty of the Reno Rodeo.

See the ads here.

In 2011 SHARK's cameras documented the Reno Rodeo shocking horses with 5,000 volts of painful electricity to make then appear wild. You can see the video below. The rodeo promised to make changes for the next year.

Reno Rodeo Cartoon by Jeff Hickman (click to enlarge)

In 2012 SHARK returned to the Reno Rodeo and and again documented them shocking horses to perform. The only change they made was to try and do it secretly now. The rodeo thugs had hidden a shocking device inside a glove and were shocking horses, some right in the face, with their hidden torture device that the manufacturer says shouldn't be used in a rodeo setting and NEVER on horses. Video below.

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California Rodeo Salinas

Cruel, Illegal Bull-Baiting at 2019 California Rodeo at Salinas

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Cowtown Rodeo Cruelty

The Cowtown Rodeo Abuses Horses 

cowtowncruelty.com

The Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, NJ hosts a weekly PRCA-sanctioned rodeo during the summer months. Every single time that SHARK investigators attended the rodeo they documented rodeo thugs shocking horses to make them perform. In 2013, after being electroshocked, a horse died on the arena floor: 

"Duke" Dying at 2013 Cowtown Rodeo 

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Atlantic City, NJ Rodeo

Animal-rights activists plan protest when the rodeo opens in Atlantic City

Posted: March 30, 2011

By CAITLIN DINEEN, Staff Writer pressofAtlanticCity.com

ATLANTIC CITY - Animal-rights activists, who say this weekend's Atlantic City Boardwalk Rodeo is inhumane, plan to protest Friday at Boardwalk Hall.

"We fight it because it's absolutely animal cruelty," Stuart Chaifetz, the state's coordinator for Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, said Tuesday.

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