Complaints Filed Against Veterinarian of Record for the California Rodeo Salinas

August 20, 2013

Conflict of interest cited as motivating factor for false reporting/non-treatment of injured animals

SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) today filed two complaints with the Veterinary Medical Board of California against Tim Eastman, the veterinarian of record for the California Rodeo Salinas. The first complaint deals with his underreporting of the number of injured animals, while the second deals with his lack of care for those same injured animals.

In his report of injuries that is mandated by state law, Eastman stated that only three animals were injured.  SHARK, however, video-documented twenty-three animals that had been injured during the rodeo. A video showing each of these injured animals has been published on YouTube.

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Police Caught on Own Cameras Admitting they Violated Rights of Activist

August 13, 2013

Animal Protection Group Calls for Justice Department to Investigate  

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgSfCxq0hdY

 • In just 12 hours, this video has already received more than 75,000 views on YouTube and Liveleak 

In 2012, SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), an Illinois-based animal protection organization, video-documented cruel acts of "horse tripping" (where rodeo riders rope horses around their legs, which brings them crashing to the ground) at the Big Loop Rodeo in Jordan Valley, Oregon. The video of this animal abuse went viral, with more than 200,000 views, and it sparked a movement in the Oregon legislature to ban horse tripping. You can watch that video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmp8pkbU03I 

On May 18, 2013, when SHARK went to this year's Big Loop Rodeo, the Malheur County Sheriff's Department, which has financial and personal ties to the rodeo, violently arrested a SHARK investigator whose only crime was videotaping a cruel event that many Oregon lawmakers were trying to ban (the law subsequently passed and will take effect January 1, 2014).

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Oregon Rodeo so Violent, YouTube Bans Children from Watching it

August 16, 2013

Animal Protection Group Calls on County Commissioners to Age-Restrict Rodeo Events

On July 13, 2013, SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) videotaped a horse tripping event held at the Harney County Fairgrounds in Burns, Oregon. On August 3, 2013, SHARK published a video exposing multiple acts of horses having their legs roped and then crashing to the ground. The horses often struggled terribly to get back up.

Watch the video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlqH7uBJF68

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Harney County Horse Tripping Exposed on YouTube

August 7, 2013

Viewers Worldwide Express Anger, Disgust

A new YouTube video looks like it will go viral, with more than 2200 views in four days.

The disturbing video can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlqH7uBJF68 

The video was shot at a July 13, 2013 horse tripping event held at the Harney County Fairgrounds in Burns, Oregon. A team of documenters from SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) showed up, and was told that no video or cameras with detachable lenses would be allowed.

Undaunted, the SHARK team entered the event, and immediately discovered both detachable lenses and video cameras being used by people in the stands. When rodeo officials were advised of the supposedly banned devices, they chose to do nothing to rodeo supporters, while continuing to warn SHARK investigators against the same devices.

Having exposed rodeo lies regarding cameras, the SHARK team left the fairgrounds to set up two Hi-Pods next to the public road. The Hi-Pod allows investigators to raise their video cameras thirty feet into the air. In spite of rodeo people’s attempt to place horse trailers in the way to block their activities from the world, the cameras peered right over them, and documented the obvious abuse. 

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