Walking on water is easy...
Walking on water is easy...
It just requires the proper motivation:
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KatieBell
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That sounds dreadful!
The intentionally taunt and hurt the bulls all week long and encourage them to try to commit suicide. The only escape from the three-sided pen is into the water. Then they pull them out of the water and make them do it again and again all week long, poking them with nails and throwing sand and bottles at them. It said at the beginning of the week, the bulls avoid the water until they can't take it any longer but by the end of the week they head straight for it.
It sounds just cruel!
The intentionally taunt and hurt the bulls all week long and encourage them to try to commit suicide. The only escape from the three-sided pen is into the water. Then they pull them out of the water and make them do it again and again all week long, poking them with nails and throwing sand and bottles at them. It said at the beginning of the week, the bulls avoid the water until they can't take it any longer but by the end of the week they head straight for it.
It sounds just cruel!
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djm
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Any form of rodeo entertainment works the same way. Those bulls you see at the cowboy shows get their tails rubbed raw against the fences by the wranglers to ensure the animal is in pain and looks entertainingly feisty enough to give the audience a good thrill during the ride. Its up to you whether that's something you condone or not.
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KatieBell
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I planned to go to the rodeo recently. I looked up videos on YouTube (there are a ton). I couldn't stand the calf tying.
I understand why genuine cowboys need to do it and I don't have a problem with them doing so. But I didn't find it in the least entertaining to see a grown man chase after a baby cow inside a small enclosure, then knock it down, tie up its feet, and triumphantly watch it struggle to free itself. I found it rather depressing.
Look at me! I'm better than a baby cow when I have the advantage of a horse, a lasso, and a small pen. Whoopee!
I'd much rather go down to the family ranch and watch real cowboys at work. No one there finds taunting the animals to be entertaining. Instead, they respect and protect them and realize their majesty and power. Entertainment comes from games, dances, songs, jokes, stories, music, and shooting beer cans or watermelons. I suppose tourists wouldn't pay to see that.
I understand why genuine cowboys need to do it and I don't have a problem with them doing so. But I didn't find it in the least entertaining to see a grown man chase after a baby cow inside a small enclosure, then knock it down, tie up its feet, and triumphantly watch it struggle to free itself. I found it rather depressing.
Look at me! I'm better than a baby cow when I have the advantage of a horse, a lasso, and a small pen. Whoopee!
I'd much rather go down to the family ranch and watch real cowboys at work. No one there finds taunting the animals to be entertaining. Instead, they respect and protect them and realize their majesty and power. Entertainment comes from games, dances, songs, jokes, stories, music, and shooting beer cans or watermelons. I suppose tourists wouldn't pay to see that.
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Chuck_Clark
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There is a way to endure, not really enjoy, either a bullfight or rodeo. Its actually a quite normal American behavior, anyway. Just root for the underdog, i.e. the bull.
You will generally be disappointed, of course, just as if you were rooting for the underdog at any other sporting event. Still, there is a certain enjoyment in watching the jerk in his "suit of lights" sailing through the air off the bull's horns or the bull doing a dance on the "cowboy"'s head.
The best solution, of course, is don't go. Buying a ticket is paying them to practice their sadism.
You will generally be disappointed, of course, just as if you were rooting for the underdog at any other sporting event. Still, there is a certain enjoyment in watching the jerk in his "suit of lights" sailing through the air off the bull's horns or the bull doing a dance on the "cowboy"'s head.
The best solution, of course, is don't go. Buying a ticket is paying them to practice their sadism.
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