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“Here they came to snuff the rooster” in Cantrell country, but SHARK saved him

June 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness stops yet another big cockfight STRINGTOWN, Oklahoma––”Here they came to snuff the rooster,”  to paraphrase the best known song by “Alice In Chains” guitarist Jerry Cantrell,  the most famous of the 410 residents of Stringtown,  Oklahoma. Yet more than 60 carloads of cockfighting enthusiasts barely saw any roosters snuffed on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Alice In Chains, Bonnie & Clyde, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Kobliska, Miranda Lambert, Reba McIntire, Rob Baughman, Steve Hindi, Stringtown

Rodeo “wild cow milking”: living legacy of rich alleged child molester

March 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

One-time rodeo promoter Dr. Dan C. Trigg was not a man anyone wanted for a neighbor             CASTRO VALLEY, California;  TUCUMCARI, New Mexico––The Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Castro Valley,  California,  scheduled for May 20-22 ,  2022,  is “likely planning again to feature the brutal,  sometimes fatal,  and blatantly sexist ‘wild cow milking contest,’”  Action for […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Rodeo, Spectacles, Wild horses Tagged With: Dan C. Trigg, Donald Lee Mason, Dr. Ross Trigg, Eloise McFarland Trigg, Faye Mason Arries, Merritt Clifton, Rancho La Bamba, Steve L. Trigg, Steve T. Trigg, Tucumcari

How to take down rodeo like a bull flipping a cowboy in 8 seconds or less

February 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The rodeo fall could be short,  with a hard landing in mud & manure by Steve Hindi Rodeos are held across North America, but have such a narrow fan base that the concerts accompanying the major U.S. rodeos routinely outdraw the actual rodeo events, often by a factor of ten-to-one or more. World Wrestling Federation […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles Tagged With: Professional Bull Riders, Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Red Alert,  the bull,  Schrödinger’s cat,  Mark Twain, Spartacus, & Steve Hindi

February 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Will anyone proclaim “I am Red Alert!”?             KNOXVILLE,  LOS ANGELES––One might imagine that even the Professional Bull Riders,  hostile as as they are to the humane values of mainstream society,  might shy away from thematic alignment with the disgraced Austrian-Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist turned pederast Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). On […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Andrew Giangola, David Gershwin, Merritt Clifton, Red Alert, Roy Honeycutt, Steve Hindi

Why was there “a long lull in KY law enforcement against cockfighting?”

January 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Steve Hindi,  founder,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness “Another long lull in Kentucky law enforcement against cockfighting followed,  until the SHARK campaign debuted in 2020,”  ended the January 26,  2022 ANIMALS 24-7 article entitled Two cockfights stopped; Steve Hindi credits local opposition.             That sentence referenced the scarcity of cockfighting busts in Kentucky between a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, USA Tagged With: Alex Pacheco, Beth Clifton, Charlie's Pit, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Wayne Pacelle, Will Potter

Rodeo: busting up the animals in Nativity scenes in the name of Jesus Christ

January 17, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Eric Mills,  coordinator,  Action for Animals,  Oakland,  California “Cowboys,  sensing—like gorillas—that their time has passed,  cling ever more desperately to anachronistic styles, not willing to admit that the myth has degenerated,  the traditions eroded to a point where attempting to sustain them falls somewhere between silliness and the outright ridiculous.” ––Larry McMurtry in the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Cowboys for Christ, Di Evans, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, Gavin Ehringer, Joan Burbick, Larry McMurtry, Louise Serpa, PRCA, T.K. Hardy

Gary Tiscornia, 75, headed Michigan Humane & Monterey County SPCA

November 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Led Michigan Humane recovery post-David Wills             TUCSON,  Arizona––Gary Tiscornia,  75,  died on October 14,  2021 in Tucson,  Arizona,  his home for much of his childhood,  his university and early professional years,  and in retirement after 41 years of leading or helping to lead the Humane Society of Tucson,  the Michigan Humane Society,  the Society […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Circuses, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Rodeo, Shelters, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Eileen Liska-Stronczer, Eric Mills, Gary Francione, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Waldo Tiscornia, Warren Cox

Rodeo has had free pass from humane groups for 60 years, recalls Cox

August 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Dean of U.S. humane work Warren Cox bucked rodeo before there was an “animal rights movement” The ASPCA, HSUS, PETA et al ignore the Omak Suicide Race. Why?! asked Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] founder Steve’ Hindi in an August 11,  2021 ANIMALS 24-7 guest column. Hindi’s question reminded Warren Cox,  the dean of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Bullfighting, Bullfighting, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Shelters, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Don Anthony, Merritt Clifton, Omak Stampede, Steve Hindi, Warren Cox

The ASPCA, HSUS, PETA et al ignore the Omak Suicide Race. Why?!

August 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Steve Hindi,  founder,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness Showing Animals Respect & Kindness,  SHARK for short,  conducted our first rodeo investigation conducted in Wauconda,  Illinois,  in 1993. Our latest investigation concluded in Cheyenne, Wyoming,  on July 31 of this year––less than two weeks ago. In between we have exposed the cruelty of hundreds of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: ASPCA, HSUS, Omak Suicide Race, PETA, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

August 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 87th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 12-15,  2021,  after a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Native American beliefs, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Wild horses Tagged With: Alex Dick, Allison Williams, Claire Pentz, Karen West, Larry Lansburgh, Lillian A. Ackerman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Timiraos, Roger Harnack, Warren Cox, Will Anderson

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