Purported “historical” defense of steer-tailing & horse-tripping misrepresents sources For about as long as it took Mexican American Classic Charrería Organization founder and president Edward F. Ramirez to send ANIMALS 24-7 an email back on October 3, 2023, Ramirez appeared to make common cause with Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in denouncing charreada animal abuse. […]
Charreada horse beater Christofer Dorado charged in Joliet, Illinois
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness video shows what Dorado did. Court to decide if beatings were crimes. JOLIET, Illinois––The People of the State of Illinois, represented by the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Joliet, county seat for Will County, on October 3, 2023 brought two misdemeanor cruelty charges against horse-beater Christofer Dorado, of Batavia, Illinois. […]
Charreada steer-tailing loses first court test in Will County, Illinois
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone video persuades Illinois state’s attorneys & county court judge JOLIET, Illinois––A terse handwritten note from Will County, Illinois county court judge John Anderson on September 8, 2023 handed Showing Animals Respect & Kindness a first big win––at least on paper––in a year-long campaign against charreada cruelty in the […]
HFA & SHARK lawsuit hits Boone County, Illinois, for permitting steer-tailing
Case has potential to stop charreada throughout Illinois BELVIDERE, Illinois––Charreada promoters suddenly have something more to worry about during the second half of the Illinois charreada season than just Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drones monitoring steer-tailing, electroshocking, horse-flogging, and horse-tripping. An August 24, 2023 lawsuit brought against Boone County, Illinois, by the Humane […]
Drone wars over Joliet: charreada rodeo bad actors identified
Meet Cris Dorado Aguirre, “El Lodo,” and Angel Ramirez, “El Barro.” (Both nicknames translate to “mud.”) JOLIET, Illinois––Who was the more brazen at recent charreada “Mexican style” rodeos held in Will County, Illinois: • Horse-beater Cris Dorado Aguirre, caught repeatedly in the act on video by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drones on July […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 89th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to conclude on August 13, 2023, as the final event of the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo. Checking to see how many horses died at Omak this […]
“Big Lickers” & pals Haggerty & Vilsack defy the ghost of Clant Seay
The Prevent All Soring Tactics Act, or PAST Act, may be barn-sour WASHINGTON D.C.––The ghost of Citizens Campaign Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay, also known as the Ghost of PAST Act Failed, may already be rattling stacked horseshoes and chains in the offices of U.S. Senator Bill Haggerty and Agriculture Secretary Tom […]
Calves’ tails yanked off & horses flogged to start charreada season
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness videotapes worst charreada violence yet WOODSTOCK & BELVIDERE, Illinois––Charreada season is back and more gratuitously brutal than ever in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, the first Showing Animals Respect & Kindness charreada drone videos of the year show, with more expected from charreada sites in both Boone and McHenry counties. […]
Wild cow milking out in Livermore, charreada abuse OK in Boone County
Livermore rodeo acts voluntarily; Boone County flouts Illinois law, own ordinances, and even Mexican Federation of Charreria rules LIVERMORE, California; BELVIDERE, Illinois––Probably the most remarkable aspect of the Livermore Rodeo board of directors’ recent decision to drop so-called “wild cow milking” from the June 2023 edition of one of California’s oldest and largest rodeos is […]
Direct action heroes for animals: Popeye, Olive Oyl, Betty Boop & Grampy
Rescuers, yes, but exemplars of animal rights? Not exactly. Eighty-eight years ago, forty years before the dawn of the animal rights movement, a muscular quasi-vegan sailor and his lanky girlfriend rescued animals on the silver screen, soon joined by a sexy “flapper” who sang jazz and her aged but ever inventive grandfather. Popeye, Olive Oyl, […]