Activists Level Abuse Charges Against Local Rodeo

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[video at full story link]CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. -- For almost nine decades, cowboys and cowhandshave gathered at the Rowell Ranch in Castro Valley to take part in thetime honored tradition of the rodeo. But now animal rights activistsare leveling stinging accusations of abuse against the rodeo, and theysay they have video to prove it.Two animal rights groups say horses used at the Rowell Ranch Rodeolast weekend were repeatedly shocked with a stun gun type device toget them to buck.The activists posted video of last weekend's rodeo on Youtube. Itshows a man in a blue shirt repeatedly leaning over the horses andusing some kind of device on the horses to get them out the chute.The activists claim it's a type of prod that gives the animal a joltof electricity and is nothing more than animal abuse."They are breaking the law. They are torturing animals. They are usingshocking devices

which state law says clearly is illegal to use onthese animals while they are in the chute," explains activist AlfredoKuba of the Defend Animals Coalition.-- full story:http://www.foxreno.com/news/16346348/detail.html http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join http://www.myspace.com/fortheanimals7