A letter in the July 15 Gazette included some common misconceptions about the treatment of animals at rodeo events. The letter claimed that rodeo animals are treated cruelly. The truth is that people ...

Longview’s Thunder Mountain Pro Rodeo sold out all three nights for the second year in a row. But while the popularity of rodeo grows, animal activists worry about the treatment of horses, bulls and ...

Why is cruelty legal when it’s entertainment? Williston, Vt.: Animals should not be injured or killed for entertainment. That’s what rodeo is. It bears no resemblance to ranching. I grew up on a ...

As the rodeo has cemented itself as a January staple, it’s also been marred by animal injuries and deaths each year.

This will likely be the last year the rodeo comes to Petco Park, and that is not accidental. Corporate sponsors are waking up ...

A small group of animal welfare advocates will demonstrate outside the George Ingalls Equestrian Center this weekend to protest the 39th Norco Mounted Posse-Professional Rodeo Cowboys’ Association ...

As a former bareback bronc rider, pathologist and large-animal veterinarian, I have the experience and autopsy proof that rodeo injures and kills animals. Dr. Robert Bay autopsied roping calves and ...

Gay animal rights activists are saddling up for their annual protest against the gay rodeo that takes place this weekend in the Russian River area. The Best Buck in the Bay Rodeo and Festival, an ...

The rodeo season is upon us, and the sport is alive and kicking (literally) in the Inland Northwest. In Cheney, Omak, Lewiston, Worley and elsewhere, you can see ropers, riders, queens and clowns ...

It’s the last rodeo for bullfighter Zach Call. The Seneca native retired from professional bullfighting after the Buffalo Bill Rodeo in North Platte Saturday. Call, who is 32 years old, got his start ...

National Champion sorts horses for a rodeo on his Appendix Quarter Horse from Canada named “Creole” on Aug. 28, 2025, in Buffalo. Horses that bucked in the previous rodeo were put back out to pasture ...