AUSTRALIA is gradually becoming more civilised in relation to animal welfare.
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There is a push to stop horse steeple racing, caged hens, unregulated dog/cat breeding and other animal welfare issues, which includes rodeos.
Animal welfare is governed by two acts: the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations 2008.
I would encourage the readers of this letter to go onto the internet, locate these two acts and read them. Especially read in the first act (Section 9), which deals with cruelty, and consider the words used which represent cruelty.
Rodeos take normally placid animals and do things to them to get them agitated and stressed out enough to buck fiercely in an attempt to get rid of what is on their backs and get relief from the flank strap and spurs that are used on these animals.
This treatment to these animals clearly, to any sensible person, breaches both these acts.
On March 15 a rodeo was held in Chiltern.
The rodeo stock was provided by the McPhee Rodeo Company.
I’d like to witness just how their stock animals are trained.
I have recently contacted local, state and federal members regarding rodeos and have so far had only a few replies, which have just passed the buck.
I am waiting to hear back from a letter sent to Naomi Friede who is the policy legislative officer at the Bureau of Animal Welfare (DEPI).
Why not just ban flank straps, spurs and electric probes, which are used, and see how well a rodeo would proceed?
Rodeos are nothing more than a form of animal cruelty just to entertain ourselves.
Australian’s need to become more civilised and banning rodeos would be a step in the right direction.
— SUMNER BERG,
Beechworth