Email to Stop Horse Beatings and Cruel Steer Tailing!

September 16, 2022

Dear Friends,

In 2008, SHARK documented a cruel steer tailing rodeo. After a lot of work, SHARK was able to get this event shut down. Now steer tailing has returned in an adjacent county and includes rampant horse beatings! SHARK needs your help to stop these events. Please use the email block further down to request that these events stop being allowed to happen.

This is from a steer tailing event held on August 27, 2022. This steer's leg was broken (pictures below) early in the day. In violation of the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act, the Illinois Stock Contractor Requirements and the PRCA Livestock Welfare Rules, this injured steer was not provided
conveyance out of the rodeo arena, nor any medical care the entire day.

At the end of the day, the steer was forced (using the electric prod) to hobble out of the pen on three legs and onto the truck with all of the other steers being hauled away.

SHARK also documented excessive shocking of the steers with prohibited electric prods that emit 10,000 volts of painful electricity.

SHARK filmed another steer tailing event on Saturday, September 10 in the same county. Three steers were injured - and treated the same way - no medical care! Two steers had broken horns, which is very painful, and often accompanied with skull fractures. One steer was run over by a contestant's horse that left him with a leg injury.

Video: Animal Abuse Allowed in Boone County, Illinois

Adding to the cruelty, was the contestants mercilessly beating their
horses! The horses did their part, but if the contestant failed to make the run, they took their frustration out on their horse - over and over again! No one stepped in to stop the beatings!

Video: Horses Beaten in Boone County, Illinois

At each event, SHARK documented and estimated that each steer would have been forced through about 20 runs per day.

All of these are violations of the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act.

No one wants to get knocked to the ground even once. Knocking a running animal down 20 times in a day is obviously a ridiculously cruel activity that severely overworks the animals involved, and puts them at risk of injury. Beating an animal is never acceptable! Such abuse and violations of regulations should be prosecuted!

Please use the following email block to contact the Boone County Board, the State Attorney, the Boone County Zoning Department, the Boone County Sheriff and the Illinois Dept of Agriculture to strongly request that they stop all steer tailing events.

A proposed email could include the following:

I have seen video links from Showing Animals Respect and Kindness of the brutal steer tailing rodeos and horse beatings held in your county in recent weeks.

The rodeo violated the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act, the IL Stock Contractor Requirements and the PRCA Livestock Welfare Rules. Why isn't there any enforcement of these regulations? These rodeo events should not be allowed to continue!

Please immediately stop issuing permits for all steer tailing events since the organizers have proven their willful contempt of the regulations associated with these events.

I await your response.

Animal Abusers On the Run! (SHARK's Mid-2022 Review) here.

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