Rodeos?

[Sevaede]

I cannot stand rodeos.

I have lived most of my life in a little town called Pendleton, Oregon. It is a literal holiday there. It happens during the third week of September (every year) and people usually get out of school and businesses open up wayyy longer. I was working at a sub shop and they stayed up until past midnight (usually closed at 6, I believe). They shut down main street and vendors take up all the space in town (not to mention all hotels are booked. Troy worked at the official hotel of the national bull riders association or whatever). The town triples in size. There are parades, there is the native american pageants, there are all sorts of music and acts. It is like no type of craziness I have ever seen.

It is definitely a bigger event than any other in town.

Edit: Last year, they had budweisers Clydesdales there. HUGE and beautiful.

[Miss Z]

As Western riding is pretty unpopular here, I have never been to, and probably never will go to, a rodeo. As yet, I can't say I hate them because I do not know the full ins-and-outs of them, but generally from the snippets of writing I've read in a many a horse enyclopaedia, I don't think I like them. I find the skills of the Quarter Horse and rider barrell racing or rounding up young bullocks quite fascinating, but bronc-riding and bull-riding etc I'm not sure I agree with. Anyway, personally I don't see what's that interesting about how long some guy can sit on a bucking animal.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I have lived most of my life in a little town called Pendleton, Oregon. It is a literal holiday there. It happens during the third week of September (every year) and people usually get out of school and businesses open up wayyy longer. I was working at a sub shop and they stayed up until past midnight (usually closed at 6, I believe). They shut down main street and vendors take up all the space in town (not to mention all hotels are booked. Troy worked at the official hotel of the national bull riders association or whatever). The town triples in size. There are parades, there is the native american pageants, there are all sorts of music and acts. It is like no type of craziness I have ever seen.

It is definitely a bigger event than any other in town.

Edit: Last year, they had budweisers Clydesdales there. HUGE and beautiful.

It's the same way where I'm from. The rodeo is a huge event and kids get out of school for it. They have 2 big rodeos each year, one in October and the other in February and a bunch of smaller events throughout the year. The one in February is HUGE. Along with the rodeo in February they have a fair and a pageant and lots of things.

I'm not against rodeos, but I'd rather spend my time elsewhere so I never go. My parents and sister go almost every year though.

[Sevaede]

It's the same way where I'm from. The rodeo is a huge event and kids get out of school for it. They have 2 big rodeos each year, one in October and the other in February and a bunch of smaller events throughout the year. The one in February is HUGE. Along with the rodeo in February they have a fair and a pageant and lots of things.

I'm not against rodeos, but I'd rather spend my time elsewhere so I never go. My parents and sister go almost every year though.

Heh, yup! How long do they get out of school there? In Pendleton, they get out for the whole week that Round Up is in session. They have events all around too, lots of carnivals!

All the animals there are the farmers' kids' 4H horses, cows, etc.

I agree, I'd rather spend my time somewhere else than at the rodeo. It's just not that entertaining for me. I don't care if anyone else goes, it just a personal entertainment preference!

In Pendleton, the kids on probation get to scrape the paint off the stalls and repaint them. Heh.

[Alysser]

I like the ones Jenna described. IF the animal has any discomfort, even the slightest, I am agianst it. Why? because if an person hates discomfort so does an animal, and why should an animal feel something like that? Some rodeos even neglect their animals, I saw this on "Animal Priecent"