The town of Van Horn, Texas has confirmed that they have canceled the
donkey roping event that was scheduled for this weekend (June 23-24),
due to public outcry and the number of complaints registered with the
town regarding the cruelty and trauma these donkeys experience as a
result of this "sport."
However, please do not stop the train just yet. Until these donkeys are in safe and loving hands, this job is not complete.
There
are at least two rescue operations willing to take the donkeys, if my
understanding is correct. They cannot go in and take the donkeys - at
this point, and unless/until charges are filed by the authorities, Jason
Owens must release the donkeys into rescue.
PLEASE continue to call and email to make sure these donkeys are out of this man's care.
Further, I would suggest we all let him know that we will be watching his company for future abuse of animals.
Contact info:
Jason Owen of Dos Gringo Productions 432-940-9051 thedollarj@hotmail.com
Oscar Carillo, Sheriff of Culbertson County, Texas, 432-283-2060
No one should make money off the torture of defenseless animals. Keep this candle burning and make two phone calls.
Civility
and respect go further than anger and hate so please model the kind of
behavior we would like to see shown to the donkeys themselves!!
billie hinton’s camera-obscura:
life and lessons on November Hill Farm
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
LongNow project and donkey torture: the dissonance is deafening
Please GO HERE and read about this amazing project being installed near Van Horn, Texas. I have written to LongNow and Stewart Brand asking them to join the chorus calling for the 40 donkeys to be released to the rescue who is waiting to take them. Join me!
Jeff Bezos of Amazon is also involved in the Long Now project. Writing him shortly.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon is also involved in the Long Now project. Writing him shortly.
please read and act for the donkeys TODAY!!
GO HERE for all the info you need.
There are 40 donkeys waiting to be used for donkey roping this weekend. There is a rescue standing ready to take ALL of them and release them from this torture.
Call the owner and proprietor, Jason Owens, who earns a living putting donkeys in arenas to be roped fore and aft and stretched out like a rubber band. Over and over again.
Tell him why donkeys do not deserve this kind of abuse.
Call the Texas Attorney General's office too and tell them to look into it. Just because something is a tradition doesn't make it right. Supposedly humans have the ability to grow and change and enlighten ourselves - why not start now, with THIS!!
There are 40 donkeys waiting to be used for donkey roping this weekend. There is a rescue standing ready to take ALL of them and release them from this torture.
Call the owner and proprietor, Jason Owens, who earns a living putting donkeys in arenas to be roped fore and aft and stretched out like a rubber band. Over and over again.
Tell him why donkeys do not deserve this kind of abuse.
Call the Texas Attorney General's office too and tell them to look into it. Just because something is a tradition doesn't make it right. Supposedly humans have the ability to grow and change and enlighten ourselves - why not start now, with THIS!!
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Please help stop donkey roping!
Linda Carson at 7MSN has posted two blog posts giving information
about an upcoming donkey roping debacle in Van Horn, Texas. This is an
extremely cruel sport in which donkeys are prodded with electricity to
frighten them into running, then roped fore and aft by two different
riders who stretch them out between the two horses.
Needless to say, the psychological and physical injuries that result are hideous.
GO HERE for the update and then go back to the post right before if you need more info. If enough people protest this horrible sport they will stop it. Shame is a powerful motivator. And maybe enough folks will stop and THINK about what it means to the donkeys.
No, this will not save all the donkeys in the entire world from this cruel fate. But for the donkeys lined up to be roped in this particular 'fiesta' it will mean the world.
This is what happy donkeys look like:
Needless to say, the psychological and physical injuries that result are hideous.
GO HERE for the update and then go back to the post right before if you need more info. If enough people protest this horrible sport they will stop it. Shame is a powerful motivator. And maybe enough folks will stop and THINK about what it means to the donkeys.
No, this will not save all the donkeys in the entire world from this cruel fate. But for the donkeys lined up to be roped in this particular 'fiesta' it will mean the world.
This is what happy donkeys look like:
Sunday, June 10, 2012
the magic of three
Three planets in the sky, earlier this year. I had planned a brief blog post as proof of barn magic.
This morning, husband away, I went out early and found Salina, who only yesterday looked so good I marveled at her swinging walk, flat out in the barn aisle, head and neck and withers right up to the barn aisle wall.
Two amazing, incredible teens and I managed to get her turned and calmed and one very special donkey boy, when I put down the ropes and said "maybe this is it," brought me a lead line and laid it at my feet and looked up at me saying without words but so very clearly "no, it is not! get her up!"
She got up. Vet came and proclaimed it Not That Time. Tweaked meds. Cleaned re-opened hip point wound. By the time the vet truck rolled out the Grand Old Mare was banging and whinnying for her breakfast.
We are grateful for every day. And I am thankful for barn magic.
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