Source: By Shelby Sebens as published by Fox News
“Oregonian Dave Duquette Will Have to Find Another Way to Torture Horses before throwing them on his BBQ!” ~ R.T.
Put down that lasso, Oregonians. With a new year comes new laws. One of those is a ban on horse tripping.
The need to ban horse tripping will likely strike those outside Oregon as odd, but here it was widely controversial. After much debate, the Legislature passed a law that bans intentional horse tripping — tripping the horse by its front legs when it is moving fast and done for entertainment — not when it’s done for medical purposes or normal horse management, and the horse is first roped around the neck.
The bill in its original form sparked an outcry from rural Oregonians who saw it as an attack from outsiders in the Portland metropolitan area. Even after it was amended to target intentional horse tripping, it sill got a few nay votes.
The law, like many others, takes effect this month.
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Looking at it from a distance…it appears cruel as hell! What idiot would want to hurt his horse? Then you see the pictures of the compound fractures and it makes me think people like good ole Dave have the BBQ all warmed up
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Horse Tripping is perhaps the worst form of horse torture other than slaughter. Horses who are tripped and survive to be rescued take years to trust humans. It is horrendous and ugly. Thank God for Oregonians and their new law. One step at a time, humans are beginning to develop respect for other sentient beings. May those steps hurry up.
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Here in CA. it’s against the law but those backyard rodeo still happen more than I want to think about and there’s proof of at the local Auction every 2nd Saturday of the month. Although I didn’t think it could be worse than the tripping until I asked a guy whether or not he had a reserve (keeps them above meat price so no Kill Buyer get them) on his young and handsome Arab stud he said no he had 8 horses and needed to get rid of some and he was to tall for what we do ya know “Mexican Rodeo”?? I of course thought he meant tripping and corrected me and said no we ROPE THEIR TAILS!!!! Oh well sure having your tail ripped out of socket while some Jackass in a hat ropes it sounds much better than going head over end, right????
IDIOTS!!!
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Yes, and they also have donkey roping which tears their hides off and breaks their necks as well. The cruelty of the third world lives in America….
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These people will also split hairs on the meaning of “intentional” tripping – I’m soooooo tired of these 3rd world idiots invading our country & inflicting their “culture” of torturing animals for entertainment on the animals & the rest of us!!
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I just got a charity bid for this. Never heard of it before. What kind of people would do this type of thing? I think they should be tied by the neck and tripped, dragged and left to die. They are not worthy to live in society that is supposed be civil and lead other countries.
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20-20 carried a spot on horse tripping a decade ago. They showed a mare with her foal being chased into a wall that she nor the foal could negotiate. Such cruelty is unimaginable but happens within these “rodeos”. Thankfully, there are some laws in place now but too late for many of them.
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It is too late for many of our beloved horses and other animals, but never too late to do something for those that remain and are to come.
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About time this is stopped…like really, it is 1014 what sort of society do we have here?
And exactly who would vote against banning this? They need a good hard slap!
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sorry, 2014
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YEAH !!!!!! and huge sigh of relief !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE !!!!!!
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I am dumbfounded. I had never heard of this until now. This is an horrendous practice and I cannot believe that in this day and age it is still allowed. What sort of troglodytes organize these events? I am utterly disgusted with humans. Relieved it is coming to a stop.
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They should now pay damages to the.advocate that was violently arrested! Duqutte is on the Right end of the Horse this time! Right kick, left kick, Pow!
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These same types of people also are pro slaughter,wild horse round ups, cock fights,dog fights etc.and anything else that they can do to cause terror,pain and suffering to animals. And they do it all under the guise of property rights.
And their freedoms to do anything they wish to an animal for food,entertainment and just plain sadist pleasure.
I hate to bring up religion because that is today somehow being outlawed.But if there is any possibility that there is retribution for our acts after death and there is such a thing as a soul in living beings then perhaps even if justice is not served in life it will be in death.
I read a quote that I don’t remeber exactly who it was from but It said something like ” If your life flashes before your eyes right before you die.Make sure it is worth watching”
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This is WHY the King Amendment needs shot down and stepped on!
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I cannot believe humans are capable of this, I really can’t.
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I don’t understand anyone who would find entertainment in anything like this, or roping donkeys – what kind of mentality finds this fun? Maybe the same kind that has to get bigger & bigger “kicks” out of hurting something that can’t defend itself. I used to watch rodeos on tv – don’t anymore. The callous attitude towards animals – horse tripping – donkey roping – bear baiting – dog fighting – wild horse roundups – what kind of human enjoys this?
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I call them “Horse Haters”.
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I’ve started the petition “Utah State Legislators: Ban the practice of horse tripping in the State of Utah.” and need your help to get it off the ground.
Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here’s the link:
http://www.change.org/petitions/utah-state-legislators-ban-the-practice-of-horse-tripping-in-the-state-of-utah
Here’s why it’s important:
Horse tripping is a dangerous sport that has a high chance of injury to the horse that is being roped and tripped. The practice is banned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association (PCRA), the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), and twelve (12) states.
You can sign my petition by clicking here.
Thanks!
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Signed & commented on. I do wish I had more faith that all of our petitions against this & other forms of the cruelty that is practiced against horses & other animals were doing more good. But I’ll continue signing – nonetheless. I do have to add that I’m surprised that AQHA is against horse tripping since they are all for horse slaughter – after all – the cruelty & brutality is the same for both.
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Consciousness is not a solely human trait. The sentience we claim is highly suspect in light of how we treat the fellow creatures who make our world possible.
For those who have not seen it yet, here’s the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. Please do pay it forward, this is hard science not hand wringing:
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness*
On this day of July 7, 2012, a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in human and non-human animals. While comparative research on this topic is naturally hampered by the inability of non-human animals, and often humans, to clearly and readily communicate about their internal states, the following observations can be stated unequivocally:
The field of Consciousness research is rapidly evolving. Abundant new techniques and strategies for human and non-human animal research have been developed. Consequently, more data is becoming readily available, and this calls for a periodic reevaluation of previously held preconceptions in this field. Studies of non-human animals have shown that homologous brain circuits correlated with conscious experience and perception can be selectively facilitated and disrupted to assess whether they are in fact necessary for those experiences. Moreover, in humans, new non-invasive techniques are readily available to survey the correlates of consciousness.
The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. In fact, subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important for generating emotional behaviors in animals. Artificial arousal of the same brain regions generates corresponding behavior and feeling states in both humans and non-human animals. Wherever in the brain one evokes instinctual emotional behaviors in non-human animals, many of the ensuing behaviors are consistent with experienced feeling states, including those internal states that are rewarding and punishing. Deep brain stimulation of these systems in humans can also generate similar affective states. Systems associated with affect are concentrated in subcortical regions where neural homologies abound. Young human and non- human animals without neocortices retain these brain-mind functions. Furthermore, neural circuits supporting behavioral/electrophysiological states of attentiveness, sleep and decision making appear to have arisen in evolution as early as the invertebrate radiation, being evident in insects and cephalopod mollusks (e.g., octopus).
Birds appear to offer, in their behavior, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy a striking case of parallel evolution of consciousness. Evidence of near human-like levels of consciousness has been most dramatically observed in African grey parrots. Mammalian and avian emotional networks and cognitive microcircuitries appear to be far more homologous than previously thought. Moreover, certain species of birds have been found to exhibit neural sleep patterns similar to those of mammals, including REM sleep and, as was demonstrated in zebra finches, neurophysiological patterns, previously thought to require a mammalian neocortex. Magpies in
particular have been shown to exhibit striking similarities to humans, great apes, dolphins, and elephants in studies of mirror self-recognition.
In humans, the effect of certain hallucinogens appears to be associated with a disruption in cortical feedforward and feedback processing. Pharmacological interventions in non-human animals with compounds known to affect conscious behavior in humans can lead to similar perturbations in behavior in non-human animals. In humans, there is evidence to suggest that awareness is correlated with cortical activity, which does not exclude possible contributions by subcortical or early cortical processing, as in visual awareness. Evidence that human and non- human animal emotional feelings arise from homologous subcortical brain networks provide compelling evidence for evolutionarily shared primal affective qualia.
We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non- human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”
* The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low and Christof Koch. The Declaration was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, UK, on July 7, 2012, at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Human and non-Human Animals, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Low, Edelman and Koch. The Declaration was signed by the conference participants that very evening, in the presence of Stephen Hawking, in the Balfour Room at the Hotel du Vin in Cambridge, UK. The signing ceremony was memorialized by CBS 60 Minutes.
Click to access CambridgeDeclarationOnConsciousness.pdf
http://fcmconference.org/
http://www.livescience.com/39481-time-to-declare-animal-sentience.html
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Dear Icyspots, what the heck did i just read ??? cant you sum that up??????
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The scientific community declared virtually all non-humans animals have the neurological basis we attribute to forming consciousness. In short, we are not the only ones “wired” for conscious behavior but in fact, we are the farthest thing from being unique in this. Virtually all life shares what were formerly thought to be only human characteristics, nothing new to anyone who shares a life with animals, but significant because it is hard science put forth by highly reputable researchers.
In my view this is as significant as telling people the world is no longer flat. No doubt it will engender as much flak, but over time the truth will overcome our ignorance.
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I know of animal communicators who will not try to communicate with a deceased animal because they do not believe that animals have souls. Fortunately, the majority of animal communicators talk to deceased animals all the time. The proof is in the pudding.
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Thank You Icy read it three times , heheheh thanks we all have experienced all of that….. in all of our animals , !!!! had a German Shepard he used to read my mind all time…….. He loved the SUV wanted to go everywhere with me used to go in my purse and take my car keys to insure that if i was going anywhere he would go with me !!! he would lay on the Keys !!!!!
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But who’s going to enforce these new laws? When that guy from SHARK got harassed from the cops it speaks very loudly about no enforcement.
I see this as a good law on the books but totally unenforceable.
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Margaret, this got me thinking about Peter Gabriel’s organization called WITNESS, which provides low cost cameras to people in the developing world to use to quickly film abusive situations as they happen. It seems the answer here to the SHARK representative getting targeted is to have more people show up with cameras, smart phones or whatever. Imagine if there were 100 people sitting at that same rodeo, filming a public event. This story would look a bit different in the media.
So if anyone is contemplating attending such an event, take your friends – and spread out! Had this happened here, the SHARK fellow might have had the benefit of someone else filming what happened to him there.
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Good ideas, IcySpots. I volunteered to work for SHARK until my husband put his foot down and said he did not want me to. I have a sore shoulder and problme hip. Not a good reference for this kind of work. The pro-cowboys target anyone with a camera and intimidate them. They stand in front of them and call them out. Some investigators are arrested because in these Rodeo towns the police are often in cahoots. Now if there were enough people doing the same photographing, they probably could not do that, but I can’t get my good friends to sign petitions much less fink on a rodeo.
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Reblogged this on Donkey Whisperer Farm Blog and commented:
Thank GOD Oregon Has Stopped This Abuse!
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Thank GOD Oregon has stopped this abuse of horses for greed.
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Whats the worst is that we as a society have been bullied for so long to actually believe this is ok, they hid the worst of it from public view for the most part, and some communities, it was very “normal”, but now that we have a voice together..they can’t stop us 🙂 we will right these wrongs for the animals 🙂
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Reblogged this on redemptionforanimals.
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So glad this is being stopped, at least in Oregon. It makes one wonder, are there people who literally stay up at night and think of how much more they can hurt and cruelly mistreat animals, such as horses? I cannot fathom how anyone would find this humane or amusing in the least.
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Signed the petition and commented: Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is the human infliction of suffering or harm upon non-human animals, for purposes other than self-defense or survival.
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Oregon resisted having this law passed not because rural Oregonians were fighting back against “stupid townies.” The main reason for the fight against laws outlawing any cruelty here in Oregon is the large ( including undocumented) immigrant population – their culture not only permits these things but celebrates them. IMO if you want to come to this country you’d better accept that most Americans do not tolerate animal abuse and park your cultural evils at the border. But there are many who employ large numbers of undocumented workers here in Oregon and even though the employers likely couldn’t care one way or another personally about animal cruelty of the south-of-the-border variety, they don’t want to stand in the way of the workers few “enjoyments.” And worst of all are the rogue rodeos (unsanctioned ones) who cater to the legal or illegal south of the border crowd – those rodeo operators are the ones screaming the loudest against animal protective laws. Even though Oregon is slowly passing better animal protection laws, they are not being enforced. Law enforcement either looks the other way, buries the complaints in the circular file, or actively pushes back against those who want to file animal cruelty complaints.
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Yes, SarahKate, we have the same problems in southern CA.
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Looks like we will have to ban horse tripping in every state that doesn’t have it banned as now it is Utah, please everyone sign the petition to stop it in Utah Now. Which is on Facebook now. thanks
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Elaine is horse tripping banned in South California? Horse tripping is absolute abuse of the horses, no doubt about it and has to stop! But yes dog fighting cock fighting are still being done illegally.
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Outlawing Horse Tripping
On August 26, 1994, California Governor Pete Wilson signed into law a bill banning the intentional tripping of horses for entertainment or sport. The bill was supported by numerous groups including the California Veterinary Medical Association, the American Horse Protection Association, the California Council of Police and Sheriffs, the California District Attorney’s Association, the Great American Cowboy Association, and breeder and racing associations. Hispanic organizations also endorsed the legislation. The banning of intentional horse tripping for entertainment does not end the Mexican charreada tradition, merely the 3 events involving an act which inflicts needless suffering on animals.
Horse-tripping is so cruel that it has been banned in other U.S. states, California, Florida, Illinois, Maine, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, in film and TV production, by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), and by the American Quarter Horse Association. As of this writing, the practice has spread to Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado (where it has been a part of their state fair rodeo program) and the eastern region of Washington state.
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In reply to your question, Shirley, I have posted the above data. However, these practices die hard and it is my understanding that it does take place in CA secretly, nevertheless. It is difficult to keep track of as organizers hold their own rodeos which are mostly attended only by those who get pleasure out of hurting horses and the word is spread within that circle. They are shut down regularly, however, and I cannot tell you how serious the situation is today. I could ask some of the guys at the feed stores. They usually know, but I suspect it is not frequent these days. I would hope that we could find ways to educate people particularly in the schools that animals and particularly horses are sensitive and sentient.
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Education needs to include natural horse starting versus the use of pain to “break” horses, the use of spurs, whips, high energy feeds like corn, and cruel equipment. It takes time, but there is a slow change taking place – just not sure it has made it to the places where it is most needed. A lot of horse owners still dominate instead of relate.
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