Sports: Cloverdale Rodeo Ending Many Events After Another Calf Dies
After increasing pressure and the death of a calf, the Cloverdale Rodeo is banning calf-roping at the annual event. As well, steer-wrestling, team-roping and wild cow milking events will end at future Cloverdale rodeos.
The city of Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts was also in attendance, and she expressed the council's support of the move to end the events at the rodeo. In 2004 a photographer from the Vancouver Humane Society captured the death of a calf during a steer-wrestling event. The film was later released to the general public.
Peter Fricker the Vancouver Humane Society Projects and Communications Director said, "I think this decision shows that the Cloverdale Rodeo is admitting what VHS, and the rest of the humane community, has been saying for over 20 years - that these events are explicit animal cruelty and there's no place for them in a progressive society."
The City of Vancouver recently prohibited rodeos within the city limits at the request of the Vancouver Humane Society.
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