The Padres say they've been assured the group running the 3-day event — the first rodeo ever at Petco — is focused on animal welfare
A three-day rodeo scheduled for Petco Park in January is prompting complaints about animal cruelty from the county Democratic Party and animal rights advocates. They are lobbying San Diego officials and the Padres to cancel the event, which would be the first rodeo ever at Petco and the first within the city since one at the sports arena in the 1980s. If the event isn't canceled, critics want the City Council to approve an ordinance banning the use of animal torture devices during rodeos.
Pease said the devices rodeos use to control animals — including electric prods, shocking devices, bucking straps, sharpened spurs, wire tiedowns and rowels — are torture devices. David Engel, a board member of San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action, told the City Council recently that rodeos are barbaric. 'Rodeos are inherently cruel to the animals forced to participate,' he said.
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