The incident was captured on video. He tried to stand, but his leg was too severely broken.
A bull was severely injured during a Professional Bull Riders (PBR) traveling show held at George Mason University’s EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia in late September. The bull fell immediately, crushing his back right leg, after bursting out of the chute with a rider on his back. The injured bull tried in vain to stand. A man on a horse lassoed the bull around the neck, and as the bull struggled, the rope tangled around his legs. Within a few seconds the bull’s leg appeared to have multiple fractures and hung limp from his body. He collapsed helplessly to the ground and was then dragged from the arena by the rope tangled around his legs and neck.
Tragically, injuries like the one captured in this video are common in this industry. Rodeos and similar events use painful tools like electric prods, spurs and “bucking straps” to make cows and other animals exaggerate behaviors, and in a way that is unnatural, unsafe, and inherently inhumane.
