New Jersey Rodeo Cancelled
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SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)
June 2016

Once they saw the flier however, Dream Park realized they were being mislead and cancelled the event! We want to sincerely thank Dream Park and the Gloucester County government for keeping to their word and for acting quickly and decisively to shut the cruel rodeo down. 

It was just over one year ago that SHARK investigator Stu Chaifetz went undercover at a Mexican-style rodeo held at the Dream Park in Gloucester County, NJ. The undercover video of the rodeo, which included bulls being mercilessly whipped and shocked with an electric prod, as well as rampant alcohol abuse, received major media coverage.

electro-shocking bulls
One of the bulls being violently electro-shocked

In the wake of the mass-condemnation of the rodeo, the Gloucester County Freeholders (who own Dream Park) agreed to not hold any more such events at their facility!

Last week we became aware that another rodeo was going to be held at Dream Park on June 18th. On Dream Park's official schedule it said that the event that night was to only to be “dancing,” but we had evidence that this was not the case. That evidence was the following flier advertising the event:

rodeo promo
Part of the flier we found promoting the "dancing" event. Note the bull riding images on the far left and bottom right

You can clearly see two images of men riding bulls on the flier, which means that while the event host was telling Dream Park this was only going to be a dance, they were secretly planning on holding a rodeo as well!

We immediately contacted Dream Park and were assured that their policy was still not to allow rodeos back at their facility. Once they saw the flier however, they realized they were being mislead and cancelled the event! We want to sincerely thank Dream Park and the Gloucester County government for keeping to their word and for acting quickly and decisively to shut the cruel rodeo down.

The bad guys almost got their way, but SHARK's vigilance stopped them in their tracks. 

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