Here's the link to the site:  http://www.houstonhumane.org/

Here's the link to the page that has the surgeries listed:
http://www.houstonhumane.org/spay.aspx#surgeries

Hugs,

CatNipped

    Doesn't happen that way.  A flank strap is *nowhere* near a
bull's testes -- they're dangling much father back.

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I haven't heard of this being done for quite some time. It went out of style
with dog training techniques that were so abusive the dogs couldn't start
training until they were 6 months old. If any rodeo still does this, they
should be reported.
The more modern way is to use a bucking strap, which is just plain irritating
to the animal (like a tight shirt collar or belt is on you). It's nowhere
near their testicles.

Most bulls don't need any help bucking. They just plain don't want to be
ridden. If you watch rodeos at all, you'll see that most bulls don't even
have bucking straps on (the rope is around the bull's chest similar to where
a girth is on a tacked-up horse and it's just there so the rider can hold on
to something) and they stop bucking the minute the rider is thrown (they may
chase the guy, though, which is always fun to see -- bull REVENGE <LOL>).

It's the horses that sometimes don't want to bother. You can tell they have
"help" when they keep bucking AFTER the rider has been thrown. Some horses
will buck with little "encouragement", though. I think those kinds of horses
find it fun to watch a rider land in the dirt. Note that many horses used in
rodeos have been trained to buck.

A properly done bucking strap doesn't harm the animal in any way. Only
abusive people make the straps hurt the animals. It's like prong collars or
remote training collars on dogs -- done right by an educated person, they're
a great tool. Done wrong, they can become abuse. That can be said of a great
many training tools. It's not the tool, it's the person using it. Even a
"gentle leader" could be used to hurt a dog if the person holding the other
end were of a cruel nature.

/ not anti-rodeo per se; just anti-abusive rodeos

I think we ALL need to do this.  I do recall when I was scheduling
Mingy's neutering, they asked whether I wanted to have him
declawed too.  Thank goodness, I had read about that and knew I
most certainly did not.  I protested, and they still were under
the impression that this was just a fine thing to do.  I really
need to find out whether they have wised up in the meantime.

Hugs back at you!