“The Solace of Open Spaces: Rules of the Game: Rodeo” is an essay by Gretel Ehrlich , is about how people who do not live in the ranching lifestyle think that rodeo animals are treated cruelly. Many people who have not been around livestock in their life think that people are beating the animals in to bucking and this all that they do, which is not true. The stockmen has been selectively breeding for years based on the fact the animal loves to buck. Bucking stock do not live that hard of lives, they work between two to fifteen times per year depending on how well they perform. The bucking bulls and horses spend about one minute each time when they are in the arena, so if they are good they will spend about fifteen minutes each year in
