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Originally posted by terrih:
Marisol,

Thank you for your efforts to comfort us following the cancellation of Matchbox 20 at Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD). But I just can't seem to get my head around this decision. After my husband and I saw mb20 at the Broomfield event center in March I regretted not taking my two sons (ages 11 and 15). What a great band, music with heart and what a show! When I heard a few days after the Broomfield show that mb20 was going to open at CFD I had my chance to fulfill my dream (taking my boys to see mb20). On Saturday when tickets went on sale, I sat at my computer and I counted down the seconds to buy (6) tickets to Mb20 to surprise my family. It paid off when I ended up getting front row tickets!! I danced around the house for days giggling and jamming to mb20, because I knew I had purchased the best tickets to see our favorite band ever! I never in my life had front row tickets! I gave my sons two tickets each for their spring birthdays allowing them to each bring friend.

I am originally from California, have been living in Fort Collins Colorado for the last 20 years and have never been to CFD. I purchased these tickets only to see mb20 and not any of the other events. I’m not a person who actively speaks out in opposition to the rodeo events but I simply choose not to support them by attending. Although I’m disappointed in your decision, I respect your convictions.

On April 10th, the day of my son’s 16th birthday, the news hit our newspaper that mb20 was canceling their CFD appearance I couldn’t believe it. Now I had to tell all of them that our tickets were no longer valid and we would not be going. It was the hardest thing to do. They seemed ok with it primarily because they knew by the look on my face and my puffy eyes that I was upset enough for all of them. They ended up comforting me instead of me comforting them. And now here I am four days later and I’m still upset, I can't seem to get over it!

Marisol – would it be possible for you to make this up to our family and get us front row tickets to the next show mb20 plays in Colorado?

“All we need is some relief from these hard times”

Your biggest fan,

Terri

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I'm sorry that You" are disappointed with the cancellation of the MB20 concert. I have adult children who are out in the world, and both have a passion for MB20, and they were the ones that turned me on to them. But, sometimes there are things bigger in the world more important than a concert, like perhaps the prevention of cruel suffering? Not attending the rodeo is a nice touch, but it is still going to happen. EndEndless suffering, pain and the animals have no voice to say..."STOP...YOUR HURTING ME." Consider the following:
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~Animal Rights & Welfare
~Animal Rights & Welfare
~People have to understand that the commandment, "Do unto others as you would do unto you" applies to animals, plants and things, as well as to people! and that if it is regarded as applying only to people..then the animals, plants and things will, in one way or another, do as badly by man as man has done by them.... - Aldous Huxley

~James Herriot on
Animal Protection
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us... I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside. - James Herriot in a television interview
I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must be that we will be kind and take care of their needs...[They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, or violate by cruelty.
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
If a farmer calls me with a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. - James Herriot on continuing his Veterinarian practice after becoming a best-selling author

~~ Kylli Koski on Animal Protection ~
Nothing justifies a cruel treatment of animals. Yet, constantly inconceivable cases of cruelty to animals are happening all the time. It's completely inexcusable to mistreat animals in order to entertain people, like in bullfights or cockfights.
I understand that in some cases you can defend animal experiments, but laboratory animals experience even unnecessary suffering. In factory farming, in piggeries, in poultry farms and mink farms it's often forgotten that animals are living creatures and must be treated well. Animals are kept in very tight cages without an opportunity to move freely about. How far back are those times when domestic fowl could freely waddle around in the courtyard.
In TV shows and elsewhere I have tried to spread information about cats people take just for a summer time. Unfortunately year after year kittens are abandoned when the fall arrives. Children should be taught from the beginning to treat animals with responsibility. If a family takes an animal, a cat, a dog, a hamster or any other pet it must be taken care of the animal for all of its life. An animal must never be left to the forest or by the roadside when taking care of it no longer appeals. If the family can't take care of their pet, they must find a new home for it or let a veterinary to put it to sleep. You must never cause unnecessary suffering to animals.

~Our Duty to Animals
There is no reason why our domestic animals should not be trained to help man, and to work in his service, so long as the work is not painful or excessive. But all the creatures around us should be trained in the way best for themselves; that is to say, we should always remember that their evolution is the object of the divine Will. So that while we should surely teach our animals all that we can because that develops their intelligence, we must take care that we instill into them good qualities and not evil.
We must see that we do not increase in our animal the ferocious qualities which it is the business of his evolution to get rid of. For example, a man who trains a dog to hunt and kill is intensifying within him the very instincts which must be eliminated if the animal is to evolve, and in this way he is degrading a creature given into his charge instead of helping him on his way ... The same thing is true of a man who trains his dog to be ferocious in order that he may be an efficient protector of his property.
Mankind has for so long treated animals cruelly that the whole animal world has a general feeling of fear and enmity towards men. Men have generated, in this way, an awful karma which comes back upon them in terrible suffering, in various forms of disease and of insanity. Yet, even after all this bad behavior on the part of man, few animals will harm him if let alone.
Charles W. Leadbeater, "Our duty to Animals" in The Inner Life

~Albert Schweitzer on Animal Welfare
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. - Albert Schweitzer to a ten-year-old boy
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it.
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
Whenever an animal is forced into the service of men, everyone of us must be concerned for any suffering it bears on that account. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted, even though he would be interfering in something that does not concern him. No one may shut his eyes and think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him is non-existent - Dr. Albert Schweitzer

~Albert Schweitzer's Prayers
The chief cause of pain to me wass the knowledge of the untold sufferings of animals. ... it seemed to be incredible - this was even before I was old enough to go to school - that I should include only human beings in my evening prayers. So when my mother had heard my prayers and kissed me good-night, I said secretly another prayer, which I had composed myself, for all living creatures: "Dear God, protect and bless all creatures that have breath; save them from all evil and let them sleep in peace and quietness." - Albert Schweitzer

~A PRAYER FOR ANIMALS by Albert Schweitzer:
Hear our humble prayer, O God,
for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering;
for any that are hunted or lost or deserted
or frightened or hungry;
for all that must be put to death.
We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity,
and for those who deal with them
we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.
Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals
and so to share the blessings of the merciful.


Pommawolf


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Originally posted by rodeoanimallover:
I am so dissapointed in your gullability. Animal rights harms more animals than it helps. Do your research. Animal welfare is what truly benefits animals and is highly practiced by the sport of professional rodeo; they care for their animals more than most care for their children.
SHARK is a one man show- an insane man at that and I am shocked and appauled that he so easily pursuaded you. The injury rate for rodeo is less than .001%.
I know one fan might be small- but you have lost this one.
Did you shun Ty Murray when you toured with Jewel? Isn't the mear presence of her on the same stage somewhat hypocrytical?