Brain Freeze! Rodeo Question...

[dr_mabeuse]

What's that called, those rodeo cowboys who rope a calf from a horse and then jump down and hogtie it? It's something like bulldogging but I don't think that's it.

---dr.Z

 

[cloudy]

Yep, that's it! Also known as calf-roping, or calf-tying.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Bulldogging. That's the word I am most familiar with.

 

[Guest]

Bulldogging

Ooh, it sounds naughty when you say it, Colly. P.

 

[shereads]

Re: Bulldogging

Ooh, it sounds naughty when you say it, Colly. P.

Sounded kind of interesting when Dr. M said it, too.

Roping something, Doctor?

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Bill Pickett invented the sport of bulldogging near the end of the 1800s and introduced it to the world as a part of his act in the 101 Wild West Show in 1905. His version of the sport was performed on longhorn steers. After having grasped the horns of the fleeing animal, he would twist its head skyward and bite its upper lip in order to subdue it, after the fashion of the cowdog breed known as bulldogs. This is where the sport got its name. Pickett died at age 70, after having been kicked in the head while working horses at the 101 Ranch.

Writing another masterpiece dr?