Singer Sheryl Crow is being criticized by a national animal rights group for participating in a Wyoming rodeo.
Sheryl Crow performing at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007
Image courtesy Truejustice
The singer did a concert in connection with Cheyenne Frontier Days planning to donate part of the proceeds to a wild horse protection group that’s suing the government to try to halt a big mustang roundup in Nevada.
But Showing Animals Respect and Kindness claimed that wild horses are abused at that event in a special race just for them. The group called on the Cloud Foundation to reject the donation.
That criticism is reported to be unjustified because rodeos are prohibited under the 1971 federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act from using mustangs removed from the range by the government.
Ms Crow has adopted a wild horse and contributes time and money to protect the wild mustangs and keep them on public lands
A spokesman for Crow agent John Marx at the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills, Calif., referred inquiries to Crow’s publicist, who did not respond to an email.
The Cloud Foundation is trying to win an emergency injunction to block the federal Bureau of Land Management’s roundup of 1,700 mustangs scheduled to begin this weekend along the Nevada-Utah line.
A hearing on the request is scheduled Thursday, July 14th in U.S. District Court in Reno.