PETA Tells Nevada School to Dump Donkey Basketball

Amen!! a big stink about absolutely nothing! some people need a life.

PETA is nothing more than a band of nutjobs that have no other goal in life than to try to distupt the natural flow of human nature. Idiots, one and all. They scream aloud for even the most inane things, but seem to be blind to the real issues of this world. I say forget them, and whatever they are crying about today. It will be something new tomorrow anyway. Maybe they will go after some little old lady who pets her cat a little too roughly...

A donkey..not too far removed from an ass.

PETA member...even closer

PETA is wacked! We played this years ago at my high school and had a BLAST!!! Nobody was Mean to the donkeys and the Donkeys
were not Mean to us. We were even hugging & petting them in between games. A Great Time was had by ALL :)

30 + years ago when I was in High School we played this every year. It was one of the most attended school functions and students and teachers were lined up to play each other. No person or animal was ever injured!! PETA start taking care of the animals that are really being abused, the ones people abandon on the streets or use to fight.

Doesn't PETA stand for People Eating Tasty Animals? Give me a brrak, it's only a silly game and the donkeys don't get harmed at all. I've been to these games before and the riders get thrown around and brused more than the donkeys.

This is all in great fun and does not hurt the donkeys. I have seen this on several occasions.

I COULDNT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!! PETA NEEDS TO KEEP THEIR "BEAK" OUT OF PEOPLES BUSINESS!

PETA does stay out of other "PEOPLES" business. Thank God that they are there to get into the animals business. A lot of animals have been saved from a life of cruelty because this organization got in their business!!!

hahaha.. I agree, most of PETA people are jackasses!! Cute comment!

PETA wants to stay out of people's business? WRONG. PETA wants you to stop eating your natural diet that includes meat because it's a perceived moral issue and PETA doesn't want you to have pets. Period. The End. They want you to treat animals like they are humans. Eat at the dinner table with silverware and all. I love animals in fact my major has to do with conservation of wildlife. Have you people never heard of polo? It's a sport played on horseback. It has all the same dangers as this would. PETA would crap their pants if they went to the UK. I believe in the end of animal cruelty but using the animal the way it is meant to be used (as in horses you ride, cattle you eat etc) is not cruel in any way. PETA is basically saying you can't let your child eat by themselves because they might stab themselves in their eye with the fork. Donkeys are socialized properly before being used for this kind of sport. They are used to people and they are used to noise. That dramatically cuts down on any risk for these kids. Get over it.

@Jessica

Why can't I have a cow I ride? I'd much rather ride a cow ^_^ (I really wish I was joking there.) But I agree fully as long as the animals are safe, and PETA leaves my natural dietary lifestyle alone...I'm a happy person. I suspect the Lion that eats the Zebra doesn't actually hate the Zebra, or intends cruelty...it's just hungry.

Since you know so much while knowing nothing of the game, allow me to educate you a little bit about it. The live animals that are brought in are treated better than many humans. They are well trained and the donkeys are in control. Some of them are trained that when they get a signal to go from the rider, they lay down instead just for one example. It can be very entertaining for the people who take the time to learn a little bit about the game and the reason for it. It is to make the donkeys the stars, not the people. That is why the owners/trainers of the donkeys get the percentage of money raised that they do. They don't just load up a bunch of donkeys from the pasture. That is also why it is not as dangerous as PETA would have you believe. These animals are trained to be performers.
Hopefully this may give some of you a reason to take another look at the game knowing a little bit more about it.

There's nothing wrong with Donkey basketball, as some mentioned before, the donkey's are trained and it's very entertaining. We did this in a small town in PA and it's the teachers against the senior class every year. And when the donkey "does its business" whoever was riding the donkey has to clean it up with the shovel on hand.

PeTA are liars. If PeTA told me the moon came out at night, I'd have to go look for myself. Animals are NOT the same as People. PeTA are nutjobs that fund domestic terrorism. "PeTA by day, ALF by night" PeTA wants everyone's pet dog to be liberated from it's cruel shackles of slavery to humans. PeTA are liars.

While I don't agree with everything PETA does, they do have a very good rule of thumb - be nice to animals. Riding a donkey on a noisy, hard, basketball court is not being nice - regardless of how well they're trained, fed, or kept off the court. Just because they can't speak up for themselves doesn't mean it's okay to do whatever you want. I hardly think this is enjoyable for them (would you want to be ridden around like this? I'm hoping you answer "no....") -- and using an animal like this to get your jollies really is pretty messed up, anyway. Go have your fun, do what you want to yourselves, but leave the animals out of it.