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Fur coats, sure. Jennifer Lopez's weird fox-hair eyelashes, take 'em. But not from our cold, dead, on-top-of-a-donkey hands will you pry this basketball, PETA.The animal rights organization is asking a Wisconsin high school to cancel a fundraiser featuring the sport, because the animals are pulled and shouted at when they don't want to play. Apparently they don't realize that's the whole point of donkey basketball: Donkeys don't do anything they don't want to do, so it's hilarious to watch your high school chemistry teacher try to get one to saunter around a basketball court for charity.
If that last sentence confused you because you're some kind of city folk that ain't never heard of no donkey basketball, don't worry -- we've got video after the jump of donkey basketball bloopers, probably edited by a high school student for class credit.
Do you really want to take the right to make donkey basketball videos for class away from America's children, PETA? Come on.
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Sunday 14 November
By Robin
I've played Donkey Basketball when I was a kid and it was a blast. None of the donkeys EVER got hurt and noone yelled or treated them mean. I'm an animal lover own horses, dogs, cats and I would have had a fit if anyone was mean to them, even as a kid.
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Sunday 14 November
By wjfraz
Sounds like asses trying to stop a charitable event. PETA folks have way too much free time on their hands. If they were working for a living instead of living on donations, like the folks on the corner with the will work for food signs, they wouldn't have time for this crap.
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Sunday 14 November
By Russ Secrest iii
I admire PETA and what they stand for, at the same time there did not seem to be any clear signs of abuse.Maybe they shouldn't stop it but make it donkey versus people they all looked to have around the same IQ? come on get off the donkey, for real use the brain god gave you people. Fundraisers are important.
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Sunday 14 November
By thesmartjuan
I think PETA should get their asses kicked! (Pun intended)
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Sunday 14 November
By pks29733steel
Peta is just like the donkeys...JACKASSES! Maybe someone will pour paint over a Peta member for annoying people wearing fur. Peta, if you don't want to wear fur, fine...but don't assult the person wearing them. What would happen if people wearing fur went to a Peta demostration and poured paint all over Peta members for being annoying? Those Peta fools would be screaming 'bloody murder'!!!
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Sunday 14 November
By John F.C. Taylor
Sometimes RETA has a valid point. Other times they do not. This is one of those other times. Focus on "sports" like cock fighting or dog fighting. That's REAL cruelty to animals.
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Sunday 14 November
By Angiebaby
Dear PETA,
I will wear fur and mink eyelashes any time I damn well please, so long as they come from reputable, responsible fur farms. As for the donkey basketball? I only wish I had a ticket to watch!
Signed,
Bite Me
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Tuesday 16 November
By Linda Gannon
Another example of the mentality that believes it is okay to torture and abuse animals if we are entertained! We are teaching our children the wrong values when we promote donkey basketball, rodeos, a circus etc.
Is it any wonder our children are becoming more callous in their treatment of animals and people.
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Sunday 14 November
By frmsdaughter2
I wonder if Peta members have children, teenagers especially do they ever yell at their children to clean their room, take out the trash etc. Yelling at them could scare them, hurt their feelings and/or might motivate the teenager to do something they DON'T WANT TO DO. People are members of the animal kingdom too! Peta should concentrate on taking care of/protecting our fellow humans from child abuse, starvation, lack of medical care these cruelties exists here in the United States as well as world wide and leave Donkey Basketball alone.
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Sunday 14 November
By jspfarm
People need to realise that these donkeys are trained to act the way they do- it is part of the show, these animals are not stupid by any means, they are trained to humiliate the riders, if you would look at the video some of them aren't even being ridden, they are being lead or guided, again, they are trained to do this. The entire show is planned out, if you were to see the show more than once you would find this very obvious. these animals are stars and are treated as such. They help people laugh at themselves for a change, help to teach us a little humility, how about PETA taking on the people out west who use donkeys and mules to carry lard-ass tourists through the mountains and canyons on tours in 90-100+ degree heat, that has to be some kind of cruel. PETA is nothing but a bunch of clueless whiners who are trying to force their beliefs on others. Kind of like our politiicians, if they want it we are supposed to accept it no matter what our feelings or desires.
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Sunday 14 November
By jamestaylorm
PETA murders 80% of the animals they take in and that's not cruel?
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Sunday 14 November
By bill mc grath
Tell these cowardly idiots to get out to the Saturday night dogfights in South Phoenix and elsewhere and forgot about ruining kids fun! These animals are harmed in NO WAY!!
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Sunday 14 November
By john
Looks like more harm to humans than donkeys, PETA your the jackass go back and watch dont just read than convict with no evidence.If thats the case than the circus,fairs,hollywood that exploits them for human entertainment,if you really read this it is for a fundraising event.The same people(peta)in the check out lines steaks,hamberger chickens,etc at the food stores and than complain about donkeys on a H.S.gym floor. PETA looking for a good laugh is their slogon.
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Sunday 14 November
By mallie
Looks to me like the humans are the ones on the receiving end of the abuse stick there... PETA needs to focus on issues that actually HURT animals and get off the bandwagon for this kind of silly stuff. Even if the donkeys don't like it, they're not being injured... gimme a break. I'd think harnessing them into a plow or loading them down with equipment and walking miles to a mine might qualify for PETA to come out of their offices and protest.... basketball? no...
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Sunday 14 November
By Mary
Just because this is the way it has "always been" doesn't mean it is right.... People have used this as fund raiser for over 70 years??? I hope humane beings have learned to be a little more humane in all those years.....
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Sunday 14 November
By jspfarm
You folks are as clueless as PETA. These animals are trained to preform, they enjoy it, if you were to see the show more than once you would see how obious this is. Watch the video closely, some of the animals aren't even being ridden, they are being lead or guided, they are trained to humiliate the participants, to teach us to laugh at ourselves, to teach us that we do not always have the upper hand. There is nothing cruel about this show in any way whatsoever. If anything it teaches pople to respect the animals and their intelligence.PETA should look at the practice of using donkeys and mules out west where they are are used to carry lard-butted tourists up mountains and through canyons in 90-100 + degree heat on sight seeing trips, now that has to be some king of cruel. Peta is much like our countries politicians, if they want something, they will twist and manipulate the facts in any way they can to get what they want.
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Sunday 14 November
By Leon Spaysky
Come on man, it's about the donkey not the kid's.
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Sunday 14 November
By Joebudgie
How is this any different from Polo Ponies or Horse Racing in it's effect on the animals? They all are performed in front of large noisy crowds and the animals do things they would not do if left alone in nature. You could say the same for anything that people do too for that matter. PETA should look into and protest how the papparrazzi treat stars of TV, Movies and Stage if they want to stop behavior that damages reputations and mental health to humans. PETA is a dinosaur in this day and age and needs to disband and get real lives. It's become an organization of unhappy people who "look" for trouble where there is none and aren't above manufacturing it if they can't find real problems.
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Sunday 14 November
By cambier lingua
Using animals for this type of stupidity is ridiculous and cruel. They can get hurt, they are frightened, it isn't nice or fair to the little guys. People are brutal, especially men. Where I live in Florida they have "dwarf tossing." In the South and other areas they have dog fighting. In Spain they still have bull fighting. Killing animals with big guns, hunters hiding in "blinds" with night scopes from a deer is no "sport" either.
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Sunday 14 November
By Tommy T
Sometimes it seems to me that by getting all enraged by something as trivial as donkey basketball, it changes a person's perception of PETA as a serious animal rights activist group to that of a collection of serious mental cases. Without donkey basketball games, what would local charities use to raise funds? Also, if donkey basketball were banned, wouldn't the donkeys wind up as dog food and glue products?
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