Tie-down roping is the most controversial of all rodeo events and the Vancouver Humane Society is trying to get Calgary's two major newspapers to run an ad condemning the event.
The Vancouver Humane Society wanted to run an ad that referred to calves as babies and cowboys as bullies.
The Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun chose not to run the ads.
The Sun says the ad was in poor taste and the Herald says the paper reserves the right to edit, revise or reject any ad.
The Stampede says the Vancouver Humane Society has every right to give its opinion on tie-down roping but they do everything they can to protect the safety of rodeo animals.
"The Alberta SPCA and the Calgary Humane Society are on par with us at every performance of the rodeo and the chuck wagons races and they are there to observe and if they see something wrong they let us know," said Stampede Spokesman, Doug Fraser.
Fast Forward Weekly says they will run the ad in this week's edition.
