ROGGEN, Colo. (KDVR) — This ranch looks a lot like that famous fictional ranch on television that is named after a national park. But the Cervi Ranch isn’t fictional — it’s the real deal.

Painful spurs and bucking straps are used to irritate normally docile cows and horses and provoke them into displaying "wild" behavior in order to make the "cowboys" look brave. Oversight of these ...

Photos: Hundreds brave snowy weather as livestock parade through Denver for National Western Stock Show “Bucking horses and bucking bulls are the animals that cowboys attempt to ride in a rodeo ...