Philadelpia (Neshoba County) MS is a diverse balanced community located in East Central Mississippi.   Its citizens are especially proud of  their  “Neshoba County Coliseum”,  a modern indoor arena located just North of town

Sadly,   the Neshoba County Coliseum will host the “Heart Of Dixie”  “Big Lick” Tennessee Walking Horse Show”  on Saturday,  March 13, 2021.This show will feature “Big Lick” Tennessee Walking Horses (25 of 30 classes) wearing approximately EIGHT POUND SHOES,   and CHAINS will hit the sensitive skin above the horses hooves making them step high with their front legs.

“The ‘Big Lick’ is a pain induced gait,”  says Equine Vet Dr. John Haffner,  Horse Science Professor at MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University),  “It is a business based on the suffering and pain of Horses".

U. S. Congressman Michael Guest (R-MS),  who represents Philadelphia and Neshoba County,  happens to agree with Dr. John Haffner because on July 25, 2019,  Rep. Guest voted “YES” to pass the “U.S Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial PAST ACT” to abolish “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty forever.   The bipartisan landslide vote (78%) was 331 to 96.   Rep Guest congressional district includes Miss. State University at Starkville, MS where the Vet College is located.

http://billygoboy.com/2019/08/10/the-united-states-house-of-representatives-casts-historic-vote-to-end-big-lick-animal-cruelty-to-tennessee-walking-horses/

This shocking video  - "Here's What Soring Does To Horses" -  exposes the “Big Lick” Tennessee Walking Horse Racket as ANIMAL CRUELTY.    The video has been viewed over 16 MILLION TIMES (16,500,000)  times since being released on March 7, 2017.   “Soring” is the illegal and cruel practice of using chemical and mechanical methods to create pain in a gaited show horses front feet to exaggerate their animated step."

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1606891339327953/

Unfortunately,  Philadelphia (Neshoba County) MS will be associated with the stigma of “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty as long as it hosts this “Big Lick” Tennessee Walking Horse Show.  The “Big Lick” horse show is being brought to the Neshoba Coliseum at Philadelphia by a person who lives in South Mississippi.   She was  holding the show at “The Magnolia Center” at Laurel (Jones County) - about 30 minutes from her home. 

Then, in 2018,  local newspaper ads were run,  and a Change.Org Petition by the Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty to cancel it gained over 10,000+ signatures from all over America and around the world.  Consequently, the show was not held in Laurel in 2019, and it was brought to Philadelphia in 2020

MISSISSIPPI SAYS “NO” TO BIG LICK ANIMAL CRUELTY

In March 2015,  the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)  in Jackson, MS,  severed all ties with the Mississippi Charity“Big Lick” Horse Show held at the State Coliseum.    UMMC  refused to accept a $50,000.00 annual donation to its Children’s Hospital from the Mississippi Charity Horse Show due to its featuring “Big Lick” TWH Animal Cruelty.  

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/03/05/ummc-accept-charity-horse-show-donations/24466347/

The Jackson “Big Lick” Horse Show no longer exists.

Philadelphia (Neshoba County) MS is too fine a place, and simply does not need “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty on display at its beautiful “Neshoba County Coliseum”.

Please SIGN and SHARE this Petition.

Your Signatures and Comments will be delivered to Philadelphia (Neshoba County) MS officials.

 WE, The People” – CCABLAC (Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty)  

Horses do not have a voice, so we protest for them.

Here is the “Story of CCABLAC (Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty …

https://www.facebook.com/BillyGoBoy/videos/1143804862409275/​

https://youtu.be/MuKWcqUdZbc

The Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty (CCABLAC)  is a “WE, The People” grassroots movement founded in Mississippi.  CCABLAC advocates (primarily Southerners) have peacefully assembled and protested against Animal Cruelty to “Big Lick” Tennessee Walking Horses from the Gulf of Mexico at Panama City Beach, FL;  to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC; thoughout Tennessee and all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. where over 100,000+ signatures against the “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty were delievered.   In 2019,  CCABLAC led the effort to obtain a bipartisan vote in the U. S. House of Representatives – 333 to 96 - to abolish the “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty forever.