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Animal welfare groups have called animal deaths " depressingly predictable " and seek a boycott of the rodeo.

In the United Kingdom travel agencies have been asked to stop offering tourism packages to the Stampede, and in 2010, 92 members of the UK Parliament signed an Early Day Motion asking their Canadian counterparts to ban rodeo.

Several groups petitioned the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to cancel their planned attendance in 2011.

However, the couple attended and participated in a private demonstration of rodeo and chuckwagon events.