These people need to be reported yesterday.
Bullwhips are NOT meant for hitting animals. They are primarily used to make noise to direct herds of cattle. You could get the same result with a gunshot, but of course then you’d be wasting a lot of ammunition.
Cattle handlers don’t use bullwhips to hit the animals because the whip will damage the hide. A direct hit by a bullwhip can break human bones.
You can use a bullwhip to train a horse, but only in so far as you learn to crack it properly (and safely) in order to control the horse with the sound.
Many people are not aware the the crack of a bullwhip is actually a sonic boom. The force of energy going through a cracking bull whip actually breaks the sound barrier at a certain point in the cracking motion, and that’s what causes the sound.
That’s a lot of power for any living creature to be hit with.
Thank you. This happened today and my mother is reading this thread, so they will get reported first thing in the morning.
Makes me want to watch “Man From Snowy River” again. Boy that guy could ride.