10 Reasons Why The Rodeo Should Be On Your Bucket List

The annual Houston Rodeo started this week and this is what you're missing...

1. Hot Chicks Milking Goats

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There's such a thing as a 'Celebrity Goat Milking Contest' where you can see Houston's local radio and TV personalities squeezing the teets of goats to see who can extract the most milk.

2. Food on a Stick

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Because dammit, food tastes better when it's on a stick...

Especially chocolate-dipped cheesecake-on-a-stick

And pizza-on-a-stick.

3. Mutton Bustin'

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Seriously, where else can you let your kid ride on a mutton

4. Baby Animals

Get your fill of cute overload in the birthing center where you can actually watch animals giving birth and see newborn animals like these day-old piglets.

5. Taking Shots from an Ice Luge

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Open wide and say "aaaah!"

6. Barbeque

Real Texas Bbq. Needs no explanation.

7. Cowboy Fantasies

8. Or Cowgirl Fantasies if that's your thing...

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Ride that bull, honey...

9. Bacon.

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Where else can you get a donut bacon cheeseburger?

Or chocolate-dipped bacon for that matter...

10. Southern Hospitality

It's real.