I recall one of the episodes that did get shown had Satoshi have one his Tauros transferred to him for a competition, but I forget if they handwaved how he got it. They also were all seen grazing during one of his return home episodes between seasons.
state side never saw it because satoshi had a gun pointed at him
Which is hilarious, as the US censors have a reputation with being A-OK with violence and havinf problems with sexual content and the European ones being the other way around.