Animal fighting

[RB TexLa]

[valerief]

1. Gross. nt

[mitchum]

2. I accompanied a law enforcement officer to a cockfight

He was there specifically to gather intelligence about alcohol violations

[bigwillq]

3. Neither (nt)

[Solly Mack]

4. Neither.

[Fla_Democrat]

5. Ahem

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098343/

[Kali]

6. Aside from the bulls and roosters fighting each other around here on thier own

I am pretty sure I was running around with a bunch of other kids at a rodeo a long time ago where there was also a cockfighting event going on off to the side behind the bleachers. It is a vague childhood memory and could be totally wrong, but the impression was of a small crowd of people watching some kind of "fight" and that there were "chickens" there. The setting is after dark with bare light bulbs on overhead wires - lots of kids of different ages running around - sort of rural animal fair feeling.

[Morning Dew]

7. I used to fight my dog quite often.

She was a cover and pillow hog.

:)

[madmax]

8. Neither and would never.

I find it revolting. I can't understand boxing either but, at least those who choose to engage in that type of 'sport' have a choice. The animals don't.

[flvegan]

9. I've raided a dogfighting kennel where fights took place.

Stole this girl while I was there (she could barely move, and if you look closely past all the scars, you can see that the lower part of the front of her face has been torn off)

[Kerrytravelers]

10. Absolutely not. And I can not imagine who would.

I have absolutely no space in my life for people who want to watch animals tear each other apart for "sport."

[Speck Tater]

11. There are cat fights up and down my block quite often. Does that count? nt.

[Arugula Latte]

12. Anyone human who promotes, propigates & participates in it should be

dropped in a vat of boiling oil.

[RB TexLa]

13. I agree with that on dog fighting, but that's not going to happen with cockfighting

[Texasgal]

20. Isn't cockfighting illegal?

I believe here in Texas it is.

[flvegan]

21. Yes, in all 50 states.

[RB TexLa]

22. The feds forced Louisiana to outlaw it last year or year before, but no one enforces it.

[LeftyMom]

23. It's illegal in every state.

The last holdout, iirc, was Louisiana. It's still legal in Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Guam.

[RB TexLa]

24. No one enforces the law against it in Louisiana

[LeftyMom]

25. The Louisiana State Police appear to disagree.

State Police bust alleged cockfighting ring

http://www.kplctv.com/global/story.asp?s=10011237

Posted: Mar 15, 2009 9:45 PM PDT Updated: Apr 08, 2009 1:56 PM PDT

By Lee Peck - bio | email

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Calcasieu Animal Services workers have been working nearly through the night to process more than 600 roosters that are believed to be a part of an illegal cockfighting ring.

"This is one of the biggest we've ever dealt with," said Diana Morales with Calcasieu Animal Services.

Morales and her crew were called out to Little Bayou Club after Louisiana State Police closed in on the operation Saturday afternoon off Willow Springs Road in Sulphur. We're told an estimated 200 cars were here when investigators arrived on the scene, more than a third had Texas plates. The bust comes 7 months to the day after a Louisiana law banning cockfighting was put into effect.

"The law was passed in 2007, then the cockfighters were given almost a year to get rid of their birds or do whatever they had to do because cockfighting is now illegal, obviously maybe these people didn't get the message," said Morales. (more at link)

[RB TexLa]

27. Oh, there were always certian cockfighting rings that were busted even before it

was outlawed.

Don't want to pay, you don't get to play.

[lukasahero]

14. Have never, would never

Would do everything in my power to stop any I knew about.

[DRoseDARs]

15. Cockfighting? Hmm, does foreplay count?

Ba-dump-bump :P

[Unvanguard]

19. When I first heard the term back in high school

I gave the speaker a strange look on exactly that interpretation.

[Thothmes]

16. Never went to a cock fight or dog fight

I have been to a bull fight in Spain and one in Mexico. Do not plan to ever attend another one.

[Unvanguard]

17. I have been to neither, will never go to either, and think both should be illegal. n/t

[Texasgal]

18. I'd never go to such a thing

ever.

[Deja Q]

26. I have never understood the fascination in observing animals fight to the death.

I don't even like wrestling.

I cringe when two Siamese fighting fish are plonked into the same tank and they start to shread each others' fins to ribbons.