Cock Fighting...

[Tonya]

Mike (my husband) just came home from work and told me all about cock fighting. He's lucky he didn't get his teeth knocked out.

Apparently, Pat (the one who has Teddy), lives next door to some hardcore cock breeder. Mike met the guy today. He makes over $300,000 a year selling fighting cocks to Mexico. He even has a special breed that looks female so the opposing cock usually freezes up and gets his butt kicked before he realizes it's a male...

My husband is so damn impressionable it's disgusting. He believes anything he hears. (Which sometimes works to my benefit. lol.) The guy has Mike convinced that it's humane because they clip their claws or whatever, so they win by knockouts, not death. "It's American style, not Mexican style; it's like a boxing match."

WTF? Do you really think that I want to hear about this? I told him he's an idiot and that he is strictly forbidden to talk to myself or anyone else about it. I let Mike know that if I ever meet the guy, he's getting a left hook from me.

I know it's immature to talk bad about my husband, but this really irked me. He listens to anything people say and it makes me so mad.

[wolfie]

When I was searching through my school library a while ago (in the animal section of course! ) I found an old book on cockfighting - it was really sick, it told you everything about fighting and preparing your chickens for the fight, ect. I have no idea why they had a book like that in a college library.

I'm sorry your husband believes it's humane. It totally isn't. It's like saying that dogfighting is humane if they break up the fight before a dog dies.

[Tonya]

Well, I was able to convince him that it was cruel easily. But it just ticks me off that it even crossed his mind that it might be humane.

[DJFyrewolf36]

I did a class assignment about Dog/cock fighting for a speech course about a year ago and what I found was majorly disgusting. Just because the chickens don't have claws doesn't mean they dont have other weapons (beaks being the obvious). Plus its been theorised (sp?) that the hormonal head trip two male chickens go into when they encounter another male is harmful and shortens life slightly because of the increase in blood pressure etc. In the course of a normal roosters life, he doesn't have daily disputes with other roosters unlike a fighting rooster. Seems to me that something like that could be harmful. Does anyone else know of any studies done on this subject? The info I got wasn't very clear or verifiable *like most internet sources*

[ramanth]

I don't know about CA but cockfighting is illegal here in MI. If you have Animal Planet, sit him down and hopefully an episode about it on Animal Cops would come up.

Anyone just watching the fight will be arrested during a raid.

Humane? Yeah.. they chop their toe off and replace it with a metal blade. That's humane.

Knock him upside the head Tonya.

[lv4dogs]

That is weird, here at work we have a trivial pursuit appoitment book & yesterdays ? was:

"what bloodsport was still legal in New Mexico, Oklahoma & Louisiana?"
Cockfighting (yup it is spelled as one word)

Now I have to look into it to see if it still legal in those places.

It is horrible & no fighting sport is ever "humane"

[Tonya]

It's illegal in California.

[RICHARD]

I used to fight my petcock....

It was really tough having to reach down between my legs and hassle with it while I rode my motorcycle.

[RICHARD]

just in case...

Petcock......

Definition: [n] regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining.



It's the on/off/reserve valve on a motorcycle gas tank...get your head out of the gutter!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

I find cock fighting just as inhumane/disgusting/WRONG as dog fighting.

Some people are just idiots. No offense to your husband. Why don't you show him how cruel it can be with websites, etc. (and pictures if you must.) Oh, and you can show him just how humane the 'American Style' is. Some people.

As for the breeder.....I'll keep my mouth shut. What goes around comes around.

[slick]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I used to fight my petcock....

It was really tough having to reach down between my legs and hassle with it while I rode my motorcycle.

Thanks for the explanation.

I wasn't going to cave to the pressure.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by slick
Thanks for the explanation.

I wasn't going to cave to the pressure.

The operative word there is SMALL.......


Richard.....OUT!!

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
I find cock fighting just as inhumane/disgusting/WRONG as dog fighting.

Some people are just idiots. No offense to your husband. Why don't you show him how cruel it can be with websites, etc. (and pictures if you must.) Oh, and you can show him just how humane the 'American Style' is. Some people.

As for the breeder.....I'll keep my mouth shut. What goes around comes around.

ditto

Tonya, Call the humane society on those idiots! Arghhhh! Why do people have to treat animals the way they do? Why?

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver


As for the breeder.....I'll keep my mouth shut. What goes around comes around.

Ditto! Cock fighting is sooooooooooooooooo cruel!

[mahayana]

Forgive me for boring you all with the vegetarian viewpoint, but I see cockfighting as less cruel than what happens to most chickens. At least one of the mini-gladiators has a chance of living another day. Next time you're holding a piece of fried chicken in your fingers, think what kind of life and death he or she faced. Most of them get overcrowded cages, constant medication and hormones, then electrocution and dismemberment.

It is humans getting all excited about death and betting on it which you are really objecting to.