Put an end to cruel animal fighting!

[gibbrishclown]

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/...ng/explanation

Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to vote on the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act (H.R. 137/S. 261) to crack down on illegal dogfighting, cockfighting, and hog-dog fighting. Let your Representative and Senators hear from you today about this important legislation!

[Reediculous]

Humans are the most vicious beings on earth! spare your animal the fight....if you want to see a fight, put yourself in the ring with a Hugh Grizzly Bear, and pull the hair around his belly button!..............now you'll see how it feels!


Disgusting!

[Ginevive]

I am all for the prohibition. Animal fighting is a practice that has No merit, no meaning, and is just plain cruel. There are no shades of gray.

[gibbrishclown]

My friend's daughter sent me this video as a comment on Myspace... it's heart breaking and it's rather graphic...

I really don't understand what brings people to believe that this sort of behavior is ok... I will say that I thought for a long time that hog dogging was like hunting wild boar... it isn't it's much more like using a hog as bait to train a pit fighter IMO...

My soul mate is a "game bred" pit bull who is just the most wonderful thing in my world... Proof has helped me break up a 2 on 1 dog fight, has protected my cats from other dogs who think it's ok to chew on them, she's socialized my foster kittens to dogs and helped me teach the new puppy how to meet kitties... She's my once in a lifetime dog~ that one you NEVER forget and nobody can ever compare to! I got her in a Burger King parking lot because the guy didn't like "a whole bunch of people knowing' where he lived... the dogs were covered in feces and wounds, they just stunk! They were wild eyed and very timid. The guy said they'd be fine bait dogs, and I took them both! The sister was placed with a friend because I lived in an apartment, and Proof and I began our journey... she was a real train wreck at first, fearful to the point of aggression with men, sick, full of parasites, bad nails... etc... she still has really bad nails (really bad- and so does the new pup who looks just like her... from unknown origins found chained to a cinder block behind an abandoned house...) but her behavior towards men has done a full 180

[gibbrishclown]

Update: the House passed the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act overwhelmingly, 368 to 39!

Go here to see how your Rep voted:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll188.xml

Pressure is still needed on Senators. Here's the list of Senate cosponsors of the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdque...10:SN00261:@@@P

If your senators are on it, contact them and thank them. If they aren't on it, ask them to please support the bill.

((Crossposted))

[Snakeman]

you'd be surprised how the poeple in my area are on this.all they care about are people/animals fighting. if i ever tell them about my tarantulas/snakes, they tell me if i ever put any 2 of them together and make them fight.oh i could punch their lights out for that.also whenever there's a fight at my old high school,instead of separating the kids or something, they gather in a cirlce and watch the fight.

[Phreak]

Although pit bulls are illegal where I am now I would love to eventually own one and the only thing stopping me is my allergies to dogs. I can't stand the thought of animal fighting and would love to hear that animal fighting is illegal world-wide but until then we can only hope for the best and do all we can.

[Sausage]

Thanks for sharing that video. Its sad but true.

[daniel1983]

I really don't see the reason for the bill since most states outlaw those practices anyway....pretty much redundant at this point....the government should be focused on more important issues....like maybe the soldiers that are dying overseas?

I have grown up in Louisiana my entire life. Louisiana is also one of the only two states in the US that still allow cockfighting. I grew up in an area with a cockfighting ring right down the road. It is part of the 'culture' in this area. I also have seen a local faculity where they process chickens for food (one of my buddies worked there for sometime).

Just for those who do not know the 'mechanics' behind cockfighting and 'farmed' chickens.....let me give you the basics.

People that fight roosters in this area generally keep chickens for eggs/meat in a 'farm-ish' setting. Because cockfighting is generally related to gambling money, the keepers take very good care of the animals. The roosters get the best feed and care out of all the chickens in the yard. Since roosters will instinctually fight when placed with another rooster, no training is required (unlike most dog fights); however, I have seen roosters exercised and 'practice' fight (they put pads over the spurs so the animals are not injured). The fight rolls around. The roosters are fitted with 'artifical' spurs which are similar to little metal daggers. These are used because if they weren't, the roosters would fight for a very long time and end up just getting severly injured and suffer. With the metal spurs, the fights are not drawn out and the loosing rooster dies quickly.

In a chicken 'factory', the chickens are placed in small cages from the time they are young and fed steriod rich diets to increase their size rapidly. These cages are so small that the chicken may actually 'grow into' part of the cage by the time the 'harvest' comes around. When the caged chickens are harvested, they are placed upside down (their legs are latched into these clips) on a 'conveyor' (the chickens are so large that they really can't put up much of a fight). The conveyor carries the chickens across an electrified vat of water that kills the chickens. Then the chicken is processed to be packaged as food.

With that in mind, how is cockfighting any less humane than the processes used to raise and kill chickens for food? Besides the fighting aspects, the majority of the fighting roosters that I have seen are treated like kings.

Although I am not a supporter of fighting animals......If I was a chicken, I would sign up the cockfighting life over being 'farmed' any day of the week.

It is odd to me how some people will label one thing as 'wrong', but seem to lack concern over other things that are so similar. Chickens are killed in both processes....but the government has issues with one, not the other.....why? because they can't get their cut of the illegal gambling revenue from cockfighting but they can get policical support and taxes from chicken farmers? or is it just their general concern for the welfare of the animals?

I just can't bring myself to deny people their right to do something simply because I think it is wrong...especially when I support something so similar by buying chicken to eat.

....just another ramble. I seem to be in the mood for these today.

oh ya....and that cockfighting ring that was right down the road. Some animal rights activists burned the building down...... about 100 chickens were still inside......go figure.

[Entropy]

Thanks to the morons who breed pit types for fighting they are illegal in far too many places now.
In the future I see the US having laws akin to Italy, Corgis are illegal in Italy (if you are a child or have ever been accused of a crime)... this rant should be elsewhere so I'll step down.

But I have to say that just because it's illegal doesn't mean it won't still happen. Sad truth.