Sentences with word «cockfighting»

Cost of care law was amended in Oregon to include hens and chicks in cockfighting cases.

When they tried to do that back in 1975, Representative John Monks of Muskogee memorably rose to the defense, hailing the great tradition of cockfighting as «the sport of all free countries.»

Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA Humane Investigators Discover Cockfighting Operation in East Palo Alto Thursday, March 30, 2017

A couple of bird brains broke into barn housing chickens confiscated in a massive raid on upstate cockfighting ring this week and tried to bust the roosters out of the joint — only to find themselves behind bars.

This bill will increase penalties on cockfighting for this offense to include a felony charge for second and susequent offense for those participating.

Those who train roosters for cockfighting exploit this natural trait by isolating and tormenting individual birds, using terror tactics to turn them into killers.

ADLA was a member group of several citizens» ballot measure coalitions that banned cockfighting in 1998 and prohibited the inhumane confinement of farm animals in industrial agriculture operations in 2006.

Senator John McCain once likened it to «human cockfighting.»

The injured roosters had been used in illegal cockfights and authorities had planned to euthanize them.

When first we met Zach Galifianakis on the set of Warner Bros.» The Hangover Part III, he was crashing into a stack of crates and sending cockfighting roosters into a tizzy.

Stacy Wolf discusses big New York cockfighting bust and bird rescue.

In 1998, the Alliance led the successful ballot initiative campaign to outlaw cockfighting in Missouri.

Two people were sentenced today in connection with AG Eric Schneiderman's «Operation Angry Birds,» the largest cockfighting ring bust in New York that stretched from New York City to Ulster County.

Gambling and illegal drugs are common at cockfighting events.

Cockfighting involves two roosters wearing blades on their feet and fighting to the death while human spectators place bets on the outcome.

There's a ton of things to do on the side from random stunts to joining fight clubs, karaoke bars, gambling dens, attending cockfights and betting on them, maintaining relationships with a few potential girlfriends and then there are the stores where you can buy accessories, clothes or even vehicles.

Avian diseases accidentally imported in connection with cockfighting also had a part in the loss of native Hawaiian birds, but blaming cats and feral mongooses, introduced to Hawaii in 1883 to hunt rats on sugar cane plantations, has long been more politically convenient than challenging the practices of Hawaii's biggest export industries.

There are several interludes of grotesque violence that serve as a reminder of just how inhumanly brutal the whole business was, including a dip into the world of «Mandingo fighting,» which is like cockfighting but with slaves.

(«But wait,» you might be thinking, «isn't cockfighting illegal?»

In addition to the AWA, the federal law known as the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007 «amended the AWA to prohibit the interstate or foreign commerce of knives and gaffs used in cockfighting derbies.

Strengthening the law against cockfighting and other forms of animal fighting allows us to better protect animals from this type of violence as we move to end the cruelty of animal fighting.»

If you think cockfighting is merciless, the bare - knuckle fights held in backwoods Appalachian Mountains make that look like child's play... and no tamales!

The anti-cruelty provisions include a ban on cockfighting which was recently made illegal throughout New Mexico.

That great state is one of only three that permits cockfighting.

- Finally, as citizens we are all forced to comply with regulations with which we do not agree (some think they have a «right» to speed or consume illicit drugs or hold cockfights, etc.).

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Some 600 cockfighting fanciers from all over the U.S. packed a pit in a southern town last week (below) to watch the «World Series of Long Heel Competition»

For fans who have never considered cockfighting a sport, let me tell you, it is one.

And, although cockfighting is the last thing I want to be involved in, at least we have no audience cheering and placing bets.

That itself shows the misconception of the brand COCKFIGHTING.

In what Schneiderman calls the largest cockfighting takedown in state history, the attorney general's office rescued 6,000 birds and made nine felony arrests following raids in Queens, Brooklyn and Ulster County.

Taken by slavers and sold to Proximo (Oliver Reed), a master of gladiators, Maximus appears destined to end his days in the Roman equivalent of hick - town cockfighting.

On the way to that fadeout epiphany, Kemp and Sala, his Sancho Panza, experience cockfights, car chases, jail, breath - igniting hooch, an hermaphroditic oracle and a mind - altering substance «so powerful they give it to the communists.»

The latest poster for The Hangover Part III showcases one of the fighting gamecocks that Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) controls in his latest venture: Mexican cockfighting.

«The school district is not going to tolerate school teachers cockfighting in strip clubs,» his principal (Kevin Dunn) tells him.

Dr. Weitzman is also adamant that the organization continue to go the extra mile to advocate for animal welfare beyond the region and fight against cruelty in many other forms, including cockfighting and dogfighting, puppy mills, and other inhumane treatment of animals.

While cockfighting has been a felony offense in Texas, major loopholes in the law allowed the activity to flourish, and made Texas a magnet for criminal cockfighters who come from neighboring states where the penalties were more severe.

Animal fighting is also prohibited under this section, with dog fighting incurring a felony penalty and cockfighting resulting in a misdemeanor in most cases.

Toralba had been arrested at the Honolulu airport in February 2008, «as he was returning from an international cockfighting derby in the Philippines,» reported Honolulu Advertiser staff writer Peter Boylan.

Related Cockfighting, Dogfighting, Fur Used in Fashion, Chaining and Tethering Dogs, Cruel Confinement of Farm Animals, Puppy Mills, Dangerous Exotic Pets

Under current federal law, it is a felony crime to sponsor or exhibit an animal in a fighting venture; to buy, sell, deliver, possess, train or transport an animal for fighting purposes; to use the Postal Service or other interstate means to promote animal fighting; to buy, sell, deliver or transport cockfighting implements; and to bring a minor to an animal fight.

Possession of dogfighting and / or cockfighting paraphernalia can be federal offenses if the possessor is federally charged in connection with animal fighting.

SQ 777 would protect inhumane puppy mills and will be used as a shield to protect criminal cockfighting operations from prosecution.

If enacted, cockfighters will claim their fighting rooster breeding operations are farms and demand constitutional protection even though cockfighting is a crime.

Arkansas» Dustin McDaniel passed felony cockfighting and cruelty legislation and pledged $ 250,000 for law enforcement training in animal cruelty investigations.