Accused cockfighters could take lessons from cowpokes & Mickey Mouse in how to cut & spin losses BURBANK, California; CHEYENNE, Wyoming; IRONTON, Ohio––Suspected cockfighting promoters James and Beckie Newcomb are unlikely to ever be accused of possessing the business smarts behind either the 125-year-old Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo and concert series, or Walt Disney […]
Chick sexing, cockfighting, drug abuse & dog attacks: the hidden link
Help coming from France & Germany NEWPORT, Tennessee; IRONTON, Ohio; PARIS, France––What do recent French and German edicts against crushing or gassing unwanted male chicks born at hen hatcheries have to do with cockfighting, corruption, drug addiction, fatal dog attacks, and the price of eggs in Appalachia? Not much, you say? Take a closer […]
Rare busts hit cockfighting, dog torture, & other Appalachian pastimes
Convictions remain scarce as hen’s teeth LONDON, Kentucky––Ten people including a Laurel County bailiff were reportedly cited by Kentucky State Police for various alleged offenses on July 10, 2021 while attending a cockfight at Bald Rock, Kentucky, according to the Chicago-based animal advocacy organization Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK]. SHARK drones and hidden cameras […]
Cockfighting in Kentucky: SHARK promises Fourth of July fireworks
Projected busiest traffic weekend ever gives Kentucky State Police an excuse––but what explains 16 years since last state cockfighting prosecution? LEXINGTON, Kentucky––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] and the Kentucky State Police appear to be rocketing toward a head-on collision over the 2021 Fourth of July weekend, with the Fourth itself predicted to be […]
Do chickens mind seeing other chickens traumatized in their presence?
A perspective on chickens in honor of International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4/month of May by Karen Davis, Ph.D., president, United Poultry Concerns A fellow activist once asked me if I believed chickens don’t mind watching and hearing other chickens being killed in their presence. He asked because a farmer had told him they […]
Grand jury indicts alleged assailants of humane investigator Steve Hindi
Hindi beaten, drone destroyed, while trying to videotape site of suspected cockfight IRONTON, Ohio––A Lawrence County, Ohio grand jury on February 23, 2021 indicted suspects James V. “Bub” Newcomb II, 53, of Waterloo, Ohio, and distant Newcomb neighbor Shannon Lee Clark, 35, on multiple felony counts originating in a January 3, 2021 alleged assault […]
Bullfighting politics take sharp twists in India
Bullfighting foes receive national honors even as Tamil Nadu state government drops charges against 26,450 bullfighting defenders & heads of both major national parties support bullfights CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India––Jallikattu, the Tamil Nadu form of bullfighting in which mobs abuse the bulls as they run through the streets during harvest festivals, on February 20, […]
Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them
Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States? Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying. SALT LAKE CITY, LEXINGTON, BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]
Pit bulls again inflicted 90% of fatal dog-on-dog attacks in 2020
Recurring pattern continues to elude the animal care-and-control community, much of law enforcement, mass media, and the public NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––Social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic kept people and dogs home in 2020, cutting reported dog attacks on other animals by more than half in 2020 from the annual average since ANIMALS […]
Alleged cockfighters who attacked Steve Hindi identified by ANIMALS 24-7 and tipster
New suspect named Suspects were videotaped in the act of committing an array of apparent state, local, and federal offenses. WATERLOO, Ohio––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] at 9:35 a.m. west coast time on January 5, 2021 posted video of alleged cockfighters violently assaulting SHARK founder Steve Hindi two days earlier, destroying SHARK equipment, […]
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