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Why didn’t Jasper County, Texas sheriff bust a big alleged cockfight?

March 23, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 3 Comments

Alleged host of cockfight previously characterized by law enforcement as a “career criminal” BUNA,  Texas––“On March 12, 2023,”  disclosed Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in a video posted to Facebook ten days later,  “a SHARK drone located an active cockfight in Buna,  Texas,  in Jasper County. “The cockfight pit,”  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Buna, Christopher Glenn Stimits, Cristi Ruso, Merritt Clifton, Mitchel Newman, Steve Hindi, Steve Stewart

Oklahoma lawmakers ask sheriffs to protect cockfighter constituents

February 22, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Oklahoma law meant to stop drone investigations parallels Texas law struck down by federal court COLGATE,  Oklahoma––How butt-hurt are Oklahoma cockfighters by ongoing Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone surveillance,  funded by the Humane Farming Association? More butt-hurt than legally literate,  apparently. SHARK drone videos exposed alleged cockfights in Atoka and Cantrell counties in […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Bobby Fairchild, Drew Edmondson, Josh Cantrell, Justin Humphrey, Steve Hindi, Troy Thompson, Wayne Pacelle

Feds bust cockfighting spurs in the mail but ignore mailings of gamecocks

February 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Like busting the hash pipes but not the hashish WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents at the United Parcel Service Worldport in Louisville,  Kentucky on January 17,  2023 intercepted 120 cockfighting spurs and two leg attachment sheaths “marked as handcrafted Mexican artisan rattles” sent from Mexico City to an address in Illinois,  WDRB television […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Bobby Fairchild, Justin Humphrey, Melinda Fairchild, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Wayne Pacelle

98 alleged cockfighters busted; got only $50 fines & kept birds

February 3, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Weak Tennessee cockfighting penalties boost the price of eggs             MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee––Ninety-eight alleged cockfighters were cited and approximately 250 gamecocks were seized by the Union County Sheriff’s Office near Maynardville,  Tennessee on January 28,  2023. Yet none of the ninety-eight suspects went to jail.  All were released after paying $50 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Humane Farming Association, Jim Keen, Maynardville, Merritt Clifton, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi, Union County, Wayne Pacelle

“Recognized” for trash pickup,  Mississippi sheriff ignored cockfighters

January 13, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Two cockfights cancelled in Kentucky,  but two go on in Mississippi despite tips to Lee County Sheriff Department TUPELO,  Mississippi––Driving south with the Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone squadron,  through Kentucky en route to Mississippi on the first weekend of January 2023,  SHARK founder Steve Hindi felt gratified to discover that two of […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Buddy Baughman, DL Parker, Merritt Clifton, Sheriff Jim H. Johnson, Steve Hindi, Steve Hollard, Tom Williams, Tupelo

Eight life terms plus 121 years for murders linked to cockfighting

December 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

One suspected cockfighting family massacred another             CINCINNATI,  Ohio;  MANILA, Philippines––Among the evidentiary photos and video obtained by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness during cockfights at Honest Abe’s pit in Pine Knot,  McCreary County,  Kentucky on December 17,  2022 was extensive documentation of the presence of small children,  with their supposed parents,  barely an arm’s […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Angela Wagner, Christopher Rhoden, Edward “Jake” Wagner, Frankie Rhoden, George “Billy” Wagner III, George Washington Wagner IV, Hannah Mae Rhoden Gilley, Merritt Clifton, Rita Jo Newcomb, Steve Hindi

How SHARK stole Christmas from a bar full of alleged cockfighters

December 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Who in Whoville called SHARK?  Who called the cops?  Who tipped off the cockfighters?  Who wants to know? PINE KNOT, Kentucky––Whoville,  the primary setting of the 1957 Dr. Suess fable How The Grinch Stole Christmas,  huddled beneath the abandoned Star Studying Tower on Mount Crumpit,  might almost have been modeled on the poverty-stricken former coal […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Suess, Honest Abe's, Merritt Clifton, Millard Oscar Hubbard, Steve Hindi

Three members of chicken fighting Easterling family sent to the pen

December 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Now they can play with their cocks in prison              VERBENA,  Alabama––The chickens came home to roost for seven convicted gamefowl cocks-of-the-walk from the Easterling family on October 13,  2022,  November 30,  2022,  and December 6,  2022. Six Easterlings and an inlaw who was among their employees were sentenced on those three days for multiple […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Welfare Tagged With: Amber Nicole Easterling, Brent Easterling, George William “Billy” Easterling, Jim Easterling, Kassi Brook Easterling, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Glyn “Junior” Williams, William Tyler Easterling

“Cultural” defenses for charreada & cockfighting crumble

November 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Two charreada promoters busted in Boone County,  Illinois;  Burmese cockfighting ring busted in Wells County,  Indiana;  Los Angeles close to banning bucking straps & prods GENEVA,  Illinois––Suspecting persons involved in an October 23,  2022 charreada rodeo had been charged with cruelty,  but previously unable to obtain the details,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on November […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Cockfighting, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Rodeo, Spectacles, Welfare Tagged With: Aung Myint, Jackie Cota, Jose Luis P. Ramirez, Kan Lay, Kitty Block, Ma Nyun Sun, Merritt Clifton, Mexican Federation of Charreria, Steve Hindi, Suzanne Rustaff

Alleged cockfighter Newcomb who assaulted Steve Hindi released from prison

September 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

James V. “Bub” Newcomb II didn’t like his time with Bubba  IRONTON, Ohio––Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas Judge Andrew Ballard on September 7,  2022 granted judicial release to James V. “Bub” Newcomb II,  55,  of Waterloo,  Ohio,  but made explicitly clear that Newcomb is to have nothing whatever to do with cockfighting,  people involved […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Adam Fahnestock, Beckie Newcomb, James V. “Bub” Newcomb, Jonathan T. Tyack, Judge Andrew Ballard, Merritt Clifton, Shannon Clark, Steven K. Nord

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