Chambers was appointed by former governor who favored legalizing cockfighting MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi has a theory that Butler County, Kentucky district attorney Blake Ross Chambers should do the job he is sworn to do, including obtaining warrants to bust cockfights. Catch is, busting cockfights is not necessarily the job […]
Lab beagle breeder Envigo cops $35 million plea. Shareholder suits ahead.
Envigo is also permanently enjoined from further f–––ing the dogs CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia––Envigo RMS, formerly one of the leading U.S. suppliers of dogs to laboratories, on June 3, 2024 agreed in U.S. Federal Court for the Western District of Virginia to a plea bargain settlement of alleged Animal Welfare Act and Clean Water Act violations, requiring […]
Pigeon-shooting club lawyer sues the club for not paying his bills
Unpaid Philadelphia Gun Club legal bills have apparently been at issue for ten years or more DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] founder Steve Hindi has accused the Philadelphia Gun Club of depraved and deliberate cruelty, and quite a lot else, in fifteen years of campaigning against pigeon shoots hosted by the gun club […]
Apparently no cockfight in Ripley, believe it or not––but there was a chase
Frustrated alleged cockfighters chase Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone van through the Mississippi countryside RIPLEY, Mississippi––Perhaps the alleged cockfighters who chased Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] drone van driver Steve Hindi at high speed on narrow country roads through Tippah County, Mississippi on February 16, 2024 imagined they were the would-be stock car […]
What happened when I tried to ban rodeo in New York? by Irene Muschel
More cosponsors signed on to the rodeo ban bill than big groups helped to try to pass it (Irene Muschel, a longtime New York City animal advocate, school teacher, and social worker, lives about a mile from the American SPCA head offices as the crow flies, but a world away as ethics evolve. See Why […]
Charreada steer-tailing & horse-tripping defense flunks history, art, & logic
Purported “historical” defense of steer-tailing & horse-tripping misrepresents sources For about as long as it took Mexican American Classic Charrería Organization founder and president Edward F. Ramirez to send ANIMALS 24-7 an email back on October 3, 2023, Ramirez appeared to make common cause with Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in denouncing charreada animal abuse. […]
HFA & SHARK lawsuit hits Boone County, Illinois, for permitting steer-tailing
Case has potential to stop charreada throughout Illinois BELVIDERE, Illinois––Charreada promoters suddenly have something more to worry about during the second half of the Illinois charreada season than just Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drones monitoring steer-tailing, electroshocking, horse-flogging, and horse-tripping. An August 24, 2023 lawsuit brought against Boone County, Illinois, by the Humane […]
Calves’ tails yanked off & horses flogged to start charreada season
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness videotapes worst charreada violence yet WOODSTOCK & BELVIDERE, Illinois––Charreada season is back and more gratuitously brutal than ever in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, the first Showing Animals Respect & Kindness charreada drone videos of the year show, with more expected from charreada sites in both Boone and McHenry counties. […]
Will Delaware bust cockpit exposed at SHARK/AWA media conference?
Action in the land of the Fighting Blue Hens’ Chickens FELTON, Delaware––Is a major cockfighting bust imminent in Delaware, a state which has apparently not had a cockfighting raid since January 25, 2006? ANIMALS 24-7 understands the Delaware State Police on May 16, 2023 executed at least one search warrant at a site discovered and […]
Cullman County, Alabama: combatting cockfighting in a KKK stronghold
Showing Animals Respect & Kindness aims to see the sun set on one of the Ku Klux Klan’s biggest fundraising rackets in one of the most notorious of “Sundown” counties CULLMAN, Alabama––Cockfighting, the Ku Klux Klan, and corruption of law enforcement came together from Georgia to Cullman County, Alabama, home of the Bug Tussle cockpit, […]