Cockfighting - 25 birds seized
Forth Worth, TX (US)Incident Date: Saturday, Dec 25, 2004
County: Tarrant
Disposition: Not Charged
Abuser names unreleased
An animal cruelty investigator seized 25 roosters Saturday from a Hampshire Boulevard house after officers broke up a suspected cockfighting event, a Humane Society official said Sunday.
Six of the birds appeared to have been badly injured in fights and had to be destroyed, said Tammy Kirkpatrick, director of animal care services with the Humane Society of North Texas.
The rest were being cared for Sunday night and will also probably have to be destroyed because they have been conditioned only for fighting, Kirkpatrick said.
Police went to the house just after 2 p.m. Saturday after someone called to complain about the activity. The officers found 40 people and the roosters in the back yard, a police report said. The roosters were confiscated by a Humane Society animal cruelty investigator, the report said. Items such as blades that are attached to the birds for fighting were also confiscated, the report said.
Although the birds and paraphernalia at the scene indicated cockfighting was happening in the yard before officers arrived, police did not see a fight in progress and could not prove ownership of the birds, so no one was arrested, Kirkpatrick said. References« TX State Animal Cruelty Map
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