Mayor Pete Buttplug’s favorite sport.
Looks like Puerto Rico is back on its feet, eh?
Only because Trump’s federal government wants it to stop, they want it to continue.
Let the locals on the island do what they what on their own peso.
It’s probably one of the major industries in PR. They need all the economic stimulus they can get.
Don’t look up “cockfighting’ without the strictest parental controls on.
I won’t because I know what it is.
But in this day and age, looking up “Bug Bunny” can get you into trouble.
Or “Hoss Cartwright” (I kid you not!!!!)
What happens to the slain gamecocks?
Somebody please post a graphic of Col. Sanders holding up a bucket with the caption, “Try Our Bucket-O’-Loser Special!”
In other news the Puerto Rican government has legalized fraud and extortion against any American business or politicians, kidnapping of prominent (a.k.a.- rich) locals for ransom, and will be using the American embassy as the national brothel until further notice.
“...an activity where birds do what comes naturally to them...”
Roosters squaring off and fighting for dominance until one breaks & runs is a natural activity.
Slashing each other with steel gaffs mounted by humans and fighting to the death is not a natural activity for gamecocks.
When Matt Bevin got into hot water for supposedly meeting with cockfight promoters (he didn’t), I watched some cockfight vids. What happens to fighting birds was sickening to watch. And I’m not animal rights but cockfights are sheer cruelty for entertainment.
This is one of the worlds most ancient sports.
Invented in South East Asia thousands of years ago.
Long enough ago to have played a role in the domestication of the chicken.
When looking at a cockfight in the Philippines for instance, close as it is to the origin of the sport, its an emotional wrench to see those old farmers keeping their pet birds with such care and affection, and then sacrificing them to fortune. It should be a little awe inspiring to think of the extreme age of this custom, extending into distant prehistory. Untold generations have passed this down.
Let’s do the same with the people.
Winner takes all.
Cut them loose
Lots of people around here used to raise cocks for fighting over in Oklahoma. I hated it when, at 5:30 AM, fifty cocks would start, all in unison their “ROOK-A-TOOK-A-ROO!”
I’ve hatched out regular chickens, and within a few months the roosters will start fighting each other for dominance, causing some real problems in the chicken house. The hens are then terrified to be in the same pen with them before I can open the door and let them out.
Now I buy only laying pullet chicks.
One reason cock fighting was banned was some of the owners would give the cocks cocaine to inure them to wounds from the razors on the competitor’s feet.
I believe one of the old reasons for banning dog and cock fighting, was old ideas of morality.
“Animals will fight. That is their nature. But when men put animals together, and derive pleasure from watching them fight, it is a sin.”
I have NEVER been to a cock fight and have no reason to go. Chicken yard fights are bad enough.
When I was in PR, about 1970, there were chickens all over the roads. Heaven help you if you ran over one - it was always their “prize fighting cock” and worth about $200.
Hunting and using dogs to hunt will fall in time because masses of people do not believe in private property.