Good for you! We had this situation in Arizona, and the ban passed. It was pitiful. The OldDominantLiberalMedia out in force, lying their A** off.
The small minority of dedicated cockfighting enthusiasts, begging for help to defeat the measure, virtually closed out of any debate, because they were right and their was no logical reason for the ban.
Ownership of the birds made a felony, so that all would have to be killed, if the afficionados followed the law.
Passage, with the resultant creation of thousands of new felons, and the state with another victimless crime that it can use to persecute those it chooses to.