If you know someone who is into cockfighting, please call 860-808-5180. That's the new state hotline established to combat animal fighting.State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has today announced the formation of an ad hoc Committee of Animal Cruelty through the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Under particular scrutiny by this committee is the practice of animal fighting, made a bit more well-known by former Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick when he was busted for running a dog-fighting ring.
From his press release:
"Blumenthal said animal fighting - including dog fighting and cockfighting - is a pervasive problem in Connecticut and nationally. In recent years, there have been reports of numerous criminal arrests related to animal fighting, and animal control officers continuously encounter dogs, particularly pit bulls, covered in scarring indicative of dog fighting."
I'm actually behind the attorney general on this, as I find animal abuses to be particularly repugnant. But I can't help wonder... what will Hartford Democrats do now that they can't hold rotisserie cockfight fundraisers?
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I know one, maybe two, people who have boy chickens for fighting purposes.
I can't agree with it either but like Whoopie says, it’s a culture thing. Some people are raised this way.
They don't see it as wrong. I am perplexed however how the AG fits into this issue.
Who is he going to sue now? And on what grounds?
What would this man ever do if was ever elected Governor where he provide actual leadership and address problems?
Rell has more in the way of leadership and boy does that ever say a lot.
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