About 30 roosters rescued from cockfighting last month have evaded euthanasia and found new homes, austinpetsalive announced. | marisacharp
Roosters that were recently rescued from a cockfighting ring await adoption at the Austin Animal Center.
About 30 roosters rescued from cockfighting last month have evaded euthanasia and found new homes, Austin Pets Alive announced Wednesday. The nonprofit animal rescue has been trying to find sanctuaries for these fighting roosters over the last few weeks. The roosters were scheduled to be euthanized Wednesday, but homes were found for them in time.began back in November, when the Austin Police Department Animal Cruelty Unit seized a total of nine hens and 34 roosters from a cockfighting bust. The hens and two of the roosters were swiftly adopted, leaving the city with 32 roosters on its hands.
"These roosters did not get a happy start to life,” Kelly Holt, Austin Pets Alive’s senior program manager, said in a press release. “Cockfighting is a brutal, illegal sport. We want to help give these roosters a second chance at life, because it's the right thing to do." Finding homes for the roosters wasn’t easy. The shelter said some of the roosters were younger and hadn’t yet been forced to fight, so they were easier to re-house. But the older ones, who had been trained to fight, needed to be isolated in their new homes so they wouldn't try to kill other roosters or chickens.Ten of the roosters were adopted locally, according to APA. The others are going to sanctuaries — some as far as Ohio.
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