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Humane solution was to give fighting roosters a new life

Letter

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Re: Law forced killing of roosters, March 3

Having to kill 1,270 roosters was atrocious. The federal law that requires the death of all the birds found in cock-fighting operations doesn't make any sense since the enforcing authority, the SPCA, exists to save animals, not destroy them.

Not all of the animals could have been so injured that they needed to be euthanized. My first thoughts would be to somehow rehabilitate these animals so that they could get a second chance, one that didn't involve cruelty or death. If they had lived a horrible life up to this point, why not make the rest of their lives comfortable? That seems like the most humane solution.

Theresa Craveiro

Vancouver