Meanwhile, animal welfare advocacy group, The Vancouver Humane Society, told the Asian Pacific Post that it was pleased with the action taken by both RCMP and the SPCA in the recent bust.

“We are completely against cockfighting,” said VHS communications director Peter Fricker.
When asked to comment about the mass killing of the birds, said Fricker: “Killing by way of 'cervical dislocation' is required by the law and it is the only alternative left to put an end to cockfighting.” Fricker further explained that saving the fighting cocks is no longer an option since these birds are born and bred to fight and kill.

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What's with that statement from an Humane Society? If the B.C. SPCA seized pitbulls from a pitfighting ring I hope the Vancouver Humane Society wouldn't advise the killing of all of them on the grounds that they are 'born and bred to fight and kill'. I am the guardian of a wonderful pitbull who was destined for the pit until he was rescued and I adopted him. His ears may be cropped but like so many pitbulls he would rather kiss than fight.

To those of us who urged the U.S. government to ignore the advice of PeTA and the Humane Society of the U.S. to kill Michael Vick's pitbulls it is worrying that the Vancouver Humane Society would defend killing any victims of cruelty. Thank God Best Friends Society and others did the really humane thing and took the pitbulls into their care. Even the B.C. SPCA (I see from the B.C. SPCA web site that the Vancouver Humane Society has close ties to the B.C.SPCA) had the heart to say it hated the fact that the law says that the 1200 cocks had to be killed though I haven't seen an explanation as to why it personally did the job (by wringing their necks).

James Lanigan
Montreal, PQ