Today I opened the paper and on the front page of the Denver Post was an article titled Cock-a-doodle clue. The article was about a "farmer" who was receiving large amounts of roosters in the mail. The post office agent, familiar with the fact that there is only need for one rooster on any chicken farm alerted the authorities. To shorten, the "farmer" was arrested, his home searched and in it the police found fight related materials. He was running an illegal, underground cock fighting ring. The cocks were each physically manipulated for fighting, preparing them to fight in the ring, occasionally to death, other times they would be bloodied and dizzy from the loss of blood and blows.

So of course instead of allowing the cocks to fight in the ring, or removing the metal spikes and razors that had been fit to their spurs, they killed all of them. The man was arrested for animal cruelty, but had not, himself, killed a rooster. Instead, the Colorado department of agriculture painlessly killed all of the fighting cocks . . . That'll fix it. Good thing they caught the guy before the new cocks had a chance to kill each other.

here is a link to the article itself, titled differently online.

Cock-a-doodle clue found in mail