09-20-2008, 05:11 PM
When we lived in Kona, I worked with animal rescue groups, we were all aware of the organized dog fighting going on, but impossible to track down, nobody talks! Everyone should be concerned, many animals that go missing, we believed are used to train the fighting dogs, get them use to the kill. If this is upsetting I am sorry, but this is a way of life for some, the cockfighting, turtles and dogs being killed for food, all illegal. I do realize that cockfighting and eating dogs, is acceptable to certain cultures. We had a 3 pet roosters at different times in Keaau, the kids came in, caught them and staged their own cockfights. The last rooster we had raised by hand, we built a large coop to keep him safe, they broke in, stole the rooster, when finished, tossed him back in the yard, all torn up and blind, broken string still attached to his leg, catching him, the fear, sounds, he was making, was heartbreaking. I held him and we took him to our vet and had him put to sleep. I am angry that this abuse and cruelty to animals/pets is going on, there is no solution to this, unless people are aware that this is happening and get involved.