California Learn more Maine Learn more Ohio Learn more Oklahoma Learn more Follow on Facebook Pennsylvania Learn more Texas Learn more Vermont Learn more Follow on Facebook Wisconsin Learn more Follow on Facebook Read More About Our Activity in the States Statement From Wayne Pacelle on Cockfighting Arrests in Logan County, Oklahoma Wayne Pacelle Issues Statement After Dog Brutally Burned Alive in Corpus Christi, Texas Statement from Wayne Pacelle on Filing of 25 Animal Cruelty Cases by Los Angeles District Attorney Animal Wellness Action Commends U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Seizing Illegal Cockfighting Equipment at Cincinnati Port of Entry Acting on an Investigation from Animal Wellness Action and SHARK, Hunt County Sheriffs’ Office Breaks Up Major Cockfight on Sunday Federal Dogfighting Case of Former NFL Player Should Be Trigger to Create Animal Cruelty Crimes Section at U.S. Department of Justice Ellis County Sheriffs’ Deputies Break Up Major Cockfight Near Ferris Local Law Enforcement Allows Massive Assembly of Cockfighters to Escape After Animal Wellness Groups Uncover and Document Fighting Derby in Progress in Titus County Last Saturday Our Offensive Against Cockfighting Crimes in Texas and on the U.S. Border with Mexico SHARK and Animal Wellness Action Uncover Fighting Pits and Staged Animal Combat in Oklahoma and Texas, But Law Enforcement Fails to Make Arrests Animal Welfare Groups Applaud El Paso Authorities for Cockfighting Raid in Texas Animal Welfare Groups Applaud Lorain County Authorities in Cockfighting Raid in Ohio Two Texas Cockfighters Arrested in Southeast Oklahoma, in Meaningful Arrests to Halt Malicious Cruelty to Animals Animal Wellness Groups Applaud San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Deputies for Busting Serious Cockfighting Ring near Lodi California’s Bird Flu Emergency Requires Close Attention to Rampant Cockfighting and Threat of Ill Fighting Birds Acting as Superspreaders Animal Welfare Groups Call on Leaders at Redwoods, Yosemite, and Other California-Based National Parks to Reject Scheme to Open Up Barred Owl Hunting Pennsylvania Legislature Passes Measure to Include Pets in Domestic Violence Settings HISA Advocates Encouraged by U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Horse Safety Rules at Racetracks in Texas and Louisiana While Considering Whether to Hear Case Animal Wellness Action Endorses Five Vermont State Legislators Texas cockfighting raid latest in series of critical cockfighting busts Shooting in Vermont was Preceded by Years of Animal Abuse Bust of Texas Dogfighting Ring Underscores Need for Tougher National Legislation Victims of Mass Shooting of Animals in California Could Have Easily Been Children or Other Human Beings Primary Run-Offs a Bad Day for Gamefowl Commission as Several Pro-Cockfighting Candidates Go Down for the Count Statement on Wausau Man Previously Convicted in Cockfighting Scheme Now Facing Federal Drug Charges Bad News for Animals and Local Governments as PA Legislature Preempts Pittsburgh’s Decades-Long Ban on Cruel Rodeos Governor Frank Keating, Animal Wellness Action-Oklahoma Endorse Sheriff Chris Bryant for Re-election in Carter County, Oklahoma Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission Effort to Weaken State Anti-Cockfighting Law Didn’t Get Out of the Batter’s Box in 2024 Carter County DA Charges Alleged Cockfighting Facilitators with Felonies Woman Charged with Cruelty, Animal Fighting in Lancaster County Tied to Maryland Staged Animal Fighting Ring Animal Wellness Organizations Highlight $2,500 Reward for Tips on Cockfighting, After Two Major Busts This Weekend Animal Wellness Groups Laud Passage of Vermont State Bill S.301 to Halt Trade in Bear Bile and Other Bear Parts Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Animal Wellness Action Grants $2,000 Reward Money to Oklahoma City Woman for Turning in Oklahoma Man who Savaged and Killed Puppy Wildlife Advocates Call for Modern Wildlife Governance in Vermont with Support for S.258 Animal Wellness Action Celebrates Passage of Crucial Wildlife Bill out of Vermont Senate Arrest of Alleged Monterey County Cockfighters an Important Step in Rooting Out Trafficking of Fighting Birds Statement on Texas Cockfighting Bust with nearly 100 birds seized Animal Wellness Action, Center for a Humane Economy Announces New Oklahoma State Director Statement on Caldwell County Cockfighting Bust – Latest in a Series of Texas Raids on Animal Fights Statement on Harris County Cockfighting Bust Animal Wellness Groups Explain Why Oklahoma’s Pro-Cockfighting Legislation Is Backfiring and Triggering More Raids of Illegal Operations After Unwarranted Delays and A Torrent of Litigation from Factory Farming Interests, Prop 12 Now in Full Effect in California Barry Switzer Calls Cockfighting ‘Barbaric’ and Implores Gov. Kevin Stitt to Oppose Any Attempts to Weaken the Voter-Approved Anti-Cockfighting Law Standards Governor Stitt’s Embrace of Cockfighting Out of Bounds and an Embarrassment, According to Keating, Edmondson, and Leaders of Animal Welfare Groups Oklahoma Cockfighters Plotting to Defy the State Law with Onset of New Cockfighting Season This Month Even as Deadly Avian Influenza Spreads in the State Animal Wellness Action Issues Statement About Cockfighting Ring Bust in Ohio Animal Wellness Action Applauds Seizure of Mass Haul of Cockfighting Implements Bound for Illicit U.S. Cockfighting Pits Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission Leader Charged With Illegal Animal Fighting Animal Wellness Action Issues Statement About Cockfighting arrests in Polk County, Texas Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy condemn California’s refusal to begin immediate enforcement of Proposition 12, call for immediate steps Animal Wellness Action applauds arrests for cockfighting in Marshall County Oklahoma Animal Wellness Action and Center for a Humane Economy Celebrate Pennsylvania’s Recognition of Natalie Ahwesh Statement on Sooner Survey Poll Showing Near-Unanimous Opposition to Cockfighting in Oklahoma Leaders of Pro-Cockfighting Campaign in Oklahoma Are Major Traffickers of Animals for Fighting, according to a new report from Animal Wellness organizations Animal Wellness Action Allies Reveal Scant Few Busts of Cockfights in Oklahoma Since Enactment of SQ 687, According to Survey of District Attorneys Vermont Legislation Introduced to Stop Nike and Other Soccer Cleat Sellers from Driving the Slaughter of Kangaroos in Australia Animal Wellness and Center for a Humane Economy Release Details on Cockfighting in Oklahoma Even as Avian Influenza Outbreak Persists With Avian Influenza Infiltrating Oklahoma, the Nation’s Biggest Underground Cockfighting Industry Can Make the Outbreak Even More Menacing and Far-Reaching Judicial Decision to Block Wolf Hunting in Wisconsin Will Extend To the Entire Fall and Winter Season State Judge Issues “Dramatic Decision” in Striking Down Wisconsin Wolf Hunt Broad Coalition of Maine-Based Organizations Urges Voters to Reject Question 3 Pennsylvania Pet Stores Continue Selling Dogs from Puppy Mills Despite COVID-19 Crisis
Animal Wellness Action Commends U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Seizing Illegal Cockfighting Equipment at Cincinnati Port of Entry
Acting on an Investigation from Animal Wellness Action and SHARK, Hunt County Sheriffs’ Office Breaks Up Major Cockfight on Sunday
Federal Dogfighting Case of Former NFL Player Should Be Trigger to Create Animal Cruelty Crimes Section at U.S. Department of Justice
Local Law Enforcement Allows Massive Assembly of Cockfighters to Escape After Animal Wellness Groups Uncover and Document Fighting Derby in Progress in Titus County Last Saturday
SHARK and Animal Wellness Action Uncover Fighting Pits and Staged Animal Combat in Oklahoma and Texas, But Law Enforcement Fails to Make Arrests
Two Texas Cockfighters Arrested in Southeast Oklahoma, in Meaningful Arrests to Halt Malicious Cruelty to Animals
Animal Wellness Groups Applaud San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Deputies for Busting Serious Cockfighting Ring near Lodi
California’s Bird Flu Emergency Requires Close Attention to Rampant Cockfighting and Threat of Ill Fighting Birds Acting as Superspreaders
Animal Welfare Groups Call on Leaders at Redwoods, Yosemite, and Other California-Based National Parks to Reject Scheme to Open Up Barred Owl Hunting
HISA Advocates Encouraged by U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Horse Safety Rules at Racetracks in Texas and Louisiana While Considering Whether to Hear Case
Victims of Mass Shooting of Animals in California Could Have Easily Been Children or Other Human Beings
Primary Run-Offs a Bad Day for Gamefowl Commission as Several Pro-Cockfighting Candidates Go Down for the Count
Bad News for Animals and Local Governments as PA Legislature Preempts Pittsburgh’s Decades-Long Ban on Cruel Rodeos
Governor Frank Keating, Animal Wellness Action-Oklahoma Endorse Sheriff Chris Bryant for Re-election in Carter County, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission Effort to Weaken State Anti-Cockfighting Law Didn’t Get Out of the Batter’s Box in 2024
Woman Charged with Cruelty, Animal Fighting in Lancaster County Tied to Maryland Staged Animal Fighting Ring
Animal Wellness Organizations Highlight $2,500 Reward for Tips on Cockfighting, After Two Major Busts This Weekend
Animal Wellness Groups Laud Passage of Vermont State Bill S.301 to Halt Trade in Bear Bile and Other Bear Parts Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Animal Wellness Action Grants $2,000 Reward Money to Oklahoma City Woman for Turning in Oklahoma Man who Savaged and Killed Puppy
Arrest of Alleged Monterey County Cockfighters an Important Step in Rooting Out Trafficking of Fighting Birds
Animal Wellness Groups Explain Why Oklahoma’s Pro-Cockfighting Legislation Is Backfiring and Triggering More Raids of Illegal Operations
After Unwarranted Delays and A Torrent of Litigation from Factory Farming Interests, Prop 12 Now in Full Effect in California
Barry Switzer Calls Cockfighting ‘Barbaric’ and Implores Gov. Kevin Stitt to Oppose Any Attempts to Weaken the Voter-Approved Anti-Cockfighting Law Standards
Governor Stitt’s Embrace of Cockfighting Out of Bounds and an Embarrassment, According to Keating, Edmondson, and Leaders of Animal Welfare Groups
Oklahoma Cockfighters Plotting to Defy the State Law with Onset of New Cockfighting Season This Month Even as Deadly Avian Influenza Spreads in the State
Animal Wellness Action Applauds Seizure of Mass Haul of Cockfighting Implements Bound for Illicit U.S. Cockfighting Pits
Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy condemn California’s refusal to begin immediate enforcement of Proposition 12, call for immediate steps
Animal Wellness Action and Center for a Humane Economy Celebrate Pennsylvania’s Recognition of Natalie Ahwesh
Leaders of Pro-Cockfighting Campaign in Oklahoma Are Major Traffickers of Animals for Fighting, according to a new report from Animal Wellness organizations
Animal Wellness Action Allies Reveal Scant Few Busts of Cockfights in Oklahoma Since Enactment of SQ 687, According to Survey of District Attorneys
Vermont Legislation Introduced to Stop Nike and Other Soccer Cleat Sellers from Driving the Slaughter of Kangaroos in Australia
Animal Wellness and Center for a Humane Economy Release Details on Cockfighting in Oklahoma Even as Avian Influenza Outbreak Persists
With Avian Influenza Infiltrating Oklahoma, the Nation’s Biggest Underground Cockfighting Industry Can Make the Outbreak Even More Menacing and Far-Reaching
Judicial Decision to Block Wolf Hunting in Wisconsin Will Extend To the Entire Fall and Winter Season