SHARK Shuts Down A Cockfight in Oklahoma
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FROM SHARK Showing Animals Respect & Kindness
May 2021

We saw that a cockfight was in progress, so we called the Atoka County Sheriff's Office. Multiple law enforcement vehicles dispatched to the scene.

Oklahoma cockfight operation
The cockfighting property, taken with our drone. The small boxes at the bottom are where the roosters are kept.

Last Saturday, SHARK and our partners at the Humane Farming Association scored another victory in our Crush Cockfighting campaign. Acting on a tip, we were monitoring a property suspected of conducting cockfights in Atoka County, Oklahoma. We had earlier droned the property, observing dozens of huts for fighting roosters, and we had also observed and filmed even more roosters at a neighboring property. We knew that both properties are owned by members of the same family.

We saw that a cockfight was in progress, so we called the Atoka County Sheriff's Office. Multiple law enforcement vehicles dispatched to the scene. The cockfighters reportedly locked the gate on the property to hold the officers back and fled the scene. We have provided our drone footage to the sheriff's office, and we await word of further action. We will continue to monitor this property, and we are pleased that we have now cracked the security that has kept Oklahoma cockfights in the shadows. We look forward to many more cockfight busts throughout Oklahoma going forward.

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Kentucky Cockfight

We told you that we were committed to going after cockfighting anywhere we found them, and we are keeping that promise. If you support our efforts again cockfighting, then please consider making a generous donation. The on-the-ground effort against cockfighting means hundreds and hundreds of hours crisscrossing the country, from California to Kentucky and points in between. You can't do this work from an office.

This is real field work. It is difficult and often dangerous, not to mention expensive, but if there is to be success, this is how it has to be done.

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