Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two cockerel fighting. (Photo by Getty Images) For years, animal advocates have warned that organizers of animal fights are not ...

It happens in an instant. An animal stops mid-step. Another suddenly bolts without warning. A third holds its ground—tense, unmoving. Three different reactions. Same moment. Same pressure. Wildlife ...

The federal government, in the last few years, has increased coverage of and penalties for animal fighting activities under the Animal Welfare Act, but it is still lacking in one area: the spectator.

Springfield, IL—The Animal Welfare Institute commends the Illinois General Assembly for passing and sending to the governor legislation that allows the prosecution of leaders of dog fighting networks ...

Animal welfare groups are asking North Carolina prosecutors to file felony cruelty charges after hundreds of fighting roosters were reportedly abandoned without food or water in Wilkes County. The ...