This is outrageous for several reasons:
First, and obviously, bird fighting is wrong. In fact, so is most bird ownership. Other than farm birds that are allowed to roam, anyone who keeps a bird in a cage is a filthy piece of trash. And I don't mean the kind of trash where there are some papers and maybe you could recycle them, but oh, someone spilled a little bit of mustard on it so, yeah okay, I'll just leave it in the trash. No, I mean the kind of trash where someone didn't finish their Red Lobster crab cakes.
Why would you keep a bird in a cage? Do you think he likes it? Do you think it's a reflection of your smarmy good taste? I'll tell you what it is: it's a reflection of your soul: lock up something originally free and beautiful and turn it into an isolated madman that fills its food dish with its own feces. That's you! Congratulations, Satan, on putting a gorgeous creature into what is the exact opposite of its intended environment.
And P.S.: your bird doesn't love you. No one does. We all wish you would die so we can finally have a party you don't show up at and ruin.
Second, if you are going to fight birds, go big or go home. This is a picture of a saffron finch. It is, well, a finch. It would be like getting a bunch of your friends and instead of having a fight club, having some kind of non-fight club. The news video reported that some birds were missing wings and eyes, and this is probably due to finch-fighting. Eventually everything will fight. That's pretty much a rule of nature. But the print story pointed out (right after the names of the criminals, as though to insult them) that none of the birds were injured.
I don't consider cockfighting especially "big" either, though it is certainly ruthless. I might come to respect both your gambling as well as your bird fighting if you fought with golden eagles.
Here is a golden eagle lifting a fox off a carcass (check snopes.com for validity of photo. I would not lie about golden eagles.). If you're going to be a tough guy and keep birds in cages and fight with them, do it with these guys.Perhaps the best part of this picture is the magpie in the right hand side of the picture deciding that it needs to get the hell out of there.
I will keep you updated about the canary/finch fighting ring, and do the same if any of you out there decide you'd like to round up some golden eagles.
