ILLEGAL FIGHTS

Training of these animals have coverage both psychologically and physically.
Regarding the former, are abused physically base hits, jabs and scratches, and confined for hours in small cubicles dark, with the aim of making them feel hatred and anger. Drugs are commonly used in this training: first the dogs are hooked on them and then take it away, so that anxiety and aggressiveness of the dog reach maximum levels.
Another exercise is to confront animals smaller than them, or dogs of similar size, untrained, in order to promote their self-confidence.

"The training of a fighting dog is the closest thing to an endless torture, and life is too short. Even the best champion not usually last more than four or five fights, the maximum is ten. By that, win or lose are condemned to almost certain death. The fighting dogs that come to us or that we collect, "because when they leave them no longer serve in any part, come with a terrible wound, especially on the
neck and legs, and it is difficult to survive."Laments the director of a foundation that helps animals.
According to the Guardia Civil, 400 of the 2,500 or 3,000 dogs are stolen each year is devoted to sparring for a fight. The majority died during fighting training or shortly thereafter, as a result of wounds.
With regard to physical appearance, training techniques do not stop being cruel and unfair: the animals leave hours hanging from a rope by his teeth to strengthen his jaw, make them run on a treadmill for hours to develop its musculature and electric shock to let loose in the year to unleash their aggression before training and fighting, among others.
The concern in this spectacle of blood and death is not exclusive to Spain, while in other European Union states like France and Germany, the issue has come to their respective parliaments.
The police, despite sometimes have identified people involved in dog fighting, can do nothing legally against them because of the legal vacuum as regards the protection of animals. In Spain as commander explains Pírriz of Seprona, "dogfighting is not a crime, but lack, so that even if we know for certain where a fight is being held, the judge never give us the necessary order to enter; could not arrest anyone unless in the same place are committing other criminal activities.
"The legal tools," insists the commander-are clearly insufficient to halt this business that the security forces, however, are still investigating. It is very closed circles, who already know each other well, and have their own key to communicate the date, time and place of combat. "
Animal welfare associations had been alleging for some time and the increase in thefts of guard dogs to be used in fights, but in recent months, these complaints have skyrocketed. The protective claim that, for the breeds of dogs stolen is more than obvious that they will be used in fights or sparring of combat.
And they are convinced there is a resurgence of brutal business, which some attribute to the entry into Spain of new gangs of East and South America, areas with an abundance of fights to the death between animals.
Latest reports have been presented in Madrid, where he denounced Amnesty Animal few days ago the continuous theft of hounds taking place at night in the municipal pounds, and in Catalonia, according to various associations, it is happening exactly the same. " Every time we get more news from different parts of Spain, about events that deal directly or indirectly with these battles, like the theft of dogs from shelters and private shelters and even, "says founding director of the animal.

But dogs are not only victims of this atrocity, many more animals suffer. Among them, the roosters.
A fighting cocks they are provided with artificial spurs on their own in order to cause greater damage on specimens adversaries.
Some argue these fights as part of a sport "traditional and honorable", with rules, rituals and some animals that have been raised "with care and attention" to the days of confrontation.
These matches are very popular in people in many countries. As people evolve become more aware of the reality of these acts and, increasingly, these shows are put into question, regardless of the tradition that sustains them, and reflecting the value that human beings gives life.
Thus we can see the case of Barcelona, who went from being a city to be declared bullfighting bullfighting city, banning bullfighting.


Profile of participants

According to psychological reports that they have some animal welfare groups, the profile of the
participants in these unfortunate events, it is generally for "individuals with personality disorders of various types, from aggressive psychopathic people with severe inferiority complex."
A study by Harvard University, conducted in the southern U.S. states where dogfighting is abundant and in some traditional cases, concluded that men spectators, almost exclusive of these struggles to the death, which is unheard of to find women-attend to strengthen their masculinity. According to the report "the spectators of the bloody sport (as fans call him) feel their ego inflated with the characteristics of the dogs, they attribute to themselves: aggressiveness, competitiveness and strength."
Such allocation through these animals and fights speaks for itself.