Pigeon Flying and Cock Fighting

This is on a lighter note. Behind Empress market there is a narrow lane that leads towards Rainbow Center. One end of it is lined with "pet" shops. Some of them specialise in pigeons. When asked the shopkeeper told me pigeon flying is still alive and well.

I should has asked them about cock fighting;)

1,270 birds destroyed after raid on B.C. cockfighting ring

Destroying 1,270 birds seized in a Surrey, B.C., cockfighting investigation took more than a dozen SPCA officers about 13 hours, says an official from the B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

SPCA official Shawn Eccles displays metal spurs that were recovered from a massive cockfighting ring in Surrey, B.C., Wednesday.
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"The most horrific part of the warrant was having to euthanize every single one of the roosters on the property,'' said Shawn Eccles, BC SPCA chief animal prevention officer.

Eileen Dreever, a senior animal protection officer with the BC SPCA, said it was a painful experience for those who usually protect animals against cruelty.

"Each and every one of us had to justify what we were doing and why we were doing it and that was because if we didn't destroy these birds they would have died a horrible death," Dreever said Friday.