ARIZONA ACTION ALERT

• The Fund for Animals supports Citizens Against Cockfighting in their efforts to place an initiative on the 1998 ballot to ban the cruel and archaic practice of cockfighting in Arizona.

• Volunteers must gather more than 170,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.

• Arizona is one of only five states that still allows cockfighting.

• Cockfighters in Arizona have organized into a powerful lobby. Determined to keep Arizona a sanctuary for cockfighting, they've defeated 23 legislative attempts to ban cockfighting over the past 38 years.

• Now you have an opportunity to help stop this needless suffering forever.

Cockfighting is a blood sport in which roosters are thrust into each other's face to anger them and then placed in a pit to fight to the death. The birds are often given drugs such as strychnine to make them more aggressive and harder to kill. Their natural spurs are replaced with razor-sharp steel blades measuring up to 3 ½ inches long. The metal weapons sink deep into the birds' flesh, so that the handlers may have to pull them apart several times in a single fight -- whenever one bird isn't strong enough to pull free. Hundreds of such fights are held in front of cheering spectators who often bring their children and wager large sums of money on the outcome.

Volunteers are needed to gather the 170,000 signatures necessary to place this initiative on the ballot. Help put an end to cockfighting in Arizona forever. Even if you can only gather a few signatures, please contact Citizens Against Cockfighting for petitions today!

Phone Numbers:

602-392-4272 (Phoenix) or 520-722-0129 (Tucson)

Mailing Address:

Citizens Against Cockfighting
PO Box 17472
Tucson, AZ 85731

Don't miss this unique opportunity to ban cockfighting in Arizona once and for all. Thank you for your support!

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