The City of Austin has a dilemma: What to do with 32 fighting roosters.
Roosters that were recently rescued from a cockfighting ring await adoption at the Austin Animal Center on Friday
Bland says he initially thought Austin Public Health would take responsibility for the animals, but that was a nonstarter. Now he’s urgently trying to re-house the roosters to free up room for the dogs and cats that already have few places to stay. The day I visited, dogs were being kept in a conference room because there was no other space.
Bland says the center could have done that when they first arrived, but now it's working with Austin Pets Alive to try to save them.Austin Pets Alive is a nonprofit animal rescue group that partners with the city to help it achieve its “no kill” policy — the city rule that 95% of animals that come to the center cannot be put down.
Holt has assessed the roosters and says some of them may not have been trained to fight yet, making them more easy to house. When I asked her my chicken dinner question, she says:
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