The ASPCA had already made 240 arrests and seized 1,550 cocks in a series of previous raids that began in June 1994. The raids caused The New York Times to editorially demand that judges begin imposing the fines for cockfighting of up to $25,000 and prison terms of up to four years that New York law allows, instead of the token fines of about $200 that are usually given.

Scotland Yard on March 19,1995 arrested six men and an eight-year-old boy
in the first cockfighting raid in Britain since 1985. Another dozen suspects escaped.

Gamecock breeder John Brown, of Corbin, Kentucky, on March 17,1995 sued the Knox County Humane Society, executive director Vicky Crosetti, and operations manager Debbie Clark for $2.1 million because they euthanized five cocks seized from him on June 30, 1993, by the Knox County Animal Control Unit, while a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper was citing him for drunk driving and speeding.

Those charges were reduced to one count of reckless driving, for which Brown paid a fine. KCHS records indicate the cocks were badly dehydrated. Cockfighting is legal in Kentucky, but not in Tennessee. Brown had just purchased the cocks in North Carolina.

The American SPCA on March 1,1995 seized 91 fighting cocks in a raid on a Suffolk County home where 47 people were caught attending a cockfight. "From June to this raid," ASPCA investigator Robert O'Neill told Evelyn Nieves of The New York Times, "we've seized 1,450 birds and arrested something like 190 people. We've forced cockfighting out of the city." The maximum penalty for cockfighting is four years in prison, but so far, O'Neill said, no defendant has received more than three months in jail.

Sex-changed roosters just fluffed-up hens Toronto Globe & Mail- 07/29/00
Warsaw. Police have cracked a plot hatched by poultry farmers seeking higher revenue by transforming roosters into hens.
The would-be sex change avoided any surgery or genetic modification by the simple application of wood staining dye to the chicks' feathers and boosting fluff with a hair dryer.
The chicks were then sold at local markets, earning the farmers an illicit 4,000 zlotys, the equivalent of $1,400 a day.
The plot was cracked when one client discovered the "hens" were actually roosters and contacted police. AFP