GONZALES - Four men each face charges of organized cockfighting after Ascension Parish deputies say they found 34 caged roosters and two dead roosters at a home on West Martha's Vineyard Road in Gonzales.

During the investigation, deputies say they saw wraps used to attach knives to the rooster's feet.

"Very few agencies are ready to take on the care of 34 fighting cocks," Director of the Humane Society of Louisiana, Jeff Dorson, said.

Dorson says cockfighting is more common across the state of Louisiana than you would think, as it was the last state to outlaw it in 2008.

"When they are cockfighting, they're inflicting pain and injuries to the other cocks as they fight," Director of Operations with Rescue Alliance Animal Services, Jonathan Henriques, said.

Henriques says they have g

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