HONOR AMONG MEN, HONOR AMONG COCKS
While there had been many articles written about a cocker’s word of honor and his many virtues, only the late Angel J. Lansang has particularly given due attention to a rooster’s commendable attitude despite its natural instinct of engaging into a fight the first cock that comes by his way.
In Lansang’s book Cockfighting in the Philippines, one of the most memorable and revealing articles is about a cock’s code of conduct. Lansang wrote :
Cock’s are well-disciplined lot, observing good and right conduct in the following manner :
1. Barring accidents, they do not peck at each other’s eyes even if they keep on fighting the whole day. This is sportsmanship on the part of cock’s. What about men?
2. A cock will never hit while the opponent is in the process of moving his bowels. Try to verify this fact
3. A cock will not relieve itself while being held in hand but the moment he will set down the ground he will do so at once. Good etiquette. After one or two hours of traveling, put him down in the ground and in a minute he will move his bowels and flap his wings for the needed relief and rest.
4. At the sight of the morsel of food or any kind of insect, he will call for the opposite sex to share it with her. Noble breed and gallantry. Men do this, too.
5. Birds communicate to each other any impending trouble and danger by a loud cackle and this signal is relayed to all of their kind in far surrounding places, in a natural spirit of mutual cooperation.
6. All birds sleep early at sundown but get easily awaken by the slightest noise, movement or sight. They comply to strict discipline; so don’t disturb your ace fighter t night when preparing for an important fight.
Lansang, who came out with his book in 1966, was considered as one of the few acknowledge cocking experts at that time. He was a breeder, cocker, gaffer, sentenciador and pit operator.
He also came out, in his book, with the country’s first written cockfighting rules titled Lansang’s Rules of the Pit.
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