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A chaos of gaping and tangled wire is proof that a fishing cat has broken in to this chicken coop. A few days earlier, the cat was found hiding under the foundations of the house. Fishing cats are often killed out of revenge for predation on chickens, such as the one pictured here. The anger is not over a loss of food, but the loss of prizefighting game cocks. Cockfighting is a popular sport in rural Thailand, and these chickens Mcan fetch anywhere between a few thousand to a million bhat in extreme cases depending on where and how good they fight, said one cockfight participant.