Section 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 covers animal fighting (defined as “an occasion on which a protected animal is placed with an animal, or with a human, for the purpose of fighting, wrestling or baiting” – protected again here meaning ‘in the protection of’ making an individual ‘responsible’ and with a duty of care to the animal in their control). Under Section 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 a person (1) commits an offence if he or she: (a) causes an animal fight to take place, or attempts to do so; (b) knowingly receives money for admission to an animal fight; (c) knowingly publicises a proposed animal fight; (d) provides information about an animal fight to another with the intention of enabling or encouraging attendance at the fight; (e) makes or accepts a bet on the outcome of an animal fight or on the likelihood of anything occurring or not occurring in the course of an animal fight; (f) takes part in an animal fight; (g) has in his possession anything designed or adapted for use in connection with an animal fight with the intention of its being so used; (h) keeps or trains an animal for use for in connection with an animal fight; (i) keeps any premises for use for an animal fight.     (2) A person commits an offence if, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, he or she is present at an animal fight.   (3) A person commits an offence if, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, he or she: (a) knowingly supplies a video recording of an animal fight, (b) knowingly publishes a video recording of an animal fight, (c) knowingly shows a video recording of an animal fight to another, or (d) possesses a video recording of an animal fight, knowing it to be such a recording, with the intention of supplying it. (Subsection 3 does not apply if the video was recorded outside Great Brittain, was recorded before the Act came into force, or was recorded to be used for a ‘programme service‘.)