1. Who are the real beasts?

Are these useful farmer's dogs, or bloodsport dogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting

click on the wikipedia links to the types of animal baiting.

2. Farmer's dogs or Fighter's dogs?

Doesn't look like a cattle round up to me.

Note the colored rag around one dogs neck. Is this to identify him to bettors? so he won't be confused with other dogs 'rounding up the bull'?

Ever notice how many of photos of pit bulls TODAY, still show them with colored neckercheifs?

3. Bull catching? Don't think so.

Gee, this doesn't look like a bull to me, looks like a tied up donkey on a farm being attacked by a pack of pit bulls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting
scroll & click on the type of animal baiting (donkey baiting)

Roman pits?

You can't believe everything you see in paintings or drawing, no matter how old the drawings are. Like, there are painting of unicorns.

This is suppose to be of a fight between an elephant, a lion, and a dog.

Dead elephant? Really? Perhaps it was to illustrate a symbolic fight between groups whose symbols these animals were?

A more realistic fight between dog pack and lion, would show dead dogs.

Note, that like bulldogs (not so much always pit bulls) the dogs are going for the lion's nose, even though that would not be the smartest place to grab.

The lion is not petting the bulldog with his right paw.

Dancing Bare?

I like bare dogs more than bear dogs. Flea-less pets have their place - not where it gets cold, but as house dogs, house cats, and house cavies (guinea pigs).

I'm not into hunting bear with attack dogs. But I am really not into chained bear fights. Wikipedia says that it is still done in some parts of the world. I'm going to guess that TV, radio, Internet, cheap cell phones, shopping malls, and ballparks will give people something else to do.

What else are dog fights for? except for people with nothing better to do?

Wikipedia says that bear fights often involved taking out or trimming the bear's teeth and claws. Some dog and other animal fights muzzle the other animal - that isn't a fight, it's a slaughter.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting
scroll down and click on their various types of historic animal fights.


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Not even a fight

This isn't a fight, it is vivisection as entertainment.

Now we know why it is often called "badger drawing" instead of badger-baiting.

Drawing like in "drawn and quartered" - and no that doesn't mean they draw a picture of you and give you a free room. It is an extinct torture to death punishment.

Note also, that this is a bull terrier, not the regular variety of bulldog or pit bull.

Also note the dude biting the dogs tail. This is shown in a number of animal baiting paintings and drawings.

This is one of a series on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting

Duck baiting?

I don't think that dogs swimming in a lake can catch wild ducks by out swimming them.

However I do know why dogs roll in horrible smelling stuff. I had a dog that would roll in stuff, and I would let her swim in the water to wash it off.

She figured out, to roll in duck droppings before getting in the water. At first she would smear her whole body with it, but then she got wiser, and would just smear her head with it.

I had to stop letting her swim in the lake, when she got clever enough to get out of the water, look for bird poop, smear her head and ears in it, then paddle slowly with her head stretched out like a duck, but flat necked on the water.

When she learned to sneak up to the ducks, and got a bite of feathers, it was time to stop her from swimming in the duck's water.

Who says dogs aren't smart, has owned stupid dogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting

They did something so the duck couldn't get away.

jocko

There is an article on a fighting money who killed dogs under 20 pounds.

Quite a read. I won't try to quote it -too long, why should I type any of it, when you can go read the whole thing yourself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting

scroll down and click on mokey baiting.

The people are worse than the monkey.

Rats!

There are photos of rat pit 'fighting' where dogs are judge by how many rats they can kill in a set amount of time. I have seen photos of pencilled drawings that show the dog killing the rats as they are poured from a sack, as well as ones of rats loose in a pit.

The terriers are usually bigger, This one almost looks like a contest of "What's the smallest dog that can kill a rat?"

Is that what a Yorkshire Terrier looked like before it became a show ring dog? Almost looks more like a well built, normal face Chihuahua then a short coated yorkie.

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting

scroll & click

Making them comfortable?

It is amazing how we can think that we have learned so much when we are 16, and then after many many years more, realize that we still only know bits and pieces of anything.

Before I the time that I raised dogs (I don't anymore), I worked with a woman who raised little dogs. She claimed to be very much into animal welfare, and said that her extensive contract was to make sure that the people who bought her puppies spoiled them with lavish care.

She 'reclaimed' dogs who were not being cared for up to the standards she had laid out in her very strict contract and then re-sold them.

But what type of dog did she breed and sell? A flat-faced dog. A dwarf dog bred to have extra short legs. A dog not bred to be free of discomfort.

Yet, if someone else, had made those puppies suffer, she would have been angry.