Whose the nicest one of all?

I think Europe is winning at being the nicest towards animals. But then, some of their ‘competition’ isn’t even trying.

Most Americans aren’t into fights much anymore, they can see more violence on TV, the computer, and in games, and all from a comfy chair in a climate controlled house.

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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.

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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?

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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)

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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.

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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.

I don’t usually plug for anything. But I will mention that wikipedia lives on donations. Like take Wikipedia to Lunch – send them the same amount of money that you might spend on buying them lunch.

Soda, burger and fries? Salad and juice? Sandwich? Steak & Lobster with fine wine? Buy the beggars a lunch.

Find and click on your favorite subject on Wikipedia, and click from that entry to donate.

How else am I going to get my free reads and photos? I also like:

http://wikimedia.org/
Wikipedia isn’t an ad, it’s like a web charity.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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No Cut Ears

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Normal

There are some basic common sense things that people sometimes get too into conforming to what everybody else is doing to bother to notice. Like:

Dogs communicate with each other with their ears & tails. Dogs need their ears & tails. Do not hack off your puppy’s body parts. How would you like it if you couldn’t speak to other people?

Besides that, we people rely on being able to read a dog’s body language.

I knew one person who liked bobbed tail dogs so she could see their “target” as she called it. It took me a moment to figure out what she meant. She made hand motions. I understood.

Not my thing. I like a dog to have a normal tail and for the dog to be able to cover up that part with his tail.

I knew a guy who raised dogs whose tails went over their backs. He asked me if I liked the way his dogs looked. I said: Yes, but I’d like them better if they carried their tails normally, so their @$$?0// wasn’t so obvious.

He said that was his favorite part of the dog, he thought it was cute, and he liked to look at it.

Ever since then, I wonder about the people who post that they just can’t stand the idea that cruelty laws might prevent them from lopping off their dogs tails.

What’s so great about having a dog with no tail?

It’s not because you like looking at the dog’s uncovered @$$?)// is it?

Sometimes you just have to laugh at people.
Permission to cross post.

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piglet & sow

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sow_and_five_piglets.jpg

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Piggy went 2 market

These piglets are happier in the straw, than they would be on concrete.
Factory farming on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_factory

photo source:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piglets_USDA.jpg

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Mama!

Is this where your puppy really came from?

The bigger image shows it better: – note that these dogs are just one pen in a line of adjoining pens – see another pen on the right side?
photo source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Puppy_mill_01.JPG

This is a puppy mill.

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5 Gen Gap

Animal Rights are becoming more & more popular, it is a cultural movement. It has spread from Europe to America.

But their have always been some people, even way back in time, who have been for Animal Rights or Animal Welfare.

Each era has it’s own way to help animals.

Readers of the book “Black Beauty” remember the cause to end the use of the bearing rein – a strap of leather that made the horse keep his head up so he would look happy and not over-burdened.

As I understand it:
When a horse pulls a heavy load, it is often helpful to the horse, to be able to get his head & neck down towards the ground, to change the center of gravity in this body, so he can more efficiently use his weight to help him pull.

But when the horse does this, then people watching the horse pulling the wagon, will say “Look at that man, he over-loads his poor horse”.

People cheat. By strapping the horse’s head up, the horse doesn’t appear to be over-burdened.

Also, you can look at a healthy, well fed, happy horse, and see his sparkle in his step, the twinkle in his eyes, the aliveness in his actions and how he stands.

People cheat. It is easier to strap the horses head up into the angle used by healthy, happy horses, than to rest, feed, worm, shoe, and shelter a horse so that he really is happy & healthy.

The bearing rein made the horse appear to be a better cared for animal, it made the carriage appear more valuable like:

“I can afford a to have enough horses that they share the work, and I can afford to feed them grain, not just grass”.

But it made it all the worse for the poor horse, who was still was over-worked, and now had to work while holding his head & neck un-naturally for the type of heavy hauling he was doing.

Have you ever seen dog shows where the exhibitors put the thin choke chain right under the dog’s head, and then trot the dog around while pulling the dog’s head upward by the choke chain so the dog trots with his head held un-naturally high?

I have seen it. Not occasionally, but so often, that I would call it the norm for dog shows that I have been to.

Like the abuse of carriage horses stopped when horses weren’t used for transportation muscle, the abuse of show dogs is best stopped by ending dog shows.

One of the real issues with dog shows is not what happens in the ring, it is with what happens to the losers, and the breeding of puppies for a competitive sport, but their sale as pets.

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Is this nice?

Look at the calf. The fluid shooting out of his little nose. What is happening to his back? In a few frames he will be yanked off his feet. Is this nice?

Rodeos aren’t about skills real cowboys use. No sane rancher would ruin the health of his calves by roping them like this, at high speed. (If at all.)

There are other issues about animals. One of those issues is about dog breeding, and breeding dogs to be used in competitions.

On the surface it might not seem as bad as calf roping. But multiplied across the county by so many people, the problems multiply too.

If nobody speaks up about the problems, or if nobody listens, then the problems will just get worse, and all the improvements that could have been made, will never happen.

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steer roping

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Not fun 4 calf

The crowd hears her scream, they see her suffering, do they care?
What kind of monsters haave we become?

Please don’t use animals in sports.

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