Do You Enjoy "Blood Sports"?

SeaBreeze said:
Well, the vet is not going to admit suspicion unless he's willing to take formal action against that guy I imagine...plus was probably making some big bucks to treat the dog's wounds. I've seen some horrible shows about Pitbull fighting on Animal Planet, my heart really goes out to the 'bait' dogs. :( I tell you, I could not even be a distant friend of someone who was doing that. People can be so heartless, it get angry and cry whenever I see something like that.
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My vet would have reported him in a heartbeat. She has zero tolerance for that kind of thing and is involved in various activities to stop the abuse.

I think that anyone who participates in any way in dog fighting should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and maybe then some.

My Bonnie is a rescued pitbull/staffordshire terrier and she is the sweetest thing in the world and the idea that someone hurt her on purpose makes me so mad I can barely stand it.
 
My oldest son wrestled in High School and College and went on to do comparatives in the Army, so I have an interest in that. I'm talking about Freestyle like they do in the Olympics and Scholastic style that is done in High School and College, not the WWF garbage. I don't care much for the Greco-Roman. I must have been to hundreds of his matches and I've seen the inside of half the High School gyms in Florida because he wrestled USA Freestyle in the off season. I gotta say though that that style of wrestling, while very demanding on the participants, is extremely boring to watch unless your own kid is out there on the mat. I don't think I'd call that a blood sport. There is very little blood involved.
 
Did you ever hear of "The Mat Corner"? A wrestling equipment supply catalog...collegiate freestyle type wrestling. And for the sake of staying on topic, I abhor "Blood Sports". I didn't even want to type it just now. Ick
 
I'm against any sort of animal 'Blood Sports' but Pro Boxing is another matter.

I haven't kept up with Pro Boxing for many years but I used to love to watch Muhammad Ali, "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".
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Absolutely no blood sports, and that includes hunting, fox hunts, terriers killing rats for fun etc., and even fishing in some cases. I'm also not a fan of horse racing, dog racing because many of those animals are treated pretty badly as well. No sports of any kind that involve the suffering of animals. Now if people want to bash each other for the fun of it like boxing, hockey, football, etc. I guess it's a personal choice.

Thank goodness the opinion here seems unanimous, but I won't read any of the posts here that gave sickening details.
 
I was mainly talking about blood sports that involve animals, who have no say in their participation, like dog fighting, cock fights, bull fighting, etc. I have no problem with professional wrestling, boxing or MMA matches, those people are willingly in the sport and have the freedom to choose. When I was young I went to some professional wrestling matches, was fun at the time.
 
Lara said:
Did you ever hear of "The Mat Corner"? A wrestling equipment supply catalog...collegiate freestyle type wrestling.
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Can't say that I have. It's been 25 years. When my son was in High School I had just come out of a nasty divorce and was broke and in debt. It was hard enough to come up with the money for wrestling shoes. I couldn't even afford to get him a Letterman's jacket. They were about $150 bucks back then. So he was captain of the wrestling team his senior year and didn't have a Letterman's jacket. I felt bad about that.
 
Unfortunately we humans have a long history of brutality to ourselves and our fellow creatures - e.g. Rome's infamous Colosseum. Though I do take martial arts (TKD) it's not so I can kick the stuffing out of someone; it's intended to enable me to defend myself long enough to get away from an attacker - plus I love the forms (poomse). The way humans treat our fellow creatures is horrifying. They don't seem to get it that animals feel pain and many other emotions. The worst offenders are the so-called sport killers or those who kill for profit on animal parts (e.g.rhino horns and elephant tusks)
 
Yep...And what about the annual baby fur seal ''Harvest'' in Canada...? It was supposed to have been banned. Did this ever happen...? If it didn`t...remind me to discontinue promoting Canada as THE trendiest place to visit...!!
 
IKE said:
I'm against any sort of animal 'Blood Sports' but Pro Boxing is another matter.

I haven't kept up with Pro Boxing for many years but I used to love to watch Muhammad Ali, "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee".

I reckon Mr. Ali was an okay kind of a fellow. At first, i was just inclined to dismiss him as a braggart, and a loud mouth. But, after a while, i realised that that was just his public image. Privately, he was a dedicated family man, and very socially conscious. He helped set up various sports camps for young people who came from disadvantaged families...quite often dropping in on some of them to offer some encouragement to the young teens...always seeming to find the time to do this, even when he was holding the World Heavyweight Title. Needless to say, they all loved him. Both black, and white. He was their hero...
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Cassius Clay ( Muhammad Ali ) May have been a good boxer but he was too cowardly to fight for his own country

conveniently staying out of the fighting military ranks. And, what's with this Muhammad business? Is he a muslim ?
 
You wouldn't have said that to his face.........

Falcon said:
Falcon wrote:
"Cassius Clay ( Muhammad Ali ) May have been a good boxer but he was too cowardly to fight for his own country

conveniently staying out of the fighting military ranks. And, what's with this Muhammad business? Is he a muslim ?"
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Interesting that you use the name the man himself described as his "slave name".

As far as him being a coward goes, how many of us would have been brave enough to step into a professional boxing ring just once in our lives, not the number of times he did, and probably damaged his brain as a result ultimately. Didn't he also make a comment about no Vietcong ever using racist language against him, as justification for his stance on the Vietnam war?

All a bit off topic of course :mad:, but so far as that goes, I'm a bit surprised with so many US based forum members who will no doubt be advocates of gun ownership, that hunting hasn't received more support here.
 
No, I don't like blood sports of any kind......man or animals.

Especially don't like hunting, I've seen too many that truck in animals on a ranch with high fences all for profit off the hunters that kill and mount their trophies on the wall so they can
bragg about what a big man that are.
 
There are other aspects to consider

Jackie22 said:
Jackie wrote:
"No, I don't like blood sports of any kind......man or animals.

Especially don't like hunting, I've seen too many that truck in animals on a ranch with high fences all for profit off the hunters that kill and mount their trophies on the wall so they can
bragg about what a big man that are."
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"Bragging apart", I'd like to suggest there are some aspects of hunting you maybe haven't considered.

Those who take part in pheasant shoots in the UK point out that the life those pheasants get before they are shot for their meat is far better "welfare wise" than any caged or even barn fed or "pen housed" bird, which so many of us consume every day.

My own grandfather was questioned about "blood sports" or at least shooting foxes in the UK (on a regional tv show) back in the 1960's, when he was in his 70s and had hunted all his life. His response to the questioner was to ask them why no one was considering the plight of his "free range" hens being killed by the foxes, and having lived through two world wars when the threat Britain might have been starved into submission by Hitler's submarine fleet sinking shipping bringing food to the UK, you can imagine his understand of these matters might have be different than yours. My grandfather went on to live until he was 97yrs of age, and shot six foxes afteer he was ninety, and those like my own daughter who might feel he was wrong to do so, are now so detached from rural life, or any understanding of farming necessities I'd question the validity or importance of their opinions :confused: .
 
I'm sure that is so in the UK.....not too many years ago someone brought in bags of live quail and released on the land across the road from me for hunting...one little family of quail came in my yard for a while...but around here the fire ants will destroy most baby birds and rabbits on the ground.
 

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