Bear Baiting

A basic deffinition of bear baiting is the declawing and detoothing of a bear and allowing 2-3 dogs to attack them. It is to be considered a sport residing most specifically in Pakistan, where offences can be caused to both the bears and the dogs as they can sustain horrific wounds and sometimes even die. Unfortunetly because of the money being made, people care more about that then the animals (as in most cases).

To me this sport is barbaric and completly obscene. It had first become a widespread activity in Europe, but now a days, it can be only much found in the rural parts of Pakistan. Thankfully for the effort being made to make this cruel sport go to shame, the signs that the campaigning have outbrought the sport are showing a strong hold on the banishement of it.

Althought this sport is some what illegal in Pakistan as well, investegations, (done during 1993) found that there were evidences of over 80 different contests involving more then 300 black bears. These events in most cases are planned out by he rural and wealthy landlords whom own and train there own Terriers to attack. This is a gain of prestige, that is, if you have the strongest animal. These bears are then owned by a gypsy group who specialize in animal training, they are then paid by the landlords to bring these bears to the contests. More then 2400 seperate fights have taken place in different contests between december and march.