Blood sport

In animal fighting two or more animals compete against each other, which must belong to the same race or species not mandatory. These events have already been organized in the ancient world in so-called Hetztheatern, wherein such a Colosseum theater, an amphitheater or a developed mine could be, and were used for public entertainment.

Today in illegal animal fighting bets are made.

  • 3.1 prohibitions

History

Animal fights have always had a big exhibition value. They used the aggressiveness associated with the territorial behavior of males. Organized Already in ancient Babylonian, Assyrian or Egyptian rulers animal fights and large animal hunts for demonstration and exhibition purposes. In the Roman circus games you put " beasts " ( v. bestia - ravenous beast ) for a conversation. So Sulla had 100 lions fighting each other, Pompey and Caesar 600 400, also he made a rhinoceros against elephants rushing.

The animal fight took a peak in popularity in ancient times with the animal hunts in the Roman Empire, whose effects are to be considered up to now in the bullfight.

Today the Blood Sport has a large following in many parts of the world. You can chicken ( of certain birds ), cocks or dogs at each other and pointed it also from the fight.

Later special fighting bull breeds were bred.

Animal hunts

A special form of animal fighting are the so-called rush dar. These were to be found in different cultures and to the beginning of the 20th century very common. The propaganda was that trained dogs were unleashed on another animal, totzubeißen with the goal of this. Here, bets were placed, usually either on individual dogs or on the amount of time that survived the hunted animal. The target animal was mostly previously made ​​relatively defenseless, by being tied or his teeth were removed. For animal hunts such different animals such as badgers, donkeys, ducks or even also bears and lions were used.

Gerhard Roth describes in his book A Journey into the Soul of Vienna (archives of silence, Volume 7 ) a rush- Heater in Vienna, which offered 3,000 spectators. This is depicted on an engraving from 1790. 1796 it was destroyed by fire. Emperor Francis II issued thereafter no longer permit for the holding of animal baiting. The Hetzgasse in the third district of Vienna is a reminder of this Rushes Heater.

For the Baroque period also occurred in other cities in Germany facilities that served the organization of animal fighting for entertainment of a courtly audience, including Berlin ( Hetzgarten ), Königsberg and Nuremberg ( fencing house).

The general education

Since the end of the 18th century animal fights were increasingly prohibited. Sensational menageries were now commanded by the traveling menageries.

Enlightenment writings in relation to animal fighting

Animal fight in the twilight

In the present, animal rights organizations consult partly against any use of animals by humans, while other groups take action against certain things, to others not. Particularly in the West, many people reject the use of animals for martial arts and even the term sport from in this context, but support (also called Active ) the fishing or sport hunting. Certain animal combat sports are illegal in Western Europe.

Prohibitions

In most Western countries, animal fights will be punished or at least prohibited.

  • Germany; according to the Animal Welfare Act is punishable Saxony; banned since 1830
  • Württemberg; banned since 1839
  • Hanover; banned since 1847

List of animal martial arts

  • Bear-baiting
  • Bull Bite
  • Cockfight
  • Hog dogging
  • Dog Fight
  • BBQ battle

Supporting Associations

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