Dogfighting
“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more”(christie). When dog’s get hurt, they go hide from people till they feel better. They don’t want people to see them hurt. Dog’s are very smart and don’t want their owners to see they are in pain for some reason they just don’t want their owners to worry about it.Dog fighting forces dog’s into cruel behaviors and needs to be stopped.
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Dogfighting moved into the shadows during the nineteenth century in the face of the growing distaste for blood sports and interest in anti cruelty movements by the end of civil war fights are held in basements and other secluded spaces to avoid scrutiny. By the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century dogfighting became associated with more sordid elements or urban life. They routinely linked blood sports with other iniquitous behaviors and the lower class. With bulls and bears becoming scarce in urban centers, sporting men bred dog’s to fight against one another in location sequestered from public view. Pit bulls crossed between terriers and bulldogs are bred for ferocity and agility for fighting in pits or rings. One of philadelphia's more infamous gilded age sporting men, Pat Carroll, invested long hours in a dog’s training,sometimes walking it twenty miles a day, throwing it in the water to swim, or harassing it with the skin of a rabbit attached to a pole. Matches could last for hours until one dog killed the other or until one or both combatants are too injured to continue.many of the animals came from England and Ireland, Following the civil war, dogfighting reached