Everything about Bull-baiting totally explained
Bull-baiting is a
blood sport involving the
baiting of
bulls. In the time of Queen
Anne of Great Britain, it was performed in
London at
Hockley-in-the-Hole, twice a week, and was reasonably common in the provincial towns. At
Stamford and at
Tutbury, a bull was annually hunted through the streets.
The bull was usually placed in a specially constructed
ring for the purpose, and tied to an iron stake so that it could move in an area of about 30 feet. The object of the sport was for the dogs to immobilise the bull.
Before the event started, the bull's nose was usually blown full of
pepper to enrage the animal before the baiting. The bull was often placed in a hole in the ground. A variant of bull-baiting was "pinning the bull", where specially-trained dogs would be set upon the bull one at a time, a successful attack resulting in the dog fastening his teeth strongly in the bull's
snout.
Old English Bulldogs were used to bait bulls, in those times.
A Bill for the suppression of the practise was introduced into the
British House of Commons in
1802, but was defeated by 13 votes, and it wasn't till the year
1835 that it was finally put down by Act of Parliament, called the
Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, which forbade the keeping of any house, pit, or other place for baiting or fighting any bull, bear, dog, or other animal.
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