Dog fighting

dog bloodsport

Dog fighting is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of gambling and entertainment for the spectators.

Quotes

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  • What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.
  • A Mastiff of true English blood
    Lov'd fighting better than his food.
  • Like as a Mastiffe having at a bay
    A salvage Bull, whose cruell hornes doe threat
    Desperate daunger.

Proverbs

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  • Tulying dogs come halting home.
    • James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs (1721)
    • Spoken when quarrelers come off with the worse. English: Brabling dogs have sore ears.
  • A dogfight at home is more interesting than a civil war in Asia.
    • American (California & New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
  • Fighting dogs never win.
    • American (Kentucky & Tennessee) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
  • All's fair in a dogfight.
    • American (New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
    • Variant: All's fair in a dog's fight.
  • One dog may kill another, but that doesn't stop dogfights.
    • American (Texas) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996)
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