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bull-baiting

The setting of dogs to attack a chained bull, one-time ‘sport’ popular in the UK and Europe. It became illegal in Britain in 1835.



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Originally, they were used in bull baiting, a brutal animal spectacle where dogs are used to submit enraged bulls.
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In 1777 there were "great disturbances in the hamlets of Deritend, Erdington, Saltley, and other places, in or near this town, occasioned by bull baiting and other methods made use of to collect disorderly people together, to the great annoyance of the publick peace".
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