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For some reason, humans stopped pitting dogs against bulls but are still to this day doing it ourselves in stadiums filled with people cheering while a bull is slowly bled to death. Very crazy it's still legal today in parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting

Happily, Mexico finally made it illegal!

Kind of, right? It seems it was banned in some states, "but resumed on 29 January 2024 after a series of legal challenges" according to Wikipedia. Unless I'm getting the order of events incorrect.

TIL about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting as well

Apparently still practiced (although illegal) in Pakistan and was occurring in the United States as recently as last decade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-baiting too

Guess what bulldogs were bred for 8(

I know, that and the Birmingham Bullring, I thought that was a cattle market.