Some Bulldog History- Bull and Bear Baiting, even some poetry
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Bulldogs were once used in Bull Baiting, which was popular in England during the early part of the 13th century. 200 years before this, Bear baiting was the craze. The beginnings of this hideous sport are documented in 1209, when Earl Warren the Lord of Stamford, while looking down from his castle, observed and enraged bull being tormented by a pack of butcher’s dogs which then chased the terrified creature through the town: “this sight so pleased the Earl, that he gave the castle meadow, where the bull’s combat began, for a common to the butchers of the town, after the grass was mowed,