How To Identify Someone Looking For Bait Animals

(Beth Clifton collage)

"Allurement dogs" are docile victims to some pit bull advocates, but "urban legend" to others

What is a "allurement dog"?

First of all, larn to distinguish a bona fide "allurement dog" from a "click bait" dog, known to rescue insiders as a "donor allurement" dog.

Fill in the blanks

This is the generic description of a "click bait" or "donor bait" domestic dog, as typically introduced to the public by a local tv set news broadcast, or Facebook page, or on YouTube:

"Law enforcement is investigating afterward a pit bull named (fill in the blank) by rescuers was found with severe injuries that are believed to have come up from existence a 'allurement dog' past dogfighters.

"He was lying beside the route up in the woods," the rescuer told X-TV. "When I saw him I knew right away he was some kind of bait dog," the rescuer said.

"The dog is now in the care of veterinarians at [insert proper name of clinic or shelter]. Donations to aid the pit bull are being accustomed."

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The ASPCA did not claim this severely neglected pit bull was a bait dog––but many rescues make "bait dog" claims about dogs found in similar condition.(ASPCA photograph)

"Bait dogs" depict more than donations than dumped dogs

About likely that pit balderdash was never a "bait dog." More likely the pit bull got into a fight with another animal at his old dwelling, was taken out and dumped, and was hit past a car as a wandering stray.

But the claim that a pit balderdash was a "bait canis familiaris" tends to attract much more public sympathy and support, as rescuers accept learned through long experience, than acknowledging that the pit bull may accept been dumped past irresponsible owners due to dangerous beliefs.

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"Brought to Calaveras Canton Beast Services past a good Samaritan," according to text accompanying this Facebook photo, this pit bull was clearly in a fight, but at that place is no verification offered that information technology was as an alleged bait dog.

Fictitious history

Afterward, when the ostensible "bait domestic dog" is physically healed enough to rehome, the rescue or shelter trying to place the dog volition speculate that the dog was too gentle, too docile, too good-natured to fight back when pitted against a more than ambitious pit bull.

This pit bull who almost certainly was never fought at all, or formally trained to fight, may acquire a fictitious history as an allegedly successfully rehabilitated former fighting dog who ended up equally a allurement dog.

So the pit bull volition be adopted by someone in whose home he will repeat the same behavior that led to his being out beside the route where he was found by the rescuer who turned him into "click bait" or "donor bait."

And of course more donations will be solicited to aid the rescue or shelter recycle more "bait dogs."

(Philippine Brute Welfare Society photograph.)

Variations in the script

Sometimes at that place is a variation in the story. Sometimes the purported "bait dogs" accept actually been impounded in a raid on a dogfighting functioning, similar many of the 216 pit bulls seized in a December 2, 2011 dogfighting raid in Indang, Cavite province, the Philippines.

Those dogs were "not in demand of rehabbing, equally they were bait dogs," Isle Rescue Organisation founder Nena Hernandez asserted in an April 4, 2012 east-post to 25 other domestic dog rescuers. To Hernandez, the term "bait domestic dog" appeared to connote a not-threatening victim, who could exist safely rehomed immediately.

Pit bull attacks smaller domestic dog. (YouTube)

"Urban legend"

Simply to the Animal Subcontract Foundation, of rural Dutchess Canton, New York, a pit bull advocacy system founded in 1985 and long funded chiefly by literary agent Jane Rotrosen Berkey, the term "bait dog" connotes instability and take a chance.

The Animal Subcontract Foundation on January 16, 2012 had appealed to pit bull advocates to "end using the term 'bait dog.'" Said the Animate being Subcontract Foundation statement, "The dogfighting investigators we've consulted overwhelmingly agree that 'bait dogs' are by and large an urban legend."

This appears to exist still the Animal Farm Foundation position.

(ASPCA photo)

"Non unremarkably establish"

On a "myth busting" page, the Brute Subcontract Foundation elaborates, "Bait domestic dog" is a term that is used to characterization dogs that accept been used in domestic dog fighting. Sadly, bait dogs do exist, but they are not commonly found in shelters. Police force enforcement professionals have taught usa that bait dogs are very rarely found alive in their investigations; withal, an unusually large number of dogs are existence labeled equally 'bait dogs,' based on nada more than than speculation about the dog's past," mostly because the dogs in question bear scars indicative of having survived one or more serious fights.

The 2012 Creature Farm Foundation statement noted "many possible explanations why a shelter dog might present with injuries: getting hit past a car, mange, having a scuffle with another animal, birth defects, etc. When we characterization these dogs as 'bait dogs,'" the posting reminded, "we're implying more than we really know."

Declared dogfighter's premises. Dogfighters customarily chain pit bulls just out of reach of each other, believing this volition whet their instinct to fight. (ASPCA photo)

"Demonizing the fighting canis familiaris"

"The 'bait canis familiaris' characterization carries baggage," the 2012 Animal Subcontract Foundation statement continued, "and people brand assumptions about how 'bait dogs' will behave…Every time you use the 'bait dog' characterization, you demonize the 'fighting canis familiaris' who supposedly caused those injuries."

Ubiquitous every bit the term "bait canis familiaris" has go, information technology appears to be of surprisingly contempo origin. Using the search engines NewsLibrary, NewspaperArchive, Culturomics, and the archives of the New York Times, ANIMALS 24-vii has discovered no mention of "bait dogs" in mainstream media predating January 13, 1996.

Pit bulls were used in rat-killing competition at Kit Burns' Tavern in mid-19th century New York City.

Term came from "baiting dogs"

But that outset mention, in an Albany Times Union particular headlined "Pit Bull is More Victim Than Criminal," linked the concept of "bait dog" to the centuries-old apply of "baiting dogs" to torment tethered animals as a savage entertainment.

"Baiting dogs" could be either the dogs used to attack tethered bulls, bears, or other species including other dogs, or might be tethered for other dogs to impale.

The term "baiting dog" was not used consistently. The same domestic dog who was ready confronting tied victims when young and healthy, or used to kill rats in a pit, ofttimes became the tethered victim later, later suffering a disabling injury or showing a lack of interest in killing a baiting opponent.

Dogfighting when the Ku Klux Klan dominated Southern law enforcement.

Setting closely matched dogs confronting each other equally a gambling pursuit gained popularity in the fast-growing waterfront cities of the 19th century, where bulls and wild fauna for traditional baiting were relatively inaccessible.

"Cajun rules"

After the U.S. Civil War, however, the intertwined rise of societies for the suppression of vice, including gambling, and the early on humane movement combined to bulldoze dogfighting out of most of the North and W.

Dogfighting survived mainly in the Southward, where fighting conducted according to "Cajun rules" became the predominant style. Most of what is usually believed almost dogfighting by people other than "dogmen" is based on literary and film depictions of Cajun rules dogfighting.

Just fifty-fifty within the conventions of Cajun rules dogfighting, dog grooming regimens vary.

Dogfight in progress. (Historical image, source, place, & appointment unknown.)

Sadists & gamblers

Moreover, equally dogfighting spread back out of the Due south to the balance of the U.Due south. and the world in recent decades, the emphasis shifted from matched events held to entertain bettors, back toward setting dogs on other animals every bit sadistic entertainment apart from gambling involvement, with no pretense that the victim animals take any chance to "win."

The gimmicky concept of a "bait dog" appears to accept evolved from common traditional practices of Cajun rules dogfighters–which have changed over fourth dimension.

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Kittens are often used to "railroad train" fighting dogs.

Helpless victims

Classically, in the early stages of training, a prospective fighting dog is offered the opportunity to attack several relatively helpless victims, such as stray dogs, puppies, kittens, or crudely declawed cats. These "bait" animals exercise non survive the encounters.

For many "dogmen," this is the extent of the "sport," but for those participating in serious gambling matches, a prospective fighting canis familiaris who demonstrates the instinct and ability to rip harmless animals autonomously may next be introduced to i or more "sparring partners" whose beliefs and abilities will more than near approximate what the dog will later encounter in a gambling fight.

The purpose is non only to set the fighting dog to win in a fight for money, merely also to reassure the trainers that they will non lose their investment.

Actual "bait dogs"

Many dogfighters these days skip this second phase of traditional fighting domestic dog training, and sometimes the first phase as well. Some test their fighting dogs only in muzzled "rolls" with related dogs, to avoid injury to the fighting dogs which might inhibit their success in a gambling match.

But amidst dogmen who still follow the traditional training regimen, the second-stage "allurement dogs" volition normally exist other pit bulls. Submissive pit bulls who whimper and cringe, roll over, or run away will not requite the fighting domestic dog adequate grooming.

This was a bona fide fighting canis familiaris.(ASPCA photo)

Which pit bulls become "bait dogs"?

The "bait dog" at the 2nd stage of training is a domestic dog who will respond to aggression with assailment, and will put up at least the semblance of a fight. This "bait dog" may exist a stolen pit balderdash who has not actually been trained to fight, or a pit bull who has flunked out of fighting preparation at an earlier stage, or a fighting pit bull who has been injured beyond having a practiced prognosis for winning a gambling fight.

To ensure that the future fighting canis familiaris wins and the "allurement domestic dog" loses, "bait dogs" are often starved and dehydrated, as were the dogs seized in Laguna, the Philippines, in December 2011.

This pit bull puppy grew upward to kill a child.

Armed & dangerous

Simply a second-level "bait dog" has to be willing to fight–to retain the trait of "gameness." And promoters of televised dogfighting spectacles, such as those that were conducted at Laguna, may be more interested in the "show" of a fight, yet one-sided, than in staging an actual contest.

Since the promoters in the Laguna instance owned the dogs on either side of each fight, the outcomes may have been rigged to reap maximum profit from gamblers in South Korea who had no ownership stake in the dogs.

Merritt & Beth Clifton

Every domestic dog in such a state of affairs may, in curt, exist both a "bait dog" and a "fighting dog," depending on the match, and––like any and so-called "bait dog"––must be considered "armed and dangerous."

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