So...

[kierthos]

There's this rather abhorrent practice called "bear baying", here in South Carolina, apparently the only state in the U.S. where it is still legal.

Basically, you capture a bear (usually a cub), de-claw it, remove most of it's teeth, and then have it chained, and let dogs attack it, although not to death (usually) because then you'd have to get another bear.

Disgusted yet?

The particular asshats who practice this and the fans of it (of course there are fans of it. This is South Carolina, after all.) call it hunter training for the dogs.

Yeah....

Because, you know, when (oh please, if) those dogs are out being used in hunting other bears, out in the wild, those bears will be kind and considerate enough not to use their claws or teeth.

So basically, the excuse these drooling fuck-widgets use is a poor one.

And there's no way this can be made illegal until at least 2011, because the earliest time to pre-file legislation to outlaw this crap is December.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

Gah what the fuck? How have I never heard of this?

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Because you live on the other side of the country, in one of the 49 states where the practice is outlawed.

Plus, the news on this really only started breaking last week when PETA made some videos of this shit public.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've always heard that called bear "baiting".

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

The local term for it is bear baying. *shrug* The term for it really doesn't matter. It's a horrible fucking thing to do even if it was called "lollypop fun happy time".

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

Same here. I think that's the original Olde World term. "Baying" would be the telephone-game-redneck-translation version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting