What's the difference between dog fighting and hunting?

Question

Yes, I am playing devil's advocate here. Can you put bias aside and answer honestly?

Answer 1

I had a family member who did dog fighting many years ago. He truly regrets it now.
You need to realize that most hunting kills are quick. I don't want to sing the praises of hunting because it is not something I would enjoy doing.
Dog fights are not quick they are long bloody messes and the dogs suffer a great deal. But that is only the beginning of what is wrong with it. Dogs are trained to fight by ever increasing harsh treatment. They spend their lives learning to be killers. One method of training them to kill is to use bait animals. Bait animals like rabbits cats and more docile breeds of dogs and then working their way up to more poweful dogs and then guard dogs until they are ready to fight other pit bulls. The fighting dogs learn to love the smell of blood and what it is like to kill another animal. Fighting dogs will go through many bait animals in their fighting career. Many fighting dog trainers save money by stealing family pets to be mauled by the fighting dogs.
A person who participates in dog fighting becomes callous and cruel to people as well. When my relative was into dog fighting he got in to many fights himself he bite off the noses and ears of various people. He was a very dangerous person I assure you that you would not want to have crossed his path.
Thankfully that is a life he has long since left behind.

Answer 2

Hunting is used to manage wildlife populations. example if deer are not hunted there will not be enough food around to help them last through the winter - many of them would die anyway and in a less humane way. Plus the animals are used for fur and meat.
Dog fighting only serves man's indulgence for violence and gambling which is fine to a point, but those dogs are taught nothing but suffering from the start so they will be mean dogs, and they are tortured more if they lose the fight.

Answer 3

what do you mean, hunting?

you can hunt mushrooms.

generally you don't shoot them.

so let's start with, what should hunting really be called?

sport killing.

now, what's the difference between killing an animal for sport, and fighting two animals for sport?

well, one of the dogs might live, wounded. but usually i think that dog will just be killed, one way or other. and both will suffer.

Answer 4

hunting is tracking a wild animal for food dog fighting is putting two animals in a position to kill or be killed (animals that are trained to kill or be killed) for a sick minded human to be entertained or to make money this is pathetically sick with no good value or resulting outcome.

Answer 5

hunting should never be done for sport, only for eating what you kill... dog fighting is sport only and cruel in that... when you hunt, sometimes the animal eludes getting killed, many times in fact.... not the case in dog fighting...

Answer 6

Hunting, is done on the ground with, Guns.
Dog Fighting, is done in the air with, Fighters.

Answer 7

I hate both....
I think hunting has no place in civilized society....
if humans would butt out of nature, and let the natural predators flourish, there would be no "need" to hunt.... nature always took care of things before humans messed it up....