Talk:Badger-baiting

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Isn't the term "badger baiting" sometimes used in the press to mean "digging for badgers"? GCarty 10:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

They are separate actitivies. SirIsaacBrock 03:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real sport

Just wanted to add another voice to say that this is a real sport, however strange/horrible you think it may be. I don't get the point of it, but it's real all right. --mboverload@ 10:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Hipocrite is a sock puppet of User:Hpuppet he was banned for spamming and they let him back in two days ago. He is attacking all of the baiting articles. Just revert them until he is WP:3RR and he goes away. 70.51.198.36 22:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Further work on this article

I think the article could do with some information on the legality of the activity, and legislation covering it. MikeHobday 07:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV error?

I removed a section because it seemed to have a POV error. In case this was done in error, the text I removed was the following:

Personal accounts

I am amazed that there is no reference to current badger baiting. My last job was as Wildlife Liaison Officer for Sussex Police. There, I was introduced to indisputable evidence that this barbaric sport still continues on the Downs. The problem is that the offenders are unscrupulous criminals. Drugs and gambling are involved and the ‘event’ takes place in as remote a place as possible in the dead of night. The Police are faced with a huge operation involving armed Police and massive resources which are needed elsewhere. Six years on and I am dismayed that there seems to be no reduction in the number of animals dumped by the side of the road. Many I examine show evidence of having been bound. It is clear that the Police are powerless to combat this crime. Moreover, the public are ignorant that this is going on. A few days ago, my daughter who now drives to Brighton every day, saw two dead badgers by the side of the road, on the approach to Eastbourne. She stopped her car and walked back quite some distance to examine one. To her horror she saw that the animal was lying in a pool of blood. All its claws had been ‘hacked’ off, as she described. The animal also had a very large lump on its head. No doubt to put it out of its misery. I reported this to an old wildlife associate the very next day. We arranged to meet to examine the animal. It had been removed rather speedily by the council. No doubt it would have offended visitors to Eastbourne. Although the Police may be quite understandably powerless to combat this, ‘ordinary’ people like you and me can make a huge difference. All it takes is a little awareness and vigilance. Removal of the body to a safe distance away from the road. A report of a car registration mark can make all the difference.