Dog fighting

thumb|250px| thumb|250px| Dog fighting is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of gambling and entertainment for the spectators. Quotes What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower, quoted in The Washington Post (1 February 1958), p. 1 A Mastiff of true English bloodLov'd fighting better than his food. John Gay, "The Mastiffs", Fables (1738) Like as a Mastiffe having at a bayA salvage Bull, whose cruell hornes doe threatDesperate daunger. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1580) Proverbs Tulying dogs come halting home. James Kelly, Scottish Proverbs (1721) Spoken when quarrelers come off with the worse. English: Brabling dogs have sore ears. A dogfight at home is more interesting than a civil war in Asia. American (California & New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996) Fighting dogs never win. American (Kentucky & Tennessee) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996) All's fair in a dogfight. American (New York) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996) Variant: All's fair in a dog's fight. One dog may kill another, but that doesn't stop dogfights. American (Texas) Proverb, reported in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996) External links Category:Dogs