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Pakistan: Dogs for Fighting

Dogs for Fighting

A gull-ter dog is out of his hut in the countryside. The 3 years old dog will die from here to few weeks, because the bad conditions of care. Most of the dogs fighting who are not good champions have a short life, because for their owners is more important the honor due to victories. Suburbs in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on thursday, August 28 2008.....According to the Islamic tradition, angels do not enter a house which contains dogs. Even if they are considered "ritually unclean" by the jurists, the fighting dogs of Pakistan are tolerated by institutions and by believers alike. These mastiffs are grown and trained explicitly for these matches. Spectators in this area flock-in from nearby villages whenever a famous dog is scheduled to enter the arena. And this is more than just a show: entire families base their social esteem on the results of such bloody confrontations.

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A gull-ter dog is out of his hut in the countryside. The 3 years old dog will die from here to few weeks, because the bad conditions of care. Most of the dogs fighting who are not good champions have a short life, because for their owners is more important the honor due to victories. Suburbs in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on thursday, August 28 2008.....According to the Islamic tradition, angels do not enter a house which contains dogs. Even if they are considered "ritually unclean" by the jurists, the fighting dogs of Pakistan are tolerated by institutions and by believers alike. These mastiffs are grown and trained explicitly for these matches. Spectators in this area flock-in from nearby villages whenever a famous dog is scheduled to enter the arena. And this is more than just a show: entire families base their social esteem on the results of such bloody confrontations.
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