brindle, It's not badger baiting, it's badger hunting and it's not illegal! I said that is done under the FCI (Federation Cynologique Internationale - in france, or english - International Cynology Federation), the biggest "dog" or kennel organisation in whole wide world! On those events, dogs are competing for CACT or CACIT titles, almost the same thing as CAC or CACIB titles. Difference is that CAC or CACIB are beauty titles and CACT or CACIT are titles given to dogs for their working abilities. CACT or CACIT (first one is: Candidate for National Working Champion; and second is:Candidate for International Working Champion) events are established for preserving charracter and natural instincts of certain breeds, because those things were main reasons why people started to breed them in first place! For so many centuries dogs were only man's helpers and not pets. I would like to see you brindle, at some mountains here on Balkan Peninsula, where the bears and wolfs would be your closest neghbours. Then I would ask you if you would test your dogs or risk everything just because you don't like that. Aleksa