| Cant belive this, another animal abuse story | | how can people do thisA 5-month-old puppy is in the hospital after officials took him from his owner -- humane officers said it's one of the worst cases of animal abuse they've ever seen.puppy doctors have nicknamed slugger was taken to the Castle Shannon Animal Hospital with life-threatening injuries.Doctors said he?s lucky to be a live, but far from being out of the woods.?It?s very sad. It's terrible. It's terrible to think people treat animals like this,? said humane officer Marcia Rothaar, of the Washington County Humane Society.Rothaar responded to a disturbing report from neighbors that Slugger?s owner was viciously beating him.?They said the dog had been beat with a bat -- with a wooden bat -- and had been thrown against a trailer,? said Rothaar.When she arrived the man freely admitted to beating the dog, but he couldn?t understand why she was there. He said he... | |
| | What is your country's national traditional sport | | My country's OINA.
It was first time mentioned during the rule of Vlaicu Voda in 1364, when it was spread all across Wallachia and it used to be a game of the shepherds.There are two teams, one "at bat" ("la bataie") and one "at catching" ("la prindere").The game begins with the team "at bat", with one of the players throwing the ball while another player of the same team has to hit it with a wooden bat ("bâta") and send it as far as he can towards the adversary field. After that, the player has to run on the "culoarele de ducere si întoarcere" that are to be found in the adversary field before the adversary receives the ball from his co-players.Comparison with baseball * Same weight of the ball: around 140 grams for both * Longer and slimmer bat for Oina * A game takes only 30 minutes for Oina * Oina teams have 11 players; Baseball teams have 9 players
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