Bevo the Longhorn is my 2nd favorite mascot after the Chief. There have been lots of comments about him 'charging' the Georgia Bulldog.
Not sure that it can be blamed on this but a short blurb about bulldogs and bull baiting.
A little more about why Bevo reacted the way he did when the bulldog came near him. Best to recall why a bulldog is called a bulldog. Goes back to when bulldogs were used in the barbaric “sport” called bull-baiting, in which trained dogs would latch onto a tethered bull’s nose and not let go until the dog had pulled the bull to the ground or the bull had killed the dog. Over the course of 350 years, until bull-baiting was banned in 1835, bulldogs were bred for aggression, and an 80-pound dog could easily bring down a bull weighing close to a ton by corkscrewing its own body around its neck, tossing the bull over its own center of gravity. The longhorn instincts kicked in big time.
Not sure that it can be blamed on this but a short blurb about bulldogs and bull baiting.
A little more about why Bevo reacted the way he did when the bulldog came near him. Best to recall why a bulldog is called a bulldog. Goes back to when bulldogs were used in the barbaric “sport” called bull-baiting, in which trained dogs would latch onto a tethered bull’s nose and not let go until the dog had pulled the bull to the ground or the bull had killed the dog. Over the course of 350 years, until bull-baiting was banned in 1835, bulldogs were bred for aggression, and an 80-pound dog could easily bring down a bull weighing close to a ton by corkscrewing its own body around its neck, tossing the bull over its own center of gravity. The longhorn instincts kicked in big time.
