dafb: I disagree with you, only because a bull in a bullfight does not have the status of a Shor Ha’itztadin. It’s not trained to fight or kill. It’s just in close proximity to a person who will kill it during the performance. The bulls referred to in the Gemara were actually trained to kill people in coliseums and similar venues; as such, any killing they committed was an Ones. These bulls are different. They’re just there until people walk up to them and start attacking them with swords. It would be no different than any individual walking up to a bull on a farm and attacking it. If that bull killed in self-defense/retaliation, it would be Chayav Misah because there is no Heter of “self-defense” by animals. That’s what a bullfight is the same is. It’s not the same as a trained killing bull fighting a gladiator in a coliseum.
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