Dogs used as LIVE sharkbait

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450117,00.html ^

[Capitalism2003]

in France of course...

[HairOfTheDog]

If they're willing to fake the pic, they're willing to fake the whole story.

[tpmintx]

The article states that the dog was "found in a coastal creek."

I would think that the wound would have largely scabbed over, blood washed away.

That said, I'm not sure that I buy the picture either. Imagine being pulled thru water by a fish-hook thru YOUR upper lip. I don't think it would remain intact for long. Same for the dog. That hook does not look like it goes thru any substantial bone structure. This looks like maybe a pretty good PhotoChop job...

[Cowboy Bob]

The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays.

I guess that makes Prince William unfit to be King!

[ajolympian2004]

More pictures here:

http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_050818_1.html

[ajolympian2004]

New York Daily News story: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/340584p-290804c.html

[Terpfen]

Probably more like the New York Post rather than the National Equirer. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch.

[Artemis Webb]

I would first refer you all to the link at post 24.

Then to this:

Brigitte Bardot calls for halt to use of puppies as shark bait (Beware queasy alert)
Yahoo News ^ | 8/25/05 | Yahoooooooo

Posted on 08/25/2005 11:05:26 AM PDT by Syntyr

Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait.

"It is imperative that the government does something to end this practice," she said in a letter to the minister for French overseas territories, Francois Baroin, a copy of which was given to AFP Thursday.

According to Clicanoo, a newspaper in Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, a six-month-old puppy was found last month with hooks implanted in its snout and one of its legs.

The French Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) told the daily the dog was the victim of cruel fishermen who attract sharks by throwing puppies or kittens into the water, tied to fishing lines, and wait for the predators to swallow the thrashing animals.

"We don't see that every day, but it's not the first time, either," Marie-Annick Chantrel, the vice-president of the Reunion branch of the SPA, told Clicanoo. "We've already seen cats six or seven months old with hooks in them."

Bardot told Baroin that "unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island."

The campaigner, who runs an animal defence association, said she had written to authorities on the island to have them put a stop to the crime.

[Artemis Webb]

"Why are the lives of the dogs worth more than the lives of the sharks? Could it be because it is only 'wrong' to kill something when it is cute?"

I am 100% certain that both dogs and sharks are worth more than you.

[beyond the sea]

These people who do things like this to dogs need to be DEAD! And they need to be dead in the same manner.

[killjoy]

I am 100% certain that both dogs and sharks are worth more than you.

On the retail market, yes. I have eaten both of them and they are quite tasty.

[Ken H]

Why are the lives of the dogs worth more than the lives of the sharks? Could it be because it is only 'wrong' to kill something when it is cute?

What people on this thread are objecting to is the cruelty involved. If this story turns out to be true, would you condone the practice?

[ajolympian2004]

These people who do things like this to dogs need to be DEAD! And they need to be dead in the same manner.

Ditto!

[beyond the sea]

Ditto

[ishabibble]

PETA uses Nazi-style "gas vans" and dumpsters for stray dogs. I was NOT amazed that the MSM buried that story from NC some months back.

PETA is not about animal anything. It is about ideological mind control of the masses, and power through intimidation.
On 9/10/2001, PETA announced that it was boycotting Dreamworks Studio because the logo for the company is a little boy with a fishing pole. How important it seemed on the day before the world changed...

[SkyPilot]

I wish I didn't see that pic. This is disgusting. Shame on the French.

[satchmodog9]

I don't know about the story, but I doubt the photo is real. Either way I hid this article from my wife. Go to my page and you will see why.

[HairOfTheDog]

Eeek. well, thanks. It's a hideous story. I had wished it wasn't true.

[killjoy]

What people on this thread are objecting to is the cruelty involved. If this story turns out to be true, would you condone the practice?

I don't condone it anymore than I condone shark hunting. I do find it ironic that everyone cares about the dogs but not the sharks. Of course, sharks are not cute and cuddly so they do not matter.

[meandog]

On the retail market, yes. I have eaten both of them and they are quite tasty.

If you truly enjoy the taste of "Man's Best Friend" there's something else I would like you try, however, FR profanity rules prevent me from suggesting it.

[thegreatbeast]

The article states that the dog was "found in a coastal creek."

That was another dog that was found in a creek.