Fisherman using live Cats and Dogs as bait to catch Sharks!!!!

[AndCur]

Folks

There was a disturbing article in the Paper yesterday
about Fisherman using live Cats and Dogs for bait to catch
Sharks. There is a picture of a 6 month old Labrador with a huge
double hook between its snout, it seems the Dogs are been dragged by
this hook in the water behind the boat.

I will not go on with this story but you can read it in
full on the web site below, I would like people to do 2 things for me
if possible.

Can people e-mail this to as many friends and relatives as
possible,England, America where ever. The bigger the audience the louder the
noise you make. The main item I need everybody to do is log on to the following
web site and register your protest with the RSPCA. The website is
www.rspca.org.uk/sharkbait.

You do not have to be an Animal Lover to see this is wrong so I urge
people to get involved in this.

Thanks

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Not realy news.

In Malta they've been using kittens for donkeys years. They don't use them alive that I know of. They've got a lot of semi wild cats in Malta.

I wouldn't do it myself but I'm not surprised it happens.

 

[AndCur]

Working Link

http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=sharkbait

 

[tyce]

Re: Working Link

sickened and signed

 

[bbg]

The link doesn't work - could this be a hoax? Somehow I doubt the utility of using live mammals as bait for sharks. They certainly wouldn't stay alive for very long, so either:
1. They are really good bait, because they must attract a shark in the minute or so before they die.
2. The fishermen are using "live" bait only for the purpose of being cruel and letting the animals drown
Or
3. This is a hoax.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

see fixed link

 

[bbg]

I remain to be convinced. It has been a long time since I believed everything I read on the internet.

 

[twisterkai]

Can't download the link, maybe too many peeps trying to look at the mo.

If it's true then it is utterly reprehensible - unless they're one of the little blighters responsible for the deposits on my driveway.

 

[abraxus]

I don't believe you /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Sammo]

Another link Click here

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[Joe_Cole]

I wasn't convinced about this story, but then you produce a link to "The Sun" to support it. I'm even less convinced now!

 

[bbg]

OK - I have checked it out on Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp

and there seems to be some grain of truth to the rumour. But as Snopes says, the practice is neither widespread nor generally condoned, nor generally involving live animals.

The original story is at the least very exaggerated and misleading.

 

[JKay]

just reached the same conclusion in the lounge

great minds think alike(hic)Walkies here boy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

cheers Joe

 

[ChrisE]

Years ago peeps used to use live dogs to catch great white shark off Oz, Zane Grey the doyen of game fishermen caught some whoppers using just this technique. But, and it is a big but, this was at least 60 years ago, roughly the same time when smoking was being advocated as a mild sedative. I used to spend a fair proportion of my time big game fishing and I never heard of the practice in any of the countires that I fished in or had friends that fished in.

Babies, yes, but never pets /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[tazzle]

I knew the damn cat would come in useful for something. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Magic]

Unfortunately it is true.

Hard to believe here I think because we are a nation (uk) / forum of animal lovers.

Had quite a long chat about this with a friend of mine, and with out boring you all it went something like...

...in some countries they eat horses, in some they eat cats and dogs, why is it difficult to understand?

Progressed to...

...Fish with a worm.....fish with a dog....what's the difference? Both living....etc...one wags its tail but ever kept a worm as a pet....

Now don't get me wrong, I do think it's wrong, but ask myself why I think its wrong and can't get past the sentiment.

 

[Sammo]

Surely it`s not easy to doctor a photo, or is it.

Strange the dog has a collar ???
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[tazzle]

All the damn thing does is eats, cr@ps and sleeps. I don't suppose it's conscious for more than 40mts a day.

A barbed hook through the scruff of the neck wouldn't hurt it too much, surely? And if I kept it 'on the plane' with an array of shark hooks fastened to its paws and snatched it up quickly each time, surely I could use it again and again? (well, four times?)

 

[reginaldon]

Perhaps one should try it with you and then you could more accurately assess the amount of hurt caused.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Maybe you can doctor a photo, but it is harder to doctor a video:
http://www.30millionsdamis.fr/FR/Dossier...eauxrequins.asp

Having watched it, and not speaking French, it could be the result of a nasty accident or a prank - bangers up frogs bottom type thing - but the hook set in the nose of the dog, with very little of the hook exposed, looks to be a poor way to fish for shark. Plus the fact that the dog would drown in seconds makes it stupid to use a live one.

I used to respect the RSPCA, but since they decided to back political bandwagons, instead of just dealing with the sometimes appalling homegrown cruelty some people visit upon their animals, like neglect, beating etc. without having to start policing the rest of the world.

I rather give my money to the PDSA.

Whilst I am on my rant, I have also stopped giving to the British Red Cross, since they decided that Christmas was too iffy in this multicultural climate. Their loss, and instead a healthy donation goes to Doctors Without Borders,(Medecins Sans Frontieres) a marvellous organsition of dedicated people who have no political axe to grind.