Dogs used as shark bait

video and french petition: http://tinyurl.com/ccwc6

Sea Shepherd News: http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_050818_1.html

British tabloid coverage: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450117,00.html & http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450292,00.html

resources to show your disgust: http://www.petstv.com/misc/PETITION.htm

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

It would seem to be an urban legend only if and when people and media reports make it sound of epidemic proportions, as if thousands of people or whole nations are doing this. I have not seen any such reports.

Otherwise, it is truthful, as it appears to be more than just an isolated crime by a single fisherman.

That people would see value in this practice is deplorable.

the assholes doing this should be should be put on a hook and draged behind a boat for shark bat themselves !

" STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait,"

It sounds like this is only know to have happened and that was in the past so the use of "are" is incorrect. Also, on scopes it was suggested that people may have been using dead dogs they found rather than capturing strays so if that was the case with the single proven case another part of the story is incorrect. Taking a single case of something and acting shocked isnt that abnormal but with all the horrible things happening in the world the shock seems misplaces. If I stated that peopel from Wisconsin are trolling gay bars in Chicago and picking up young men so they can kill them and use them as food, I would be lying and pointing at the Dahmer case wouldnt be proof since as with this case the only known case was in the past.

Just cause you say its a myth don’t make it so .. .

If you said people don’t commonly slaughter and eat dogs because they enjoy it would not make it true


BECAUSE THEY DO !!!
Just because they aren’t serving it up a we-be sushi on Valencia doesn’t mean its not happening EVERY DAY somewhere cause it is.
You would have to be an idiot not to know it.
now check out the photo OF THE hooked fish bait dog at the top and tell me again how that dog is really dead . .. she just looks alive . . . its a myth . . . @#@@#%##@

Would some of you vegetable head vegans tell me how you coup with the fact that sharks are meat eaters do you feel the earge to "convert them to becoming veggies ???
What about lions chomping down on all that flesh ??? Are they in need of being informed of the errors ???

what about northern native Eskimos that don t have the option of just eating plants cause of their environmental situation are they in need of converting ??

the photo looks photoshopped. no blood. no swelling. fake.

Ok look before you open your snout and spew a bunch of snot the poor dogs snout is inflamed and the tip IS swollen . . .

There is no sign of "Photo shopping" the picture it is real . . . .
The pixelazation is concurrent with light exposure effect on a photon censor . . . there is no blurring or smearing, if someone was to try to create a photo with this qualities the would have to have done it pixel by pixel and there are 10's of thousands of them it would have taken hundreds of hours to create the detailed resolution effect

next time open your eyes before your big mouth . . ..

I use dogs to catch catfish, and cats to catch dogfish

see the video

http://tinyurl.com/ccwc6

so why are you stereo typicaly linking a pierced nose with a injury??


maybe the dog likes having his nose pierced it could be a fashon thang

In my stint as Peace Corp in Kosrae, dogs were considered a delicacy. "Man's best friend" is culturally relative. Sorry, people

WHAT A BUNCH OF SICKOS.WHAT IN THE WORLD.I HOPE ALL THESE SICK DISGUSTING HIDEOUS AND CRUEL PEOPLE GET THE DEATH SENTENCE.HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE HOOKED IN YOUR NOSE & LEG TO A BOAT,AND THEN EATEN BY A SHARk?IM TRYING VERY HARD TO REFRAIN FROM CURSING AT PEOPLE.

this is sickening. I wish it were legal to do unto others as they have done to others. Then they wouldnt even come close to thinking about that. I dont even want to imagine how COMPLETELY HEARTLESS you would have to be to do that to puppies, dogs, kittens and cats. I hope they rott in H%@@

What in the HELL is wrong with you people?Dogs &Cats DO NOT like there noses peirced,and its NOT a fashion "thang" whoever the fuck the weirdo that put that was.Oh yeah,its a real fashion statement to be hung on a hook by your nose,strung on the back of a boat as fishbait.WTF.Im guessing you are mentally disturbed.So,lets through you out in the middle of the ocean with a hook through your nose as sharkbait.Oh yes,what fun!SIKE.

Reading several of the comments posted, I've come to the conclusion that many people don't exactly understand what exactly is going on.

Firstly, many sharks are endangered and most causes of that is the over fishing on many species' food groups. Others reasons are that sharks are so incredibly misunderstood that they're hunted for fear, as well as considered a delicacy.

I'm not sure that anyone has noticed but dogs and cats aren't exactly the aquatic types. To use them as bait to catch sharks goes completely against the balance of nature.

Lastly, to those ill informed, it is only human beings who derive pleasure from being mutilated beyond recognition. It's only human beings who find satisfaction in torturing and killing other living beings. And before some twit spouts their mouth off about how all vegans, vegitarians, and activists are tree-hugging, fur-loving rainbow chasers, I'd like to inform them that not all people who have concerns about deplorable practises such as the aforementioned dog-baiting are extremists. Many are simply animal lovers, who have pets in their homes, and have a thorough understanding of the cycle of life and death.
What these people have issues with is the fact that only human beings torture other living beings. A lion doesn't mount and display his kills as trophies, he merely kills and eats it as quickly as possible. A bear doesn't stick a raccoon on a stick and dangle it over water for prolonged periods of time, he goes into the water himself and catches dinner with his own paws.