True... http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?...ct&pg=sharkbait

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=na...gs+used+as+bait

Well, they just keep referencing that one article, but if the Sun's a valid source, then I guess it must be true. People never cease to disgust me anyway. I just don't understand how a hook through that part of their muzzle doesn't just rip out. That's bizarre and cruel for absolutely no purpose.

If this story is true. God help the people who are doing it. I'd like to hurt them in soooo many ways. None of them are pretty either. I'd like to use their hands & feet for chumming & then send them out into a feeding frenzy of sharks ALIVE!!!!

I don't care if they are stray animals. How can they stand to do this & think that it's OK. They have a definite screw loose. It's disgusting!!!

Also I hope that they know, what goes around comes around. I hope that they get their doseage & then some!!! I have a whole string of explatives for them!!!

Leave it to humans to be the most inhumane!!! This makes me sick, sick, sick!!!

40nrockinon

I actually heard this on the radio news last week.

I was listening to Forth One Radio, on the internet (you Scots will know what station I am talking about )... and I heard this.. I was sick to my stomach.. I couldn't imagine witnessing something like that...

This is so disgusting and very sad..I also know someone who comes from the Reunion Islands and I know for a fact that he would agree. It is so strange that some people do these things and not even think twice when for most it goes against every fibre in your body and soul.

I don't think they troll them

I think they just throw it in the water and let it swim around

Absolutely sickening, and there needs to be prison time.

let me have hold of the cruel sods....I am ashamed to be human

Something about this story doesn't seem legit.
I have been fishing a lot (not for sharks) in my day and it just doesn't seem practical to use a huge dog as bait. And if they did, the hook would be much bigger and would be more secure.
Also, a dog does not look like any natural prey of the shark. Many surfers are attacked because their wet suits make them look like seals.
I just don't see it happening. I hope I am right.

Hello Andy...Im sorry to tell you but...yes it is true here is the link to follow..it shows you the bloke that did it in court with his brief and the pictures of the poor dogs used

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005460101,,00.html

When a dog is hooked... it bleeds. When blood is in the water, sharks can smell it miles away.. and then they don't care what it is, they'll go for it. Sharks are even known to bite and attack eachother when they get into this frenzy.

is the SUn reliable?
it seems that the hooks are way too small for sharks, he would never catch a shark with those hooks...I have done A LOT of fishing, believe me, im a fishing nut . It is possible that is true, and it probably is true. WHAT AN EVIL MAN >:(

Andy R, it seems weird, but it is possible...the sharks senses blood and will eat the dog. whole chickens have been used to catch sturgeon in oregon during the 1800s

from snopes.com... click here

thanx wabbit

Dear Frogfish (),

you're very welcome

I still shudder at the sight of those pictures and the thought that anyone would do such a thing to any animal

Well, I did see the link, but I'm just not 100% convinced that it's reliable.
That hook through the little puppy's paw is WAAAYY too small.

If it is true, let's hope it's just a couple isolated incidents.

that sick rat bastard!

Im suprised you fools believe that. It's obviously a photoshopped picture. Anyone stupid enough to believe those mind tricks deserve to be used in the same idea they want you to believe is true. Its all fake. If it was an actual true story, it would be on every news source, with more then one stupid overused picture.

I just cannot grasp that you people believe this bullshit.

they're not trying to catch the sharks, they're using the dogs as bait so that tourists can witness seeing a live shark.

Somebody should tie him behind a boat and use him as bait.
Sick bastard!

I still think that if these pics and story were accurate more news-sources would have broken it than just the Sun. I think the Sun is just a tabloid mag and trying for shock story. I'm sure people do use dogs and cats for bait, I just don't think these pics are proof of that, they look very staged. As I said before, that hook would rip right out of that dog's muzzle. Give me a link where a news source other than the Sun is used as a reference and I'll re-evaluate.

Yes thats true....the other night on discovery they showed baby sharks attacking each other in the womb...glad im not a shark.

lets hope so

On some things the Sun is reliable especially when it comes to animal cruelty...here is another link ...its french but its also written in english, it shows a video of some of the rescued dogs from the island..also and most important it asked for people to sign a petition to jmake it illegal for animals to be used a shark bait....i signed it we all should

this is real
by and disturbing Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2005 at 3:31 PM

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


I would nt have believed it either if i had not read it on the RSPC website

Why in the world is a trashy British tabloid the only news source to cover this? That's just stupid. PETA should get behind it, or Friends of Animals, or anything more substantial than the Sun.

Well the sun is actually the most read newspaper in Britain. So I'm pretty sure a lot of people saw this

Really? I always thought it was the British version of the National Enquirer. Huh...

How could someone even think about doing such a thing? It's horrible.

The daily mirror covered it too

Reads title.. a little shoked reads that the animals where actually alive and...

They must be after big sharks if they are using dogs as bait. Must be after Great Whites, some people are inhumane....

This story made me more angry that I have felt for a long long time. Aaaargh!@#$!@#^$%%$&. I hope their boats sink in the midst of a shark feeding frenzy, all their homes burn down, and their wives cheat on them. After their shark-digested bodies are buried, I hope stray dogs defecate on their graves.

Quote from The Sun:

"The RSPCA plans to petition the French government, demanding an end to the hideous torture"

Try reading the "trashy" tabloid print first, yeah? The Sun is actually one of the biggest and best selling newspapers in Britain. It is also known to be quite reliable.

The Sun wasn't the only newspaper to cover this story.

Yeah, well my bad. It's just every single link about this goes back to the Sun. And the title of "tabloid" doesn't usually lend itself to newsprint of impeccable journalistic integrity.

If it was linked to the Enquirer I would have the same reaction, and lots of people read it, too.

So whats the difference between using a dog as bait, compared to using a fish as bait. The fact that the dog is alive(alledgly)? What if the dog was dead, would it be very different then. Some people keep pet fish and might think their cute and wet, just like a dog. Just questions, I dont agree with what they are doing.....

Why would it NOT be believable? There's some pretty sick bastards out there! How has it OBVIOUSLY been photoshopped?

Psh ... smart-arse!

Just when you thought mankind couldn't scoop any lower.

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I wanna Kill them! Evil people!

This story makes me angry. People eat dogs and now use them as bait. The world is really becoming a sick place, and I be more than happy to use the person who came up with this as bait. I would really like to see if he likes it. Just pure disgusting.

I like your thinking! This would be justice.

I mean really! What idiot uses puppies for shark bait? Live puppies?! Everyone knows that there is an over-population of kittens!

This is just really sad.
I am a huge animal lover, always have been and always will be. Ask my husband...if it wasn't for his straight head and logic then we would have a mini-zoo at home by now.
The sad reality is that sick things like this happen EVERY day all around the world to animals. Us animal lovers need to do something about it and I don't mean in a PETA way either (sorry I had to throw some humor in).
There are ways for us to stop it or at least get some publicity on what is happening. I would like to recommend this site: Pet-Abuse.com.
It is a database and news source of all types of animal abuse happening all around the world. You can learn about cases that are happening in your state or country and it provides you with information on who to write to urging them to change things and give a just punishment to offenders.
Please stop by this site and take a look if you get a chance. It is appalling how much animal abuse happens every day.

I have Kittens, all birthed from a stray mother!

if i could id swear. i hate the way ppl are like this. its just sick . id love to tie the ******** to a hook and drag em along for the sharks.

Poor animals... Normally I could care less for dogs.. but the people behind that should be given the same treatment. (Yes I edited myself. Let's just say what I originally was going to post had a lot of curses)

You people need a reality check.

To all you religious people out their,
Dogs and everyother animal are below us.
We are free to do whatever we want to them,
That is why God put them on this earth, in your beliefs.

And to non religious people. Dogs are still below us.
We are the top of the food chain.
It's natural life.
Getting mad at this is like getting mad at a cat for eating a beatle.

yo incarus solo YOU need a reality check
m8 do you know how sick you sound when you say that we can do whatever we want with animals?. thats wrong. it sounds like your endorsing the whole thing and i'm not one of those people who gets stressed when i see a cat chasing a fly
seriously wrong
and iv'e always hated the french but this is a new low...completely
(picks up shotgun...goes to france)

Okay, for one thing. CATS ARE HUNTERS BY NATURE! Its in their genes to eat live things, but the cat would have caught this beatle on its own. The beatle would not be on the end of a hook.

No, we are not realy top of the food chain. That is a commen mistake made by many in my opinion. Yes, we have guns and other weopons but animals have claimed the lives of many humans and humans are normaly much to weak to even fight off a few coyotes!

And, is it realy natural to drag live things from a hook in the middle of some ocean? Okay, just cause adults are above children lets all go and freakin' DRAG BABIES FROM HOOKS! Hows that sound? Im sorry, but, ergh... You sicken me. And those french people sicken me.

Oh, and before I go. A lot people cant even get out of an attack by one freakin' domestic dog without some narly injuries. In my opinion, we are near the bottom or middle of the food chain. And does god realy condone the act of causing piant to others? No, he does not. Its a sin. Very bad. Think about that.

leave him to his own menacing griffon...
lets not stoop to that level...

I use fish as shark bait...Is that really any better than dogs? No.

It's all based on perspective. Many countries treat dogs as lovable family members, while others as delectable morsels.

Oh, BTW: Stop necroposting