http://www.thesun.co.uk/a...17,00.html



Dogs used as shark bait
By IAN HEPBURN

STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal.

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

A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout - like the dog above - and another through a leg.

The pup was found in a coastal creek and is thought to have somehow freed itself from a fishing line.

But other dogs and kittens have been chomped up and swallowed by sharks.

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

eeeewwwww

THAT IS SO FUCKED... but the Sun isn't the most reliable of sources. I am going to go forth and google.

"Based on a recent Réunion newspaper article which acknowledged the practice and reported the recent prosecution of a deliveryman (and amateur fisherman) on that island over animal cruelty charges associated with the described activity, we'd have to say there is some truth to the shark-fishing claim, although the practice does not appear to be as widespread or horrific (or tolerated) as implied by recent news stories. Rather than describing hordes of shark fisherman impaling live dogs on hooks and dragging them behind boats as shark bait, the article notes that employing dogs in shark-fishing is largely the province of a small group of amateur fisherman rather than large numbers of professionals, that the dogs used are generally dead animals picked up from roadsides or culled from the island's large population of unwanted strays (estimated at 150,000), and that the no-longer-alive animals are attached to unattended buoyed "shark trap" platforms rather than dragged alive behind boats."

snopes.com is all over this shit.

http://www.snopes.com/cri...rkbait.asp

Natsume said:

I want to hump you.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

let's.

Natsume said:

I can't. I have a girlfriend. If only two months ago....

*&$#^$^@^#@%#^^@#(#&%

ReturnOfDOOK said:

I'm hitting my 2 year next month. call me when you're single. I'll do the same.

That picture will haunt me forever... Sick motherfucker's.... I swear I wish a tsunami would ravage that island...I am absolutely sickened...

Mods...please remove this pic.....

omg, the people doing this need a taste of their own medicine.

that picture is TOTALLY photoshopped.

Anxiety said:

OMG I hope so Anx I really do

If the sun reports that grass is green, I would have to go out and check to make sure. THAT is how reliable they are.

This pic isn't just a photoshop job, its a BAD photoshop job!

Is this story true? I can't find anything about it on the RSPCA website, although the link looks real enough.

Natsume said:

so this sounds like a hoax, at least to some degree.

the real story here, imo, is that in this region of France, they have 150,000 unwanted strays. THAT breaks my heart!

Whether or not this is a REAL story is only slightly jaded by the pic...I find it (photoshopped or not) very offensive... just my opinion folx!

Anxiety said:

It is...but, very disturbing and offensive nonetheless.

applekisses said:

agreed.

Natisse said:

not to be graphic, but the puncture wounds from the hooks would be messier if it were real, and it would be a stupid place to hook an animal for such a purpose anyway, if you had the stomach to really think about it for a moment (which, unfortunately, i guess i do). it's a total fake job.

the Sun is notorious for making up tales to boost sales...i hope to god this is one of those madeup stories cos the thought of that being real is turning my stomach

Anxiety said:

ReturnOfDOOK said:

They followed the story up, the day after...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/a...2,,00.html

and I'm afraid it's true.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/s...=sharkbait

ReturnOfDOOK said:

I am afraid that back in March I happpened upon a late-night investigative news programme on Danish TV2 showing that in some asian country (I didn't catch which as I can assure you I quickly zapped away), they flay dogs alive for their skin. They actually showed - albeit censored - the practice just as I happened upon the channel. I almost threw up and was haunted by it for months.

I am sick after reading that and seeing this picture.. Fucking pieces of shit should be hung by their fucking balls (or if a woman, by her fuckin clit) in the water and used as shark bait.. I am so fuckin angry right now after seeing this and reading this crap!!!!!

Anxiety said:

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