Dogs used as bait for sharks!

[joe123321]

Heres a Link to the petition if you want to sign http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/sto...as- shark-bait

Heres the national geographic article.

Dogs Used as Shark Bait on French Island

[Jon]

I never heard of that before, but I know that when my wife and I were down in Belize a few years back people were using them to bait alligators with. I think that there was even a big uproar because many of the hotels were paying a bounty to those who killed stray dogs on the island.


Jon

[Adrian]

That makes me sick! I hope it gets stopped.

[tonyiannu]

I dont belive it and the hook is far to small to catch a shark.If it is true it's really disgusting they must be stopped. .

[sinkweight]

I've never had shark before...at least not knowingly. Is it that good, or are people just that tired of stray animals? Why not just eat the stray animals, and save yourself a sunburn and tackle. I've never had dog before...at least not knowingly.

[podge]

That’s sick

[freespirit]

Well, unfortunetly, it seems it has been a very common practice with cats and kittens a long time ago. I don`t remember where i saw this, but i remember to see, and after that to read about it, as a very usual thing among professional and sport fishermen and in several points of the globe, and cats where the most used and preferred baits, much more than dogs...
It just happened to be turned out to public now, but it is really an ancient thing...

It`s really a shame and unbelievable that this kind of procedures still happen in our days!!! We "human" still are real savages...

[Marwan]

I dont believe it, i think some chum and maybe live bait would be more effective, why would they use dogs, cats etc.... that would be sick if it were true of course

[Deepwater]

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Pretty Sick.

Use the person hooking up the poor pooch for bait instead.
I heard that in some areas of Africa, they were using orphans as bait for crocodiles. Might be a rumour but who knows these days.

I think I will hug my labarador a bit extra from now on.
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[deep thinker]

Thats not cool man, not cool at all
Why would someone use a dog as bait, something is seriously wrong with humanity me thinks...

[Shadowkiller]

Thats an awesome photoshopping job!

Note the lack of blood, and the fact the dog is not in fact going nuts (my dog was hooked on a lure, and it took 2 people to hold him down to remove it, and he's a terrier weighing 4kg). Not to mention that the hook presentation is such that it would not hook a shark unless the shark swallowed the entire dog.

And finally: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dogs as Shark Bait

[naiad]

I did think it looked a bit strange - if it had really been found hooked like that, there would be bleeding and swelling, and there does not appear to be any. Probably a Photoshop job.

If strays are being killed anyway, and the dead animals are being used as bait, that is a different matter. Of course it is upsetting that strays have to be destroyed, but stray domestic animals are a massive problem in many countries. Here in the UK, thousands of dogs, cats and probably other animals are put down each year because people don't want or can't be bothered to have their pets neutered. The numbers are such that it is impossible to find good homes for all of them.

The issue of fishing for sharks is yet another matter - if they are endangered, or if there are cruel and wasteful practices such as finning, people should campaign directly for this to stop.

[tonyiannu]

C'mon there are thousand of bait,do you really need a dog? .

[freespirit]

In spite of the strange picture, which even to me, doesn`t look much convincing because of it`s clean look, i`m sure that i`ve already read about it for the first time, many years ago in a newspaper (a Portuguese newspaper), and after it, in some TVnews (i think portuguese too), of such practices like using live cats and kittens as baits for shark fishing.
Nevertheless, they (the fishers), didn`t hook the cats the way it is shown in the picture, they simply used to lace them around the body (harness type) and then they would let them naturally struggle in the water (the animal trying not to get drown), what seemed to be the most significant "advantage of this baits" (not counting with economic factor, cat`s for free...), as the noise and uncoordinated vibrations in the water would be the right calling for the sharks. Don`t remember if this was used with any other technique, like blood or something in the water, i just remember the images of the cats hanging in ropes, also the images of them struggling when submerged in the water and then (but this only in photograph) of a shark bitting the tip of such a rope.

But now, just one thing more.
I don`t remember if in the end they would let the cats and kittens be eaten by the sharks or, if they just used the pets for a shark approach thanks to the natural panic the first ones making such a noise in the water. It is possible that the only real torture was the cat being thrown to the water and almost drown and then being pulled out of the water again over and over again... and not to serve as a meal (I am sincerely trying to convince myself to believe it was something more like this...).
Anyway stills wrong

[Lockedin]

Here's my .02:

Found this:
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dogs as Shark Bait
Seems like a pretty fair assesment. I still say the photo (IMHO) is manipulated re:

Lack of blood, lack of swelling (I think that a double hook that size would inflict some pretty severe trauma while displacing the soft flesh in that area - especially study the right hand "piercing", VERY, VERY, clean. Don't you think?).

Poor hook placement - the hook would probably rip out of the soft flesh in that area if the fisherman attempted to tow the dog. Incidentally, I'm a video professional, and the above are common mistakes made by new graphic artists, the real pros have it down to a science.

The article mentions fishing with road kill, which makes sense But it also mentions that amateurs are more likely to try live dogs, which also makes sense: The pros know which bait to use to get their catch, and dog is not on that list.

MedicofOne should look at this and asses...