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Dogs being used as shark bait - SIGN PETITION!

Posted : 7/5/2007 5:09:48 PM

Stop Dogs Being Used As Shark Bait

Target:French Embassy in Washington, D.C
Created by:[linkhttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/feedback/121875631]Makayla Green[/link]
STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout
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.

[link http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-dogs-being-used-as-shark-bait >http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_dogs_sharks.html]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_dogs_sharks.html[/link] http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-dogs-being-used-as-shark-bait Angry

rwbeagles

Posted : 7/5/2007 5:23:45 PM

Just to balance this out...just information, not a reflection of my opinion.
[linkhttp://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp]http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp[/link]

Bobsk8

Posted : 7/5/2007 7:59:03 PM

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

Just to balance this out...just information, not a reflection of my opinion.
[linkhttp://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp]http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp[/link]

I would think that a link with a couple of fish hooks though the dog's nose, would have some kind of graphic warning attached to it.....[&:] And how does your post "balance this out"?

janet_rose

Posted : 7/5/2007 10:19:25 PM

And how does your post "balance this out"?

Read the letter at the bottom of the page. The practice has been banned for decades. Cases are investigated and prosecuted, so [font=verdana]the purpose for the petition over a 2005 news article is ???[/font]

ETA: The same picture is on the sites posted by the OP.

Bobsk8

Posted : 7/6/2007 7:26:27 AM

ORIGINAL: janet_rose

And how does your post "balance this out"?

Read the letter at the bottom of the page. The practice has been banned for decades. Cases are investigated and prosecuted, so [font="verdana"]the purpose for the petition over a 2005 news article is ???[/font]

ETA: The same picture is on the sites posted by the OP.

I realize it is the same picture..... I still think it merits a "graphic remark". I didn't see anything about it "being banned for decades"

One good thing in France , is that they have a mandatory S/N law which has been in effect since 2001 and reduces the number of stray pets that might be used for this purpose.

janet_rose

Posted : 7/6/2007 7:50:17 AM

I didn't see anything about it "being banned for decades"

I can't cut and paste from the site, but the phrase is in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the letter from the press office of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.
[linkhttp://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp]www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp[/link]