French Slut Tries to Prevent Heroic Fisherman from Catching Sharks

[Bono]

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Brigitte Bardot calls for halt to use of puppies as shark bait
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Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait.

"It is imperative that the government does something to end this practice," she said in a letter to the minister for French overseas territories, Francois Baroin, a copy of which was given to AFP Thursday.

According to Clicanoo, a newspaper in Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, a six-month-old puppy was found last month with hooks implanted in its snout and one of its legs.

The French Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) told the daily the dog was the victim of cruel fishermen who attract sharks by throwing puppies or kittens into the water, tied to fishing lines, and wait for the predators to swallow the thrashing animals.

"We don't see that every day, but it's not the first time, either," Marie-Annick Chantrel, the vice-president of the Reunion branch of the SPA, told Clicanoo. "We've already seen cats six or seven months old with hooks in them."

Bardot told Baroin that "unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island."

The campaigner, who runs an animal defence association, said she had written to authorities on the island to have them put a stop to the crime.

[John Dibble]

Well, provided this is actually happening, I agree with the animal rights people on this.

[Jake]

There's no reason someone shouldn't be allowed to fish with their dog or cat. I'd prefer if it was dead first, but then again, I'm not sure how that would affect the whole process.

[John Dibble]

There's no reason someone shouldn't be allowed to fish with their dog or cat. I'd prefer if it was dead first, but then again, I'm not sure how that would affect the whole process.

Well, I find that to be an unnecessarily cruel way to treat the animal. I'm fine with using animals for eating and whatnot, but it just strikes me as wrong to treat them in a cruel, painful way that is not necessary to attain your goals.

Now, there are practial reasons why you wouldn't want it to be alive anyways - sharks are more likely to strike at something that's dead. They prefer to bite their prey, let it bleed to death, and then chow down. This was confirmed with a study using two fake divers with dead fish in a bag on their sides and each was on the side of a boat - one of the dummies had legs that moved, while the other had non-moving legs. The sharks that eventually showed up didn't even touch the moving diver, while the other one got a few chunks bitten out of it. If you want to catch sharks, just buy some sufficiently large dead fish from your local market or catch one yourself, and use that, maybe using some chum to attrack the sharks. There's really actually no practical reason to use a puppy or kitten, which are likely more expensive than buying a dead fish, considering these animals are about six months old and even if you had a dog birth them you still have to feed them, much less a living one.

[AkSaber]

Live puppies and kittens??!! That's horrible!!!!!!!

[The Dowager Mod]

So being opposed to using live animals as bait makes her a slut?
i'm confused.

[Speed of Sound]

So being opposed to using live animals as bait makes her a slut?
i'm confused.

apparently

[A18]

This should obviously be allowed.

[Hatman 🍁]

The fact that anyone would support using puppies and kittens as shark bait shows the heartlessness of the far right who supports this. Anyone who thinks this, should be used as live shark bait themselves.

[WMS]

Live puppies and kittens??!! That's horrible!!!!!!!

Indeed - this is animal cruelty.

[A18]

I'm fine with kittens. As for puppies, depends on the breed.

[Jake]

Funny that Earl should mention far-right wingers, as Bardot would fit that category. A former pioneer sex kitten, homophobe, Islamophobe, and Le-Pen supporter and now animal "rights" activist. Nice mix

[Giant Saguaro]

This is not in any way, shape, or form a condonable practice. For all the things that get called animal cruelty, this indeed is. If you pay attention to news, you realize that people in the U.S. can get called on the carpet for all sorts of things related to outdoor conditions for animals. I'm not an animal person myself (never owned a dog), but there was the thing in Frisco, I believe, about dog houses needing to have insulation or the equivalent of AC a year or so ago, so while the animal rights people can certainly be outright nutwing at worst and nitpicky at best many times, this is truly an example of animal cruelty.

[A18]

Why is it okay to be cruel to animals you don't like, but not to animals you do like?

[Gabu]

Holy crap, this is both horrible and disgusting.

There are times when animal rights activists are being trivial and are simply hell-bent on inconveniencing humans.  I have to say that this is not one of them.

[John Dibble]

Why is it okay to be cruel to animals you don't like, but not to animals you do like?

I don' think anyone here has said any such thing. Like I said, I dislike unnecessary cruelty to animals, and quite frankly this is completely unnecessary. I imagine that to raise and slaughter a cow for the purpose of eating, some degree of pain or discomfort on the part of the cow will be needed, but I'm not going to put the cow through any more pain than is necessary to achieve my objective. It is completely unnecessary, and actually impractical as I've stated, to use a live dog or cat to catch a shark - people have actually managed to catch sharks without the use of such bait for a long time now.

[© tweed]

I'm not an animal rights activist by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe dogs and cats shouldn't be treated like objects and used for bait when alive.  (Worms are a different story in my opinion).  This kind of stuff is sickening.

I guess dead cats and dogs would be fine, as long as they weren't murdered and rathe died naturally.

[Hatman 🍁]

Funny that Earl should mention far-right wingers, as Bardot would fit that category. A former pioneer sex kitten, homophobe, Islamophobe, and Le-Pen supporter and now animal "rights" activist. Nice mix

Well, it's nice to see that not all right wing nut jobs are always right wing nut jobs

[The Duke]

Feeding puppies and kittens to sharks.  This is a bit cartoonish its so offensive.

[J. J.]

Isn't "French Slut" a bit of a redundancy?

[opebo]

Isn't "French Slut" a bit of a redundancy?

LOL quite true.

Any male who considers 'sluts' inferior to non-sluts is an idiot.  Or a masochist.

[Platypus]

Funny that Earl should mention far-right wingers, as Bardot would fit that category. A former pioneer sex kitten, homophobe, Islamophobe, and Le-Pen supporter and now animal "rights" activist. Nice mix

I hate how people aren't allowed to have views that cross political divides. It's false and stupid. You might be a democrt or republican, but that doesn't mean you have to dismiss all policies of the other side.

[Jake]

Um, I was refuting Earl's statement that right wingers support this stuff by pointing out that she was a right winger. I don't know what you're going on about. I personally couldn't care less what she thinks.

[Hatman 🍁]

Um, I was refuting Earl's statement that right wingers support this stuff by pointing out that she was a right winger. I don't know what you're going on about. I personally couldn't care less what she thinks.

Im pointing out that those on the forum who support this are all extreme right wingers. Just pointing out a correlation. You can prove me wrong when BRTD, Opebo or Jfern state that feeding puppies and kittens to sharks are a good thing.

[Bono]

So being opposed to using live animals as bait makes her a slut?
i'm confused.

No, being a slut makes her a slut.