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| Brigitte Bardot calls for halt to use of puppies as shark bait |
| 2005-08-25 |
| 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. Yuck. Animals have no "rights," but I hate things like this. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #11 Reunion is kind of in the middle of nowhere, so the allegations are probably true. Still, the fishermen could be from Kenya, Mozambique, Malagasy, the Seychelles, Somalia and Yemen. All these countries have a history of harvesting sharks for food and other uses. I'm not worried much about losing any of my cats - it's 1200 miles to the nearest ocean. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-08-25 23:21 |
| #10 ref the bottom of the snopes page - substitute .asp for the .jpg - they won't allow hotlinking |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-25 22:32 |
| #9 No idea why that link isn't working. Perhaps someone else can explain. |
| Posted by: DanNY 2005-08-25 22:27 |
| #8 Quick! Throw it overboard, hook or no!!! |
| Posted by: DanNY 2005-08-25 22:24 |
| #7 This has urban legend written all over it. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-08-25 21:42 |
| #6 Only one kinda good dawg fishing... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-08-25 19:46 |
| #5 Actually, I like the shark bait used in the movie "Team America" -- Hans "Brix" Blix. |
| Posted by: VRWconspiracy 2005-08-25 13:42 |
| #4 ... that is officially disgusting. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-08-25 13:35 |
| #3 Oh no! Not puppies. Other possible acceptable shark bait. Please add to the list as you see fit. 1. Michael Moore 2. Jane Fonda 3. Main Stream Media 4. Left wing Demos (is there any other kind?) 5. George Soros 6. Hollywood lefties 7. Sean Penn |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-08-25 13:34 |
| #2 um. nevermined. em sharks problee wuldnt tuch em. problee getter lotta catfish akshen tho. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-08-25 13:26 |
| #1 kan we yoos phrench fishemen fore sharkbayte? >:( |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-08-25 13:25 |