Dogs as shark bait?

fade2black

Have a look at this:

http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=sharkbait

And this:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450292,00.html

Shocking I hear you all cry.

Ok, now take a look at this

Doctored pic? Doctored story? What's the point?

Rhyme

Im actually feeling physically ill here, doctored pic obviously but still my stomach is turning.

Rb

Most likely a doctored photo, but if the rspca are talking about it it could well be a true story, and if so then it's absolutely disgusting.

Hagar

What, are we out of Romanians already?

jesus_thats_gre

The dog doesnt exactly look to be in distress..

Sparky

even so somebody using dogs as bait makes me angry, id love to kill the fckers who do it.

jonny68

Ive dogs myself and grew up with them and this disgusts me,i would personally do the same to these bast**ds i would use THEM as shark bait :mad:

doctor evil

I doubt it was true, the sun aren`t the most reliable.

It doesn`t make sense to put a hook through the nose as it would probaly tear, something like a harness would be better.

Giblet

Haha, not real.

Endurance Man

I would enjoy putting a shotgun to the persons groin :mad: .

county

it is quite funny though ,the picture of the dog just cracks me up

jonny68

county wrote:

it is quite funny though ,the picture of the dog just cracks me up

You warped scum*ag :mad:

StupidLikeAFox

Its only a dog, its not like it has feelings or anything

jonny68

ColHol wrote:

Its only a dog, its not like it has feelings or anything

Fu*k off and die you c*nt how's about i put a spike through your mouth and use you as bait,i despise people like you :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Sarky

It's the reactions to threads like this that make me wonder if I really was the only person who fell over laughing when Brian from Spaced talked about his dog Colin's untimely death at the wheels of an articulated lorry.

"The colours... So vibrant!"

And yes, I love dogs.

jonny68

Sarky wrote:

It's the reactions to threads like this that make me wonder if I really was the only person who fell over laughing when Brian from Spaced talked about his dog Colin's untimely death at the wheels of an articulated lorry.

"The colours... So vibrant!"

some of us are animal lovers and for me it would be dogs in particular,personally speaking if i seen anyone harming any animal and dogs in particular i would kick the living c*ap out of them,and it's not very clever or mature to joke about dogs getting mutilated or killed now is it. :mad:

NoDayBut2Day

Uhh... it's just sad and inhumane cruelty to animals. Some weird people nowadays... :mad:

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Bollocks is it real... the dog has a collar on, who the fsck puts a collar on something it's about to drown / feed to a shark? In case the wee bowser gets lost under the sea and the magic mermaid takes it home?

Bollocks.

Sarky

And did you ever stop to think about how the poor shark felt?

jonny68

Bob wrote:

Bollocks is it real... the dog has a collar on, who the fsck puts a collar on something it's about to drown / feed to a shark? In case the wee bowser gets lost under the sea and the magic mermaid takes it home?

Bollocks.

If it's not real then why then are the RSPCA advertising it?This DOES happen believe me,ive heard about this sort of thing before way before that rag the sun published this story,this does happen unfortunately,those responsible deserve life in prison use them as shark bait the choice can be theirs.

jonny68

Sarky wrote:

And did you ever stop to think about how the poor shark felt?

you've got one weird sense of humour either that or your just bad at sarcasm

StupidLikeAFox

jonny68 wrote:

how's about i put a spike through your mouth and use you as bait

ooooh stop, do you charge by the hour?

jonny68

ColHol wrote:

ooooh stop, do you charge by the hour?

no but your ma does

Sarky

I take extreme offence to that. Do you think dogs are the only animals that feel pain? The shark has it worse off. How do think IT dies? Merciful lethal injection? A bullet to the head?

jonny68

Sarky wrote:

I take extreme offence to that. Do you think dogs are the only animals that feel pain? The shark has it worse off. How do think IT dies? Merciful lethal injection? A bullet to the head?

This issue isn't about sharks though is it,of course cruelty to ANY animal is wrong and should be roundly condemned.

fade2black

1. No dog would allow someone to shove a hook of that size through it's upper lip - one of the most sensitive parts of a dog.
2. There is no evidence of traumatic injury which one would expect to see from a struggling dog or from prongs being pushed through flesh.
3. The hooks are simply not suitable for shark-fishing. The gape (distance between the hook-point and the shank) is too narrow and the length of the shank is too long. There is no way that a hook of that depiction would even stick into a sharks mouth.
4. The hook is barbless. Anyone who's used barbless hooks knows that they will just fall out unless constant pressure is applied. So the dog would just have to shake it's head and the entire contraption would fall out. So would the shark so again it's useless for shark-fishing; all shark hooks are barbed.
5. The article mentions that the dogs legs are tied together with wire....why? The dog would just sink and sharks are attracted as much to the noise of an injured or unusual swimmer as they are to the scent. A lump of furry meat sinking to the bottom wouldn't attract anything until it had been dead for a few days.
6. Hooking a dog through the lip is pointless and impractical. The minute the dog hit the water, the pressure from the tow would cause the hook to be torn from the lip immediately. What's the point fishing with an unbaited hook?
7. The dogs mouth is open. If it was being towed, the mouth would fill with water and the dog would simply skate across the surface of the sea while at the same time making sure the hook was ripped out.

if you're going to use a dog as sharkbait you'd need to place treble hooks into the back of its neck and rump, inject it with a gallon of fish-oil, sew its lips together and cut of its legs so that it's more aero-dynamic. You'd also have to sew on some pectoral fins to stop it spinning around underwater and tangling the line. Which is why most shark fishermen would sooner use a fish as bait.

Sarky

Johnny68 wrote:

This issue isn't about sharks though is it,of course cruelty to ANY animal is wrong and should be roundly condemned.

By rounding up the animals responsible and being even crueller to them, eh?

jonny68

Sarky wrote:

By rounding up the animals responsible and being even crueller to them, eh?

Anyone guilty of cruelty to animals for me deserves life in prison period,there is no excuse for it whatsoever,it is barbarbic,end of story...im away for tonite

StupidLikeAFox

jonny68 wrote:

Anyone guilty of cruelty to animals for me deserves life in prison period,there is no excuse for it whatsoever,it is barbarbic,end of story...im away for tonite

Hmmmm, you might be making a point, that dog may have made a nice stew or something. At the end of the day, maybe if we feed the sharks enough dogs they will stop eating people, wouldnt that surely be a step in the right direction?

Sarky

Ah, so now it's life in prison? What happened to pushing spikes through their faces and using them as shark bait, or kicking the living "c**p" out of them?

Hagar

Dogs as shark bait... Photoshoppage as muppet bait...

There was a fair few caught here today.

kjt

ColHol wrote:

Its only a dog, its not like it has feelings or anything

jonny68 wrote:

Fu*k off and die you c*nt how's about i put a spike through your mouth and use you as bait,i despise people like you :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Very well said!!!

kjt

Hagar wrote:

Dogs as shark bait... Photoshoppage as muppet bait...

There was a fair few caught here today.

ahhaahaha thats great.

Giblet

This thread has run it's course. Anyone who has ever gone Shark fishing (myself included) knows that this is bull.