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30-09-2005, 11:07 AM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: West Lothian in Scotland.
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| |  This is absolutely deplorable!!!!!!
[SIZE=2]PLEASE[/SIZE] sign the petition to stop this barbaric and sickening practice!!! Thank you. Warning - you may find the image in the following link distressing http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Sate...t&pg=sharkbait |
30-09-2005, 02:53 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004
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| | | Reminds me of the time I saw young boys fishing, ripping the claws off live crabs to use as bait - I too, was most upset by the practice and voiced my opinions accordingly. |
30-09-2005, 04:49 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Originally Posted by Eileen | The image is distressing - all the more reason to sign the petition. Thank you for bringing it to our attention, Eileen.
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30-09-2005, 09:14 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Guildford Surrey
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| | | These People don't deserve to be on this earth, they're deplorable. I haven't in a long time found anything so sickening! |
01-10-2005, 03:47 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Originally Posted by Pat These People don't deserve to be on this earth, they're deplorable. | Pat, These are people of a different culture to our own. What they need is educating rather than being told they don't deserve to be on this earth. Until we knew better we did, I am sure, many horrendous things to animals. They are doing it to try and increase their incomes. Does Badger baiting (which although is illegal still takes place) increase anyones' income? Please sign the petition and try to get it stopped. |
01-10-2005, 04:30 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | dogs and sharks
 i do not think anyone should be fishing for sharks no matter what the bait
so i have signed the petition |
06-10-2005, 11:58 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
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| | | There have not been many replies to this thread. I just hope that all of the 80+ viewers have signed the petition. |
06-10-2005, 02:10 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Guildford Surrey
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| | | Perhaps members could let us know who has ! |
06-10-2005, 03:50 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: May 2005
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| | | I did - and forwarded the link on |
07-10-2005, 01:29 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005
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| | | This may put a few minds at rest
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp |
09-10-2005, 05:33 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: East Sussex
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| | | Thanks Imaginos.
I must admit to some scepticism about the photo, which didn't seem to be evidence of anything to do with shark fishing in a remote part of the world. That's not to say it's a faked photo, but just that the context is wholly unclear. |
09-10-2005, 07:45 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: East Sussex
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| | | I've done a bit more googling, and it seems very unclear.
There's genuine video of the dog being treated by vets. There are also reports that a lone fisherman has had a minor rap on the knuckles from a local court. It doesn't sound like this is systematic, and I'm wholly clear whether the video relates to the guy who was charged.
I am somewhat dismayed that the RSPCA appeal begins by referring to 'pets' being used in this way. No evidence of that at all as far as I can see. And anyway animals are no less in need of protection when they are not pets. Is this about cruelty to cuddly 'pets', ill-treatment of dogs (which aren't pets), or an attack on shark fishing? Probably a combination of both. A French woman on another board I look at confirms that it is generating strong revulsion in France, so some good is coming from it. |
10-10-2005, 04:36 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
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| | | I signed and put it on the works Intranet for global exposure |
10-10-2005, 07:14 PM
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| | Good for you Boddie.  | | |
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