Stray and stolen dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live baits by amateur fisherman on Reunion Island (a French controlled island for the coast of Southern Africa east of Madagascar).
First spotted in 2005 by European media, the practise still continues in secret today. Scientific studies states the island is bursting with over 150,000 stray dogs. Many locals view all dogs as vermin and because of this they don’t care about the animals rights.
October of 2005, the first court case was held involving a person charged with using live dogs as bait. Authorities had found a seven-month-old puppy on John Claude Clain's property in July with three fishing hooks in its paws and snout.
Clain, a 51-year-old bread delivery person, was found guilty of animal cruelty and fined 5,000 Euros (U.S. $5,982), according to Clicanoo, a Réunion newspaper.
According to the same newspaper.
- Once a dog is capture they are hooked, the day before, so they can bleed sufficiently.
- Some escape before being tossed into the ocean. Others aren't so lucky.
- After hooks are plunged into their paws and/or snouts, the animals are attached to inflatable tubes with fishing line and dumped into the ocean.
-To avoid detection fishers place their bait in the middle of the night, according to the newspaper account. In the morning the men return to see if a shark has been caught.
- Such a horrific way to die.
It has now become illegal for fishing boats to carry any live or dead dogs on the island.
The French Embassy in Washington, D.C., issued a written statement condemning the use of dogs as shark bait, emphasizing that such acts are illegal and will not be tolerated in the French territory.
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Join with The Black Book Organisation and with our animal rights partner. We will continue the effort off stamping out the use of dogs as bait. Through continued pressure on the government, Together we will give these dogs a voice.
stop using dogs as bait it nasty i think the people who are using the dogs should be hoked and cut and then be used as lvie shark bait see how they like it
ReplyDeletethose people need to be hooked and let them bleedd till almost dead then dragged though the ocean but pulled up when a shark has eaten half of their body then left to suffer for the rest of thier lives (while they are still alive at least)
ReplyDeleteGods will is waiting patiently.
ReplyDeletethose pricks should go and chop ther fingers and toes of and bleed to death!!
ReplyDeleteThat is so mean! How could such a monster look into those eyes and still do that! And then, be able to sleep at night! we should stop this right NOW! Hold a repitition thing!
ReplyDeletetheyll pay sooner or later even if takes up their generatations
ReplyDeletegod is always fair
i will kill these fisher men who in the **** do they think they r how would they likeit if we did that to them these dogs desurve a chance to live.
ReplyDeleteYOU DOUN'T GET IT DO YOU DOGS ARE SO INICENT AND CAT BUT YOU SURE DOUN'T CARE BUT WE DO......
ReplyDeleteoNLY IDIOTS WOULD KILL DOGS AND CATS.I WOULDNT. eVEN IF DOGS GET ABUSED THEY STILL ARE LOYAL TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT KILL DOGS AND CATS!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWHY ARE PEOPLE SO MEAN TO ANIMALS????
ReplyDeleteWHY WOULD YOU DO THAT DOGS AND CATS THEY ARE SO RESPECTFUL AND LOVEBLE AND LOYAL YOU SHOULD STOP OR MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BRING FISHERMANS TO COURT AND ARESSET YOU!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteonly if i had a chance to meet one of these people..i cant imagine what am i going to do with them..i try to think the pain i will cause them and i fear my self..
ReplyDeleteAsk the French how they treat live geese that become the main ingredient for goose liver pate. just as sickening as this story of use of live dogs and cats.
ReplyDeletethsoe ass holes i think should burn in hell for there punishment dogs and other animals dont deserve to be hookend on to a hook and be drowned to death or be used as bait for fish thats just wrong those people should be hooked and see how it feels
ReplyDeleteRead about this almost made me throw up on my desk top...I adopted two cats of my own. I rescued them. I wish I could rescue all of those poor dogs and cats being used and abused. I want those dirty, lifeless, scoundrills to be hung by their lips and dragged through the ocean only to be bitten alive by the sharks that surface for meal-time.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem is a little more than fisherman using dogs as bait. You have a small island with 150,000 stray dogs! What are you supposed to do with them? I DON'T condone the practice of using them as bait, but I can understand it. People use LIVE worms and LIVE fish as bait....is there really a difference? I live in the US in the state of MN. One of our neighboring states recently declared any cat found without a collar to be considered vermin and as such could be shot without a hunting license. This is how they are dealing with a runaway cat population....a little more humane perhaps than Reunion's solution for dogs.
ReplyDeletePlease give us an e-mail address to write in protest. Please ensure that major media around the world publicize this torture, and ensure that the criminals are prosecuted and jailed for life.
ReplyDeleteTHESE PEOPLE ARE SICK THEY NEED TO GO TO JAIL FOR THERE HOLE LIFE AND IT SHOULD BE A LAW TO USE ANIMALS AS SHARK BATE THESE PEOPLE ARE GROSS AND NEED TO LEARN THAT IF YOU GET TO LIVE THE ANIMALS GET TO LIVE HOW WOULD THEY FEEL IF THEY WERE SHARK BATE I HATE THESE PEOPLE
ReplyDeleteI think that the media should get a hold of this and let eveyone know what happening
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