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funplanet
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RachaelRoo
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OMFG.
I found this picture very disturbing.
Now, how do they keep the dog underwater and alive for very long? Does it kick and swim, thus attracting sharks? How could this work? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Only in The Sun. |
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funplanet
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| It is pretty f* disturbing.....I don't care for dogs but I don't wish anything like this to happen to any animal.... |
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RachaelRoo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| Why dogs and kittens? How is that the best form of shark bait? Why not, like, a bloody fish or something? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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| RachaelRoo wrote: |
OMFG.
I found this picture very disturbing.
Now, how do they keep the dog underwater and alive for very long? Does it kick and swim, thus attracting sharks? How could this work? |
I suspect they troll with it. Drag it behind the boat on a line while it tries to swim on the surface. Ends up looking like a tasty seal.
I guess they should do the humane thing like we do in North America, pack our stray animals into a gas chamber and kill them that way. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:53 am Post subject: |
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It's a fake. Case being that a bucket of fish guts or chum is very cheap and easy for fishermen to acquire. A stray dog or cat may also be cheap, but would certainly not be available in high numbers (more than one fisherman spread out over weeks and months). Furthermore, you would need a LARGE amount of space on deck devoted solely to dog storage as eventually the dog would die and therfore quit wriggling. Also, the skin over the nose is very weak and would break if towed behind a boat.
Why does the dog have a hook in his nose that is being removed by a vet? Ask any fisherman or outdoorsman who has a dog. They get those hooks stuck in their faces all the damn time. I've never seen one so big, but I have routinely pulled hooks and barbs out of my chocolate lab. Dogs love to stiff out stuff like out bait and lines, then they get stuck and run off. Dogs have a higher sense of pain tolerance and can deal with it until you pull it out or take them to the vet.
Ok, now you all can sleep.
EDIT: Oh, and the Sun isn't eactly a reputable newspaper, its about one step away from reporting on the adventures of Batboy and Kylie Minogue's alien baby. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
| It's a fake. |
Damn. Here I was ready to give them some mad props for innovative thinking. |
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komtengi
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| That is absolutely disgusting. |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
EDIT: Oh, and the Sun isn't eactly a reputable newspaper, its about one step away from reporting on the adventures of Batboy and Kylie Minogue's alien baby. |
And just what do you mean by that remark, Sir?
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Demonicat wrote: |
EDIT: Oh, and the Sun isn't eactly a reputable newspaper, its about one step away from reporting on the adventures of Batboy and Kylie Minogue's alien baby. |
And just what do you mean by that remark, Sir?
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I hear John Landis is set to direct the film adaptation (of Batboy, not dogs being used as shark bait, which would make a fairly kick-ass movie in its own right).
Sparkles*_* |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Snopes has a good write up on it.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp
They have it as undetermined but they list a lot of good reasons to think this is a bit of an exaggeration. Strays might be used for shark bait but they're probably not being hooked alive. The US Army uses stray dogs to test new bullets and practise surgical techniques. We do a lot of cruel things to stray dogs ourselves. |
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