Live dogs used for shark bait...is this real?

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Live dogs used as shark bait

By IAN HEPBURN

STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays.
A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout - like the dog above - and another through a leg. The pup was found in a coastal creek and is thought to have somehow freed itself from a fishing line.

But other dogs and kittens have been chomped up and swallowed by sharks.

The RSPCA plans to petition the French government, demanding an end to the hideous torture.

Live Dog Used as Shark Bait—Undoubtedly, the most gut-wrenching images from 2005 appeared in October. Photos taken on the French island of Réunion depicted a labrador with a large hook and fishing line embedded in its snout. The dog, a stray, was being used as bait by a fisherman hoping to catch a shark. The photos, published in the British press, caused a minor sensation and demands for an end to the cruel practice

Can somebody please verify this?

 

[benzjamin13]

Doesn't look real. Photoshop. BUt if the story is true...that pisses me off
They need to get

 

[Havey]

This is old.

I read that the pic of the doc was takin at a vet clinic. The doc is hooked through the lips after he bit that thing and ran.

It's not a shark hook. Way to0 small. Not even close.

 

[skinless]

yes i remember this story being on television and online. can't recall sources but sounds legit.

 

[MrRngr94]

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp

 

[davo]

i dont think that pic is real, but the stories are true to my knowledge

 

[Ang]

Well i think this picture as it relates to the story is Totally fake.



Even if someone DID try that and put the hook through the dogs face like that, pulling it behind a boat would just rip the skin and you just lost your bait.
Looks like the dumb dog just got himself skewered on accident.
I've seen lots of dogs with hooks in their face.

They dont know how to bait a hook very well do they.

 

[water_baby83]

I can't confirm whether it's real or not (the story), but just the thought of it pi$$es me off more than you know! If that's how they feel about stray animals, god only knows what they might do to the homless! God thats just sick!

 

[thebestincali2000]

thats horrible,why would they do that

 

[thebestincali2000]

on another note,how do u guys feel about breeding cats for snake food