Live dogs used for shark bait...is this real?
- Thread starter Gr8KarmaSF
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well if the story is true about using stray dogs as bait why does this one have a collar?
Breeding cats as feeders is pointless in my opinion. Rabbits breed faster, grow faster and get to be bigger than cats. Not to mention that people in the western world would not agree with the method.
As for the dog thing... it is most likely fake since there are so many variations of the story with no sources and the picture is displayed in so many different way using the same dog and the same vet.
As for the dog thing... it is most likely fake since there are so many variations of the story with no sources and the picture is displayed in so many different way using the same dog and the same vet.
I think you'd catch a shark faster by using dead smelly bloody rotting fish, than a dog or a cat..
thebestincali2000;538739; said:
Its a very interesting thing to see how different animals are subjected to different moral treatment based on cultural norms.
I keep snakes. I breed rats. I feed rats to the snakes. It doesn't bother me and never will. The rats (both breeders and feeders) get treated very well and are kept in humane conditions. Your are what you eat and your snakes are only as happy/healthy as the prey they feed on.
Now, if I were to imagine my cat being fed to a burmese python, I'd probably be sick.
I try to keep a consistent moral belief and in all honesty, if someone chose to use cats as food for snakes (I know it was a joke but just for discussion purposes) and treated the feeders in a humane way, I don't think I could have any major objections other than just the fact that I didn't like it because I like cats.
It just bothers me when people pick and choose when they want to object to without any form of consistency in their beliefs.
In any event, I think that the use of live mammals for shark bait is not a humane practice given the special circumstances of the situation. While feeding a live rat to a snake in a dry enclosure is acceptable to me, dragging a live mammal through the water on a hook is NOT humane treatment. In the case of humane treatment of live feeders, I believe the means are just as important as the end.
IF it is true, its a very sick way of doing it. Would be a VERY painful death for the dog, and as for mans best friend?!? Somebody said it would be easier to use fish etc, well (asuming its true) we dont know ANYTHING about the type of people choosing(?) to use dogs this way. They could VERY poor and using stray dogs (large bait) for free which would seem like a good way to catch a shark. (Food purpose?). Add abit of the blood/fish and you have some thing easy to catch your shark with. Not up on hooks you would use, but generally, when you feed/catch sharks you dont really use live. Aslong as you have the right stuff in the water (again blood and fish etc) a hungry shark will bite on what looks like an ill bit of prey (a dog trying to stay alive in the water). Perfectly veesable if done right, however, IMO extremely cruel. But then I dont really agree with the feeding of live mammals to another animal whether it be a rat on land or dog in water (IMO). 
