Brigitte Bardot calls for halt to use of puppies as shark bait (Beware queasy alert)

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[Syntyr]

Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait.

"It is imperative that the government does something to end this practice," she said in a letter to the minister for French overseas territories, Francois Baroin, a copy of which was given to AFP Thursday.

According to Clicanoo, a newspaper in Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, a six-month-old puppy was found last month with hooks implanted in its snout and one of its legs.

The French Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) told the daily the dog was the victim of cruel fishermen who attract sharks by throwing puppies or kittens into the water, tied to fishing lines, and wait for the predators to swallow the thrashing animals.

"We don't see that every day, but it's not the first time, either," Marie-Annick Chantrel, the vice-president of the Reunion branch of the SPA, told Clicanoo. "We've already seen cats six or seven months old with hooks in them."

Bardot told Baroin that "unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island."

The campaigner, who runs an animal defence association, said she had written to authorities on the island to have them put a stop to the crime.

[Syntyr]

If this is true I will agree with her on this one. Use the live French as shark bait!

[hang 'em]

Bush and the EVIL Karl Rove did it.

[Virginia Queen]

They should be using French frogs.

[darkwing104]

This is just plain sick...Those Bas#@rds!

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

It's OK by me to use cats for shark bait, but not dogs or puppies. And yes - using frogs as bait is always acceptable.

[SJSAMPLE]

Once again, "cute and cuddly" animals get a free pass ;)
All others, "Get in the slaughter line!"

[misterrob]

Nah, sharks don't like French....causes the runs from what I am told.

[wideawake]

I doubt the fishermen are ethnic French.

The Reunion working classes are African, Chinese and IndoPak.

[daniel boob]

Damn. If I agree with her does that make me a liberal?

[Caipirabob]

Jeez, what ARE these freaks? Democrats?!?

[NRA1995]

[teenyelliott]

Eat the ugly

Pet the cute

It's the way of the civilized world.

[RetroSexual]

Why do people fish for sharks? Are they tasty?

Anyway, I think the Ann Coulter rule should be in effect here:

[Integrityrocks]

What's the problem? As long as they are sedated first and "feel no pain!" That's the argument the Left uses for killing unborn humans! Puppies and kittens, no problem!

[Textide]

She's a pretty conservative lady IIRC. Have you forgotten the picture rule for postable babes?

[exile]

Ok, the next time I go shark fishing, I'll use a baby seal as bait.

[najida]

My problem is they all are cute.

[CommandoFrank]

Let me get this straight... Save the kitties and puppies but kill the human fetus's.

Yea, gotcha!!!!

[Frank L]

Or it could be the same reason they avoid lawyers- professional courtesy.

[Fierce Allegiance]

My problem is they all are cute.

And tasty!