Philistine French Use Puppies as Shark Bait Sez Bardot

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.

And they call themselves civilized?

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