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Stop Cruelty Taking Place on the Water

Target:
French Embassy in Washington, D.C
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Convince the government to capture and imprison those using dogs and cats as shark bait. STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout, 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.
Convince the government to capture and imprison those using dogs and cats as shark bait. STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout, 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.

I am writing you this letter to convince you to take the time to think of all the cats and dogs being used as shark bait in the Indian Ocean. Think of your pets at home and try to imagine them being stuck with hooks and thrown into the ocean to be eaten and killed in order for people to capture sharks. It is a cruel and unusual method and we should do everything in our power to find the men who do this and put a stop to it immediately. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

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We signed the "Stop Cruelty Taking Place on the Water" petition!
# 632:
8:56 am PST, Jan 22, Name not displayed, Greenland
# 631:
1:36 pm PST, Jan 21, Iwona Bizukojc, United Kingdom
# 630:
12:11 pm PST, Jan 15, Kristina Duncan, Alaska
This is wrong on soo many levels. How could anyone do this? This isjust plain heartless.
# 629:
4:55 pm PST, Jan 14, Lorena Silva, Mexico
# 628:
8:46 pm PST, Jan 13, Karen Gray, Indiana
The act of using dogs as bait is vile and despicable - harsh jail terms should be imposed.
# 627:
11:33 am PST, Jan 4, Jennifer Lee, Georgia
# 626:
5:13 pm PST, Jan 2, Anita Mahdessian, South Africa
You disgusting sick people!
# 625:
5:21 am PST, Dec 30, Hara Sugar, Greece
I wish human beings could RESPECT all kinds of life!! We are not the only ones in this planet and nobody give us the right to kill or torture!!
# 624:
8:52 am PST, Dec 28, Teresa Maria Wlosowicz, Poland
Madame, Monsieur, Je suis horrifiée d'apprendre que l'on utilise des chiens vivants comme appât pour les requins. C'est vraiment inhumain et, franchement, je n'aurais jamais imaginé que des pratiques pareilles aient lieu dans un pays civilisé comme la France. Je vous prie donc de bien vouloir intervenir pour mettre fin à ces pratiques déshonorables, qui détériorent l'image de la France dans le monde. En espérant une votre compréhension, je vous prie, Madame, Monsieur, d'agréer l'expression de mes sentiments distingués. Teresa M. Wlosowicz
# 623:
7:12 am PST, Dec 27, SANDRA ROCHA, Portugal
# 622:
4:34 pm PST, Dec 18, Marie Wienholz, California
Here in the states animal abuse is a felony offense punishable by time in prison. I feel that these people should get the same punishment. Anyone who abuses a defenseless animal should be thrown in jail.
# 621:
4:28 pm PST, Dec 18, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
# 620:
4:24 am PST, Dec 18, Fotini Pazaropoulou, Greece
Soulless, inhumain monsters. They DO NOT diserve to be named humans!!! They should be hooked !!!
# 619:
2:16 am PST, Dec 18, Alessandra Carta, Italy
# 618:
9:11 am PST, Dec 17, Jean-damien SUSINI, France
# 617:
9:10 am PST, Dec 17, Annie Bertrand, France
# 616:
9:10 am PST, Dec 17, Chantal Chavassieux, France
# 615:
9:09 am PST, Dec 17, Jean Marie Trincali, France
# 614:
9:09 am PST, Dec 17, Josette Roux, France
# 613:
12:11 am PST, Dec 17, Name not displayed, Greece
# 612:
3:13 pm PST, Dec 16, Brittany Holz, Wisconsin
# 611:
12:56 am PST, Dec 16, Jessica Elks, California
This is so cruel. The people responsable should be skewered with a hook and draged behind a boat to see what it is like.
# 610:
8:37 am PST, Dec 14, Jonathan Yun, Virginia
stop feeding dogs to sharks
# 609:
2:55 am PST, Dec 13, Name not displayed, Greece
# 608:
12:46 pm PST, Dec 11, Name not displayed, Virginia
this is so awful
# 607:
4:00 pm PST, Dec 10, Nathalie Paternoster, Belgium
# 606:
4:02 pm PST, Dec 9, Loles Mateo Lasheras, Spain
# 605:
12:46 am PST, Nov 29, Anonymous ., Greece
Respect for the animals...
# 604:
1:46 am PST, Nov 28, Name not displayed, Greece
# 603:
1:03 am PST, Nov 28, KATERINA SKILLAKOU, Greece
# 602:
8:08 am PST, Nov 27, Thanasis Agelidis, Greece
# 601:
1:13 pm PST, Nov 26, GIORGOS MAKRIS, Greece
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