Kittens Used As Bait… To SCAM Animal Lovers

15 by LiveOAK Staff on January 29, 2009

Using kittens as bait is morally and ethically reprehensible whether you are putting them on fish hooks to catch sharks, or putting them in a hoax video to scam animal lovers out of a few bucks.

This video is circulating around the web and purports to some undercover footage of “rich white American Anglers” using live kittens as shark bait. SHOCKING… and fortunately not true…

If you go to these scammers website they have an even more ridiculous video that claims that…

“The Human Society of America has announced overcrowding in their shelters by cats and kittens as a result of global warming.Earth's warming temperatures have caused longer and more frequent breeding seasons.”

… and now, they claim, fisherman are using these cats and kittens as bait. The idea of global warming affecting the cat population is not completely unfounded, but it has nothing to do with this scam, other than to add another hot-button issue in a poor attempt to legitimize their claims.

What is the “HUMAN Society of America?” Cleary they expect you to read it as the HUMANE Society who have assured me that they have never made any such announcement.

Why would they do this? To sell $20 t-shirts. As they state on their website: “We are a for-profit Florida Corporation." They claim to give a percentage of their profits to PETA, the HUMANE Society and the SPCA. What percentage? 0.00000000001% maybe? Nah, probably not that much. When I contacted the Humane Society they also assured me they are not receiving any money from this site.

The bottom line is this is a scam. They are unscrupulously taking advantage of REAL animal lovers. So unless you want to pad the pockets of Grady Warren and detract from real animal cruelty causes save you money or give it directly to one of those organizations that Warren claims to support.

If you are interested in donating money to help combat animal cruelty here’s a couple places to start…

Feel free to comment about your favorite organization that fights Animal Cruelty.

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Scotty

Hehehe…
Anyone who has EVER thought this was real is…
Well…

Not very aware?

Kittens as bait…
Seriously?

Hilarious video….as for a scam…
This site is more of a scam. than this video. About Kittens. and scamming.
http://www.animaldanger.com Dangerous Animals

awww, drat. the video is no longer available anywhere else to go to see it?
-Rich

http://greenupgrader.com Matt Embrey

I updated the video, thanks for the heads up.

checkyoursources

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_dogs_sharks.html

http://greenupgrader.com Matt Embrey

Yes, I am aware of that story. It is a terrible thing that happened, however, it does not validate this scam. Many scams are based on an actual event.

aly

yeah, off of france they use stray dogs and cats, not exactly kittens but, really, THAT has got to stop, use chum, not animals

Zippocat

if you don’t believe that real people out there never used cats or kittens as fishing bait for large sharks or marlins, you are dillusional
http://ÿþH Abused Johnny

Good morning, I don’t agree with everything in this write-up, but you do make some very good points. I’m very interested in this matter and I myself do alot of research as well. Either way it was a well thoughtout and nice read so I figured I would leave you a comment.
http://www.lostpetsillinois.org Angela

Unfortunately it is true.This video may be a scam, but the practice does happen.

I volunteer for a feral cat rescue group in Illinois and they received a kitten this past summer that was one of three rescued from people who were cutting them up and using for fish bait. And these people were fishing in the Fox River no less, just sitting under a bridge along the shore.

No marlin involved , just Carp.

I was horrified when I heard about it, and I am still horrified.
luke

It actually is done… I’m not sure about for shark but its done alot when musky fishing
http://www.solwayrecycling.co.uk Solway Recycling

Do you own due dilegence with everything guys. Thebuck stops wiith yourself if you don’t take reasonable steps to make sure you dollar is going to go to a reputable source then it ain’t.
Deb from Oz

Unfortunately this video might be a scam, but this is actually happening.
I had never heard of using kittens as bait until standing looking in a pet shop window last week. In a shopping centre near Melbourne in Victoria Australia I overheard two men talking.
One said he used 8 kittens and caught two sharks.
I really thought I had misheard him, but after searching the internet I am shocked to find it is true.
How much lower can so called humans go than using animals as bait for fishing?
Words really do fail me, that grown men can resort to using a live kitten or any other animal just to fish. I hope I never come across these type of barbarians again.

Mike 0rtloff

I used to use live crickets, locusts & frogs when I was like 10. They do the same thing to birds & lizards (okay, chickens & alligators) in the American South all the time. With Santeria & all the other weird cults being allowed to torture animals to death for their religious rituals, it’s no big surprise that some other freak uses kittens, baby monkeys or even infants as bait. Just because someone who likes torturing small animals isn’t a serial killer YET doesn’t mean hey get a pass – anyone who commits that kind of inhumanity deserves close INSTITUTIONAL observation…