[Trilby]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

All that said, I have a hard time condemning the fisherpeople on the "cute and fuzzy" aspect alone. Live bait is live bait, and if these people don't share our sensibilities about dogs, you can't hold them to the same standard.

I use live bait all the time -- minnows don't get an easier time of it, just because they lack puppy-ness. Neither do pigs used to bait lions.

I'd break the legs of anyone I caught abusing a dog, but we can't just throw a blanked condemnation over actions which are reprehensible to our genteel upbringing.

Now I really, really dislike you, noodle. Bag on Halloween and now this! I CAN CONDEM PEOPLE WHO USE CATS AND DOGS AS SHARK BAIT! I CAN! I WILL! you're a bad, bad, naughty boy and some day you'll understand why this isn't a matter of 'genteel' upbringing. It's totally brutal and I'm hoping snopes says it's false.

noodle-do your attitudes about Halloween and the dog-as-bait thing have to do with your being Christian? I'll bet Jesus wouldn't use dogs as bait and I'll bet he would trick or treat. Don't know what kind of costume he'd like, though... how 'bout ??