Animal cruelty?

Question

Why is it that when you beat a dog, you've committed animal cruelty but when you catch a fish on a hook (for fun), and let it go, its legal? And considered a sport.........

Don't get me wrong. I think killing animals for food is fine. Its survival of the fittest. But killing for sport is stupid. And fishing isn't even killing. Its torture for sport!

Answer 1

There is no difference, but we naturally tend to empathize more with animals that display emotions, like dogs, who can cry and look at use with pain in their eyes. Fish cant cry...

Answer 2

First of all, beating your dog and catching a fish are not the same. A sport fish's mouth is designed with cartledge with very no nerve endings in them. Fishing has been around as a food source 5000 years before Jeasus.

Shooting an animal and calling it hunting is considered a sport, yet some do not shoot the animal correctly and have to slit its throat or wring it's neck.

As a sportsman, there are humane and inhumane ways to take game. Also, is it humane to raise cows, goats, sheep or chicken and call it food for people? Is bull riding or bull fighting any different? Yet they are entertainment and not animal cruelty. How about a circus. Taking an animal out of the wild and teaching it stupid tricks. Or a snake, spider or bird from its natural environment and putting it in a small cage so you can say you have a pet boa? In short there are no differences in any of these yet some are permissable and some are not.

Oh yes and on a short note, there are many countries that eat dogs and cats.

Answer 3

You say that like you beat your dog.... Beating a dog that has no choice in where it lives and no way to get away is the act of a gutless coward with a pretty low double digit IQ!

If you are not smart enough to teach an animal how to act without hurting it, then you shouldn't be allowed to have pets, let alone children. The next step for an animal abuser is to abuse children and women.

Even hardened criminals in prison look down on child abuse.

If a fish was contained by you in a large tank or pond and repeatedly hooked and released it would be cruelty also.

Answer 4

VERY good question!!! Any living creature should never be caught and released... all animals deserve to be in a natual habitat and free from any cruelty. Unless you are going to eat the fish, and then every care should be given to make sure they go through the least amount of suffering possible and use every last piece of that fish for something.

Answer 5

Fishing became a sport after people figured out how to catch them for food. IMO, fishing is OK if you do it to feed yourself/others. For sport, it's probably not the best thing, but 98% of sport fisherman are extremely careful with their fish and most don't even take the fish from the water.

Some of us go the next step by providing other people with food. It is easy to feel bad for the fish, but by doing this I put food on thousands of people's plates as well as my own.
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Answer 6

you know what. i hate that its like that. you hit a cat or dog and you get fined or sometimes go to jail. you put a sharp object into the water to have a fish bite it all so you can see how big of a fish you caught and you get congradulated. wtf is up with that?

Answer 7

I think hurting any animal is a sick thing to do. i dont know how people can kill for sport its sick and why do people have pets if they beat them? some people are really f*u*c*k*e*d up

Answer 8

Why is it ok to eat a cow but not a horse? Who knows why we make the laws that we do.

Answer 9

That is a good question...and one of the reasons I wont eat fish...or any other animal for that matter!

Answer 10

I think it is logical that beating a dog is cruelty and catching fish is a sport. I can't see why on earth you would question that!