Fox-Hunting

[EternalOptimist]

I never have been, or would want to go to, a hunt.
But I like the idea that the Tories will repeal/amend the law to allow the hunts to get back out there doing their stuff

I really hate the class warriors like Brown and Harman et al.

[wobbegong]

I never have been, or would want to go to, a hunt.
But I like the idea that the Tories will repeal/amend the law to allow the hunts to get back out there doing their stuff

I really hate the class warriors like Brown and Harman et al.

I don't disagree with controlling the fox population if it can be proven that there is a credible need, what I do disagree with is the inhumane way fox hunts go about it. Making sport out of taking the life of any living thing is fundamentally abhorrent to me. If they need to culled, call in the marksmen.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I don't disagree with controlling the fox population if it can be proven that there is a credible need, what I do disagree with is the inhumane way fox hunts go about it. Making sport out of taking the life of any living thing is fundamentally abhorrent to me. If they need to culled, call in the marksmen.

If you see the result of foxes you'd change your mind. Horrid vermin deserve all they get. They are almost as bad as Labour supporters.

[minestrone]

I don't disagree with controlling the fox population if it can be proven that there is a credible need, what I do disagree with is the inhumane way fox hunts go about it. Making sport out of taking the life of any living thing is fundamentally abhorrent to me. If they need to culled, call in the marksmen.

Shooting them can often be worse for them. You can seriously wound them and they might not die for days, they are also nocturnal and shooting at night is not ideal.

When you see what a fox will do if it gets in a hen house you will not have any qualms about setting the dogs on them. Too many people think they are just mini lassie dogs, they are brutal little animals that will kill for the fun of it.

[DimPrawn]

I'm not sure I like the idea of "marksmen" out shooting at night.

The hunt is akin to a predator weeding out the weaker ones. No different from if Wolves or Bears were hunting the foxes.

[thunderlizard]

minestrone is right. Dogs do a much quicker job.

[EternalOptimist]

minestrone is right. Dogs do a much quicker job.

I think the OP meant that the legislation was nothing to do with animal welfare, but a petty, mean-spirited, vindictive, spiteful attack on perceived class enemies

[Platypus]

The hunt is akin to a predator weeding out the weaker ones.

So by natural selection, hunting leaves only the supervulpines which will wreak even more chicken havoc.

[thunderlizard]

I think so too. And it's a rubbish bit of class warfare because most of the people who went on hunts were as far away from upper class as you could imagine.
Actually, it worked out more like rural v urban warfare, like in the good old Whig v Tory days.

[norrahe]

Shooting them can often be worse for them. You can seriously wound them and they might not die for days, they are also nocturnal and shooting at night is not ideal.

When you see what a fox will do if it gets in a hen house you will not have any qualms about setting the dogs on them. Too many people think they are just mini lassie dogs, they are brutal little animals that will kill for the fun of it.

I used to go out shooting them as a kid, I hate the things, they are northing but flea ridden vermin.

If you see what a fox can do to a sheep when it's giving birth ( my family had a sheep farm), and what it does to the newborn, it's not nice.

What bugs me more is the townies who leave out food for them in suburban areas as they think they are sooo cute and then wonder why the next doors neighbours rubbish is all over their front lawn the next morning.

Fox hunting, is all about innate snobbery, it's a horrible thing for an animal to go through that. So is hare coursing and badger baiting.

But what the ban boils down to is labours pretence to be all about the working classes when all they have been doing is fleecing small businesses and lining the pockets of the big corporations