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Fox Hunting.
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Dermot | Report | 9 Jul 2015 16:15 |
Today's press reports accuse the PM - a strong supporter of country sports - of hatching a plan to bring back fox hunting with dogs. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 9 Jul 2015 16:32 |
I presume that means a loophole in the law that he has made...tuts |
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Guinevere | Report | 9 Jul 2015 16:37 |
*tries to look surprised* |
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Mayfield | Report | 9 Jul 2015 16:44 |
Well as they tell us in gives employment to many country folk. |
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magpie | Report | 9 Jul 2015 17:34 |
Foxes are a wretched nuisance and need to be kept under control, like all wild animals. How this can be achieved is a moot point. Poisoning is extremely cruel as is trapping, lamping, and anything else as these methods also runs the risk of ensnaring other species. Shooting is fine provided you are an excellent shot, lots of amateurs are not and the Fox dies an unpleasant prolonged death. Hunting is by far the best method as it teaches Foxes to fear human beings (no coming in the house or near the chicken coop) with the added bonus that half the time the Fox escapes. |
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Guinevere | Report | 9 Jul 2015 17:41 |
Hunting with dogs is cruel and inhumane, no matter how much fun the boys in red have doing it. It sickens me that people get pleasure from it. This is not how a civilised country deals with its vermin. |
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magpie | Report | 9 Jul 2015 17:56 |
So how would you control them? The above is a pretty grim choice particularly if you include gassing which is an option! |
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Guinevere | Report | 9 Jul 2015 18:01 |
I wouldn't. I'd leave them be. The fox population remains fairly stable no matter what people do. |
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magpie | Report | 9 Jul 2015 18:22 |
Foxes have no natural enemies, and death in the wild is mostly pretty grim for all wild animals . No trip to the vet for them, starvation, (worn out teeth) old age, mange, broken bones, to mention but a few, but hey ho, what we don't see we don't fret about! a bit like eating meat which is ok so long as we forget the factory farm and the slaughter house. Cheap eggs are fine, so long as we don't dwell on the lives and deaths of the chickens. Sorry, but we all in one way or another contribute to animal cruelty, frankly foxes get a much better deal than a lot of farmed animals which most of us don't give a seconds thought to. How hypocritical is that?! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 9 Jul 2015 18:28 |
A marksman and a gun are the best way of keeping the numbers down. It's the same with deer. Hunting in the true sense. |
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Mayfield | Report | 9 Jul 2015 18:44 |
I'm with you Maggie. :-) |
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Kense | Report | 9 Jul 2015 18:59 |
If foxes are such a menace then why are hunts always getting found out encouraging foxes to breed near hunt centres? |
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Guinevere | Report | 9 Jul 2015 19:00 |
But most of us don't take pleasure from inflicting animal cruelty, Magpie. Unlike the hunt. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 9 Jul 2015 19:04 |
Magpie is correct shooting foxes is next to impossible for the average shot. |
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magpie | Report | 9 Jul 2015 19:10 |
In an ideal world the trained marksman would be ideal, but tell that to a hill farmer and he won't be impressed, at least not round here they wouldn't be! A lot of farmers are not trained marksmen, they are also extremely busy folk without the time to go out looking for foxes that are extremely elusive and soon get to know to avoid the person with the gun. Paying a professional would be yet another expense and simply not viable. If this was rats and not a furry fox, no one would give a seconds thought about controlling them or the methods used. |
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Guinevere | Report | 9 Jul 2015 19:14 |
I would have a problem if someone thought killing rats was fun. It isn't civilised to get pleasure from inflicting pain. It's weird. |
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Dermot | Report | 9 Jul 2015 19:34 |
To many farmers, the red fox is craftiness & cunning personified. He is a stealer of little innocent lambs; a mass killer of fowl, a vagabond rogue & a thief. He also has a nasty habit of upending tidy rubbish bins in towns at the dead of night & shredding the plastic bags found inside, searching for any leftover food scraps. He accepts each gift with grasping enthusiasm. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 9 Jul 2015 21:34 |
no living creature should be killed for pleasure - people who are cruel to animals are also cruel to humans - well known fact |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 9 Jul 2015 21:47 |
I think fox hunting is evil |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 9 Jul 2015 21:49 |
I read a very interesting article years ago, written by a shepherd in Cumbria. |
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