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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33360817

I particularly like the quote from the chairman who "tweaked his groin" trying to get away from the marauding animal

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By *ildt123Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"A man who tried to outpace the creature on his bicycle was chased into a field and fell off, losing his glasses in the process"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No time for hunting, it`s a sign of a violent mind and cowardice, hunting for necessity is fine, but not this.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"None of us could get out. When we tried to use a side door, the fox heard and came hating round there"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!"

Quite right. Understand the need (hey, I had chickens), but chasing the beggars until they are shaking in fear is another matter. I really have no idea why that pursuit should bring great joy to people.

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"He had to fend the fox off with his bicycle"

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!"

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

there must have been a reason the fox did this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you want to kill pests, do it humanely and quickly not spend 20 mins letting a pack of dogs skin it alive and rip it apart while it screams in agony.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"The local pest controller was called, but when he tried to approach the animal it went for him and chased him back to his car"

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I am against cruelty and torture of animals or humans - I just see this talk of reintroducing something so barbaric to be dreadful. Hints at tory priorities, and which people they're really behind.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Exaggerated stories, like when whalers used to speak of Whales attacking ships to justify their profession and make themselves seem brave, we all know Whales are peaceful animals now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am against cruelty and torture of animals or humans - I just see this talk of reintroducing something so barbaric to be dreadful. Hints at tory priorities, and which people they're really behind. "

100%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's actually "Hunting with dogs" not a fox hunting ban. Most of the people collared have been poacher types using lurchers not the horse riding mindless Muppet's in red.

I was brought up very near to a hunt and found dead hounds that had been lamed then shot on a regular basis. These people are not animal lovers or respect nature they are at worst sadistic bloodthirsty maniacs and best mindless socialite tossers.

Hunting to control and protect or even put meat on the table is fine by me if it's humane and has a reason.

Killing something for sport however is sadistic,warped and less than a human being should be.

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather


"Exaggerated stories, like when whalers used to speak of Whales attacking ships to justify their profession and make themselves seem brave, we all know Whales are peaceful animals now."

In fairness whales have capsised ships, just not on purpose...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's actually "Hunting with dogs" not a fox hunting ban. Most of the people collared have been poacher types using lurchers not the horse riding mindless Muppet's in red.

I was brought up very near to a hunt and found dead hounds that had been lamed then shot on a regular basis. These people are not animal lovers or respect nature they are at worst sadistic bloodthirsty maniacs and best mindless socialite tossers.

Hunting to control and protect or even put meat on the table is fine by me if it's humane and has a reason.

Killing something for sport however is sadistic,warped and less than a human being should be. "

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"Club members ended up barricaded inside the building, watching the fox on the CCTV system as it stalked outside"

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By *anejohnkent6263Couple
over a year ago

canterbury

mr and mrs fox killed 26 of my chickens and did not eat one just killed.....I GOT MY GUN AND SHOT MR AND MRS FOX ...JOB DONE...

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"The fox started circling my car as soon as I arrived"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would have been funnier if they'd photoshopped red 'evil' eyes onto the fox.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"mr and mrs fox killed 26 of my chickens and did not eat one just killed.....I GOT MY GUN AND SHOT MR AND MRS FOX ...JOB DONE..."

Quite right. You did not chase them round a field with a pack of dogs salivating and tearing at their flesh.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!"

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found. "

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

if you townies saw what a fox does in a hen run you might think different

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"if you townies saw what a fox does in a hen run you might think different "

Have done. And nope. Still civilised here.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible"

'nuff said

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Studying an animals behaviour is helpful, there is a bloke on our allotments who hasn`t lost a single chicken, because he took the necessary precautions, if you kill a fox, another is waiting to move into it`s territory, so it never ends, and they don`t just kill all the chickens, they come back for the rest to bury them for when times are hard, but they usually get disturbed and so flee the scene, leaving people to think they killed them for nothing. Protect livestock better, there are ways of doing it without having to kill, but sadly people like to kill animals and will look for excuses.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"He tried to move it on by stamping his feet, shouting and waving his arms but when it refused to move he was forced to beat a retreat "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Studying an animals behaviour is helpful, there is a bloke on our allotments who hasn`t lost a single chicken, because he took the necessary precautions, if you kill a fox, another is waiting to move into it`s territory, so it never ends, and they don`t just kill all the chickens, they come back for the rest to bury them for when times are hard, but they usually get disturbed and so flee the scene, leaving people to think they killed them for nothing. Protect livestock better, there are ways of doing it without having to kill, but sadly people like to kill animals and will look for excuses."

And as has already been seen, they seem to think that because they live in the country they know better than us 'townies'. Same old tired excuses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest."

Typical towny response. Do you know that the fox is killed very quickly by the pack. Shooting a fox is not guaranteed to kill it and it may run off injured to die slowly.

Calling the people who go on hunts, Hooray Henrys also shows your ignorance. I have friends who ride on hunts and they're just normal people. The horses get a good exercise, the dogs too.

Oh and I hope you don't drive because more foxes get killed by cars then any hunt could ever do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Studying an animals behaviour is helpful, there is a bloke on our allotments who hasn`t lost a single chicken, because he took the necessary precautions, if you kill a fox, another is waiting to move into it`s territory, so it never ends, and they don`t just kill all the chickens, they come back for the rest to bury them for when times are hard, but they usually get disturbed and so flee the scene, leaving people to think they killed them for nothing. Protect livestock better, there are ways of doing it without having to kill, but sadly people like to kill animals and will look for excuses.

And as has already been seen, they seem to think that because they live in the country they know better than us 'townies'. Same old tired excuses."

I know mate, they are just spiteful people.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

"The pest controller suggested the fox may have been an urban animal, which somehow found itself in the middle of the countryside"

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"Studying an animals behaviour is helpful, there is a bloke on our allotments who hasn`t lost a single chicken, because he took the necessary precautions, if you kill a fox, another is waiting to move into it`s territory, so it never ends, and they don`t just kill all the chickens, they come back for the rest to bury them for when times are hard, but they usually get disturbed and so flee the scene, leaving people to think they killed them for nothing. Protect livestock better, there are ways of doing it without having to kill, but sadly people like to kill animals and will look for excuses.

And as has already been seen, they seem to think that because they live in the country they know better than us 'townies'. Same old tired excuses."
exactly and all those who kill animals for fun must have psychotic tendencies and i hope they all rot in hell and will pray that karma knows where these scum reside the useless tossers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Studying an animals behaviour is helpful, there is a bloke on our allotments who hasn`t lost a single chicken, because he took the necessary precautions, if you kill a fox, another is waiting to move into it`s territory, so it never ends, and they don`t just kill all the chickens, they come back for the rest to bury them for when times are hard, but they usually get disturbed and so flee the scene, leaving people to think they killed them for nothing. Protect livestock better, there are ways of doing it without having to kill, but sadly people like to kill animals and will look for excuses.

And as has already been seen, they seem to think that because they live in the country they know better than us 'townies'. Same old tired excuses.exactly and all those who kill animals for fun must have psychotic tendencies and i hope they all rot in hell and will pray that karma knows where these scum reside the useless tossers "

I wonder how far these people who kill animals for fun would go if they were allowed, it`s the seed in them to kill that concerns me as much as what they are killing,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox "

I enjoyed reading that mate, nice one

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By *ildt123Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Interestingly if you do a risk assessment of people in relation to their propensity for violence to others one of the significant historical factors that increase risk is killing and torturing animals, maybe the authorities should keep an eye on the hunting types

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fox hunting is barbaric. End of. We know they are pests and have to be culled but not by being chased by a pack of dogs. Then being ripped to shreds. Would you do that to human being? No you wouldn't so why am animal.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

Ok, so I have no more humour lines to quote you from what I thought to be an amusing little ditty for a Friday afternoon.

(Really glad I didn't go with the story of the man who fell off the roof of his house trying to take down is aerial so as to prove he didn't watch live TV )

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"Interestingly if you do a risk assessment of people in relation to their propensity for violence to others one of the significant historical factors that increase risk is killing and torturing animals, maybe the authorities should keep an eye on the hunting types "
i always view people like this if they are animal lovers most of the time they are good people but the violent poor excuses for humans that like to kill torment animals for their own sadistic pleasure tend to be people you don't want to know in my experience

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox "

Strange. My chickens were my pets. I did not take them on to run a slaughter house. Just for the pleasure of their interaction. Call me bad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox

Strange. My chickens were my pets. I did not take them on to run a slaughter house. Just for the pleasure of their interaction. Call me bad."

so where did all the feathers in your kitchen come from ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sorry but if they ban fox hunting they should ban dog & horse races as animals get hurt unnecessarily for sport in these too..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's actually "Hunting with dogs" not a fox hunting ban. Most of the people collared have been poacher types using lurchers not the horse riding mindless Muppet's in red.

I was brought up very near to a hunt and found dead hounds that had been lamed then shot on a regular basis. These people are not animal lovers or respect nature they are at worst sadistic bloodthirsty maniacs and best mindless socialite tossers.

Hunting to control and protect or even put meat on the table is fine by me if it's humane and has a reason.

Killing something for sport however is sadistic,warped and less than a human being should be. "

Spot on

It's not just the fox which suffers needlessly, but the dogs too.

We have a dachshund and the thought of him being used just to kill another animal makes my skin crawl - like you say there are hounds which are injured in the process

Hunting rabbits to eat them I have no issue with.

Hunting rabbits, foxes, squire etc as a means of pest control I have no issue with.

Hunting for sport and enjoyment I have an issue with

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sorry but if they ban fox hunting they should ban dog & horse races as animals get hurt unnecessarily for sport in these too.. "

Personally I think any 'sport' that uses animals for our amusement should be banned and that includes fishing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The total number of animals killed in British slaughterhouses in 2013 was over a billion.

This included 9.8 million pigs, nearly 15 million sheep, 18 million turkeys, 14 million ducks, over 945 million chickens and 2.6 million cattle. Add to that 4.5 billion fish and 2.6 billion shellfish you have a total of over 8 billion animals killed in the UK each year.

This equates to around 22 million animals slaughtered every day; 919,000 an hour; 15,000 per minute and 255 every second.

and we grudge a fox a couple of chickens now and then ? if i was a fox id be banging on the farmers door saying geez a chicken ya gready bastard and ill be having a sheep aswell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sorry but if they ban fox hunting they should ban dog & horse races as animals get hurt unnecessarily for sport in these too..

Personally I think any 'sport' that uses animals for our amusement should be banned and that includes fishing "

Definitely.. i forgot about fishing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The total number of animals killed in British slaughterhouses in 2013 was over a billion.

This included 9.8 million pigs, nearly 15 million sheep, 18 million turkeys, 14 million ducks, over 945 million chickens and 2.6 million cattle. Add to that 4.5 billion fish and 2.6 billion shellfish you have a total of over 8 billion animals killed in the UK each year.

This equates to around 22 million animals slaughtered every day; 919,000 an hour; 15,000 per minute and 255 every second.

and we grudge a fox a couple of chickens now and then ? if i was a fox id be banging on the farmers door saying geez a chicken ya gready bastard and ill be having a sheep aswell "

That's just humans all over for you

arrogant we are

will kill for food and cloths, hunt wild animals to the brink of extinction for sale on the black market, chop down their homes, use them for entertainment, experiment on them but if one fox kills a chicken they are vermin and need to be killed

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

Was my dream as a boy to be the Master off the Hunt on Boxing day in our Village seeing the hounds and Horses set off will always stick in my mind a glass of port or sherry before the chase TALLY O AFTER THE BASTARD

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"The total number of animals killed in British slaughterhouses in 2013 was over a billion.

This included 9.8 million pigs, nearly 15 million sheep, 18 million turkeys, 14 million ducks, over 945 million chickens and 2.6 million cattle. Add to that 4.5 billion fish and 2.6 billion shellfish you have a total of over 8 billion animals killed in the UK each year.

This equates to around 22 million animals slaughtered every day; 919,000 an hour; 15,000 per minute and 255 every second.

and we grudge a fox a couple of chickens now and then ? if i was a fox id be banging on the farmers door saying geez a chicken ya gready bastard and ill be having a sheep aswell

That's just humans all over for you

arrogant we are

will kill for food and cloths, hunt wild animals to the brink of extinction for sale on the black market, chop down their homes, use them for entertainment, experiment on them but if one fox kills a chicken they are vermin and need to be killed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The total number of animals killed in British slaughterhouses in 2013 was over a billion.

This included 9.8 million pigs, nearly 15 million sheep, 18 million turkeys, 14 million ducks, over 945 million chickens and 2.6 million cattle. Add to that 4.5 billion fish and 2.6 billion shellfish you have a total of over 8 billion animals killed in the UK each year.

This equates to around 22 million animals slaughtered every day; 919,000 an hour; 15,000 per minute and 255 every second.

and we grudge a fox a couple of chickens now and then ? if i was a fox id be banging on the farmers door saying geez a chicken ya gready bastard and ill be having a sheep aswell

That's just humans all over for you

arrogant we are

will kill for food and cloths, hunt wild animals to the brink of extinction for sale on the black market, chop down their homes, use them for entertainment, experiment on them but if one fox kills a chicken they are vermin and need to be killed

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another 4 thumbs from me

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"Was my dream as a boy to be the Master off the Hunt on Boxing day in our Village seeing the hounds and Horses set off will always stick in my mind a glass of port or sherry before the chase TALLY O AFTER THE BASTARD "
well a shame you didn't have more ambitious and more humane dreams then

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

Gosh, this brings back memories of student days as a hunt saboteur. We used to spend most of our weekends doing what we could to make sure foxes were not caught. Guess we will be at it again, although not sure how fit I am. Some very frightening moments when we were surrounded by huntsman and terrier men, the police nowhere in sight and dunked under water to scare us away, a generally very violent and marauding population who could not give a damn about us peasants ... would be a nightmare for it to come back, but I will be out there again. Absolutely criminal that such a disgustingly inhumane thing could happen again ... but hardly surprising in our society.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found. "

the solution is not treating it as a sport, the pomposity and spectacle of the event is no less as disgusting as safari hunting in my opinion.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

Never for get my first hunt

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In relation to hunting with hounds act passed before the big house did not bad fox hunting but hunting or flushing quarry with more than two hounds/dogs ,as the owner of four dogs yes gun dogs if I were to take all in the field hunting at same time I would be breaking the law so only hunt with two and other two do retrieving so no foxes here but other quarry this is the only way I can stay with in the law or take another person with me 4 divided by 2 is two dogs each lol nothing anyone can do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case. "

am surprised females are against the reintroduction of bears any one i know has got a room with shelfs full of them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case. "

are you promoting the bear back!?

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest.

Typical towny response. Do you know that the fox is killed very quickly by the pack. Shooting a fox is not guaranteed to kill it and it may run off injured to die slowly.

Calling the people who go on hunts, Hooray Henrys also shows your ignorance. I have friends who ride on hunts and they're just normal people. The horses get a good exercise, the dogs too.

Oh and I hope you don't drive because more foxes get killed by cars then any hunt could ever do. "

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case.

am surprised females are against the reintroduction of bears any one i know has got a room with shelfs full of them "

I'm bang along side re-wilding. It would make rambling much more exciting.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

what about Banning BBQ,S

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest.

Typical towny response. Do you know that the fox is killed very quickly by the pack. Shooting a fox is not guaranteed to kill it and it may run off injured to die slowly.

Calling the people who go on hunts, Hooray Henrys also shows your ignorance. I have friends who ride on hunts and they're just normal people. The horses get a good exercise, the dogs too.

Oh and I hope you don't drive because more foxes get killed by cars then any hunt could ever do.

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty. "

Also the notion that the dogs are trained to kill the fix humanely is a fallacy. More often than not the fox is disemboweled. Even if the death were quick the chase through miles and miles of countryside is hardly humane.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

theirs a simple answer teach your hounds to chase cars then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case.

am surprised females are against the reintroduction of bears any one i know has got a room with shelfs full of them

I'm bang along side re-wilding. It would make rambling much more exciting. "

Sabre tooth Tigers used to roam these shores. Make a trip down the park interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty. "

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case.

am surprised females are against the reintroduction of bears any one i know has got a room with shelfs full of them

I'm bang along side re-wilding. It would make rambling much more exciting.

Sabre tooth Tigers used to roam these shores. Make a trip down the park interesting. "

That would be awesome! And mammoth!!

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys


"if you townies saw what a fox does in a hen run you might think different "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"if you townies saw what a fox does in a hen run you might think different "

I'm guessing the fox lowers the hen population much more efficiently than a hunting party ever could.

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

"
yeah keep telling yourself that what a load of crap that is let me go and find a needle so i can sew my side up where it has split from laughing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How naive can you all get!

Where to start... ok worked within hunting so I do know a little about it.

If you think the ban stopped the practice of hunting foxes with dogs, you would be wrong. They just do it outside the law. Are you seriously telling me that a pack of dogs following a fake trail that come across a real fox scent will not act on it?

And it is not a fair fight. The myth that if the fox is healthy it will get away! Maybe if the terrrier men didn't block up their earths the day before, or dig them out with terriers if they do go to ground.

Maybe if the practice of 'bagging' ie capturing a live animal and releasing in alien territory with a hunt close by wasn't regularly implemented?

No still, even then.

Another arguement that it is only the old/infirm/ injured(and by this I mean shot previously) that get caught. JUST. NOT.TRUE.

And yes, I have seen the results of foxes on chicken coops and lambing etc but it still doesn't justify it.

Nothing does.

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By *amparaWoman
over a year ago

biggleswade


"

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

yeah keep telling yourself that what a load of crap that is let me go and find a needle so i can sew my side up where it has split from laughing"
and i'm being very presumptuous by saying those who kill just for pleasure are fly blown filth of humanity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"if you townies saw what a fox does in a hen run you might think different "

trying to think....

how about thinking differently on a perceived proud british pastime, that isnt that far away from bull fighting..where an animal can be killed or culled without it being made some sort of spectacle...

its amazing that people slag off other countries less compassionate animal welfare(wild or captive)..terming them as barbaric...yet people still defend fox hunting in the style that its done as a great british tradition.

its a simple job, go kill the fox..effectively.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

yeah keep telling yourself that what a load of crap that is let me go and find a needle so i can sew my side up where it has split from laughing and i'm being very presumptuous by saying those who kill just for pleasure are fly blown filth of humanity "

Agree with you 100%, we don't need this kind of scum among our race.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


""None of us could get out. When we tried to use a side door, the fox heard and came hating round there"

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Wily old fox

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

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Oh go on then - just one more .....

"Club chairman Bruce Staines, who was chased around the car park, said he had "never seen anything like it" "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am Country through and through. We have four horses at the last count (she has a tendency to buy them without telling) I think we are pretty normal.

Can't stand suffering of any animal hate fox hunting. It's simply more efficient to shoot them with a rifle when they are out overnight that cannot be up for debate. People make a good living out of humane animal control.

Hunting is simply pageantry that can be recreated without killing.

Just don't ask me to pull the trigger. We had a terrible problem with magpies round here stripping young birds nests of eggs and hatchlings. I went out to shoot them after securing permission and couldn't do it.

My guns are for burglars now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am Country through and through. We have four horses at the last count (she has a tendency to buy them without telling) I think we are pretty normal.

Can't stand suffering of any animal hate fox hunting. It's simply more efficient to shoot them with a rifle when they are out overnight that cannot be up for debate. People make a good living out of humane animal control.

Hunting is simply pageantry that can be recreated without killing.

Just don't ask me to pull the trigger. We had a terrible problem with magpies round here stripping young birds nests of eggs and hatchlings. I went out to shoot them after securing permission and couldn't do it.

My guns are for burglars now. "

I wasnt there to burgle...just some tompeepery!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am Country through and through. We have four horses at the last count (she has a tendency to buy them without telling) I think we are pretty normal.

Can't stand suffering of any animal hate fox hunting. It's simply more efficient to shoot them with a rifle when they are out overnight that cannot be up for debate. People make a good living out of humane animal control.

Hunting is simply pageantry that can be recreated without killing.

Just don't ask me to pull the trigger. We had a terrible problem with magpies round here stripping young birds nests of eggs and hatchlings. I went out to shoot them after securing permission and couldn't do it.

My guns are for burglars now.

I wasnt there to burgle...just some tompeepery!"

Next time buzz the gate.

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth

While I am no fan of many of those that hunt and I think they are their own worse enemy by their attitude I have no problem with hunting in principle. As a farmer I see the damage that foxes can do, not only to chickens but also lambs and even new born calves. Hunts very rarely catch a fit and healthy fox, I have seen with my own eyes a fox run into my yard in front of a pack of hounds, was very calm ambling along and just climbed up a stack of straw and as the hounds kept their noses on the ground I watched as he looked down on them totally unconcerned. If a fox goes to ground then he should be left not dug out. The ones they catch are mainly old,infirm or injured, they do die very quickly and compared to dying of starvation or freezing to death then I know which I would choose. Many of those who are anti though well intentioned are not well informed of the reality of life and death in nature

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

Unless you hunt for food, and you just do it for fun then you are a complete and utter cunt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have 2 horses. Reckon I'm pretty normal.....

Can't stand any form of animal cruelty. If foxes need controlling why not do so with a cull?

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth

better get rid of all the cats too then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Gosh, this brings back memories of student days as a hunt saboteur. We used to spend most of our weekends doing what we could to make sure foxes were not caught. Guess we will be at it again, although not sure how fit I am. Some very frightening moments when we were surrounded by huntsman and terrier men, the police nowhere in sight and dunked under water to scare us away, a generally very violent and marauding population who could not give a damn about us peasants ... would be a nightmare for it to come back, but I will be out there again. Absolutely criminal that such a disgustingly inhumane thing could happen again ... but hardly surprising in our society. "

Surely not.The jolly huntsmen and women,who are from all walks of society remember-not just posh twats,would never be so inhumane as to try and scare you off with violence.I mean it's not in them,surely...

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys


"Was my dream as a boy to be the Master off the Hunt on Boxing day in our Village seeing the hounds and Horses set off will always stick in my mind a glass of port or sherry before the chase TALLY O AFTER THE BASTARD "
Never forget my first Hunt

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Short of giving badgers high-powered rifles and night-vis goggles, I can't think of a less cost-effective way of keep a problem of 'pest's down

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"better get rid of all the cats too then"

That sounds like a plan.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

It is an utterly bizarre way to hunt. Dressing in red and black, blowing horns, and riding along with packs of yelping and baying hounds is pretty much opposite from the skilful stealth needed for hunting any other animal.

Poor foxes.

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

I did notice that, it is always strange that those who dont have a convincing argument always shout or get personal, as someone once said dont shout improve your argument

Why am I not surprised. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised. "

because you grew up among those people in your remedial classes and seen it all before ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised. "

People naturally have some degree of violent tendencies, it's simply that the 'anti-hunt lot' would rather take them out against over-privileged upper class sadists rather than defenceless animals.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think much of the bravado surrounding fox hunting is that of outwitting the cunning fox...those who want to prove their mastery over the animal kingdom need show show off how good they are at it and to the animal in question.

cunning fox,wild creature,pest..whatever its called..it has no bravado,malice or sportsfoxship..its not trying to deliberately outfox us..it just does what it does.

As humans, we have the choice, to not cause distress(we can at least try),ease suffering etc etc...

Quite amusing to see the supposedly enlightened gentry reducing themselves to barbarism that they claim they are far removed from...

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

People naturally have some degree of violent tendencies, it's simply that the 'anti-hunt lot' would rather take them out against over-privileged upper class sadists rather than defenceless animals."

And that is better ?

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"It is an utterly bizarre way to hunt. Dressing in red and black, blowing horns, and riding along with packs of yelping and baying hounds is pretty much opposite from the skilful stealth needed for hunting any other animal.

Poor foxes. "

It's also how they meet those with whom they'll go on to in-breed.

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By *helbeeCouple
over a year ago

Nuneaton

Im against fox hunting its cruel an barbaric an outdated in today's humane society. Can't stand animal cruelty. An the hunters on horse back that are the vermin. Its blood thirsty an sick.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

People naturally have some degree of violent tendencies, it's simply that the 'anti-hunt lot' would rather take them out against over-privileged upper class sadists rather than defenceless animals.

And that is better ?"

Yep.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised. "

or they just think uppity cunts need a slap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

I did notice that, it is always strange that those who dont have a convincing argument always shout or get personal, as someone once said dont shout improve your argument

Why am I not surprised. "

It took me a minute to realise that you had posted your reply inside the quotes.

Firstly my post doesn't infer that all the anti-hunt people advocate violence.

And pointing out that people are advocating it and that they may have a low IQ is certainly not as personal as calling people scum or that they should be wiped from this society. I believe that term is ethnic cleansing. How much more personal can you get?

The pro-hunt group have put their argument across quite clearly without getting threatening.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

or they just think uppity cunts need a slap"

This is exactly my point. I despair, I really do.

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By *ildt123Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield


"How naive can you all get!

Where to start... ok worked within hunting so I do know a little about it.

If you think the ban stopped the practice of hunting foxes with dogs, you would be wrong. They just do it outside the law. Are you seriously telling me that a pack of dogs following a fake trail that come across a real fox scent will not act on it?

And it is not a fair fight. The myth that if the fox is healthy it will get away! Maybe if the terrrier men didn't block up their earths the day before, or dig them out with terriers if they do go to ground.

Maybe if the practice of 'bagging' ie capturing a live animal and releasing in alien territory with a hunt close by wasn't regularly implemented?

No still, even then.

Another arguement that it is only the old/infirm/ injured(and by this I mean shot previously) that get caught. JUST. NOT.TRUE.

And yes, I have seen the results of foxes on chicken coops and lambing etc but it still doesn't justify it.

Nothing does."

I agree totally

No need for this barbaric practise the law hasn't stopped but it has reduced it dramatically

As for those saying ban all sports involving animals because animals get hurt, ban schools as kids get hurt there too! What rubbish! Properly regulated sports with animals have some of the most pampered loved and cared for animals on the planet, yes whenever money gets involved people need to be monitored and regulated but if you ban horse riding what do you think will happen to all the horses in the country? Kept as pets not to be ridden? Nope they will be shot same with the dogs, you know hard it is to regime grey hounds? Extremely! Ban animals in sport and leisure? Ban pets too then that's not natural either! How can you compare horse riding or racing with hunting?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

People naturally have some degree of violent tendencies, it's simply that the 'anti-hunt lot' would rather take them out against over-privileged upper class sadists rather than defenceless animals.

And that is better ?"

Probably a bit better to give them someone who can talk back..than something thats cowering in fear of its life.

I'd say calling people cunts or saying they deserve a slap, still makes me a cut above someone who can cause distress and suffering to an animal...I suppose its always better to have something that cant really fight back or argue,if thats what being humans all about eh?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I despair, I really do. "

Hopefully that grants you some degree of empathy toward the fox then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

or they just think uppity cunts need a slap

This is exactly my point. I despair, I really do. "

You have just insulted peoples IQ's for swearing/offensiveness or using bad grammar...get off your high horse and feed yer nuts to a fox

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys


"Was my dream as a boy to be the Master off the Hunt on Boxing day in our Village seeing the hounds and Horses set off will always stick in my mind a glass of port or sherry before the chase TALLY O AFTER THE BASTARD Never forget my first Hunt"
Was Just 18 the foxes brush across my face with the blood still got the Photos from the Local Paper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

I did notice that, it is always strange that those who dont have a convincing argument always shout or get personal, as someone once said dont shout improve your argument

Why am I not surprised.

It took me a minute to realise that you had posted your reply inside the quotes.

Firstly my post doesn't infer that all the anti-hunt people advocate violence.

And pointing out that people are advocating it and that they may have a low IQ is certainly not as personal as calling people scum or that they should be wiped from this society. I believe that term is ethnic cleansing. How much more personal can you get?

The pro-hunt group have put their argument across quite clearly without getting threatening.

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Neither did I. Just saying.

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

I did notice that, it is always strange that those who dont have a convincing argument always shout or get personal, as someone once said dont shout improve your argument

Why am I not surprised.

It took me a minute to realise that you had posted your reply inside the quotes.

Firstly my post doesn't infer that all the anti-hunt people advocate violence.

And pointing out that people are advocating it and that they may have a low IQ is certainly not as personal as calling people scum or that they should be wiped from this society. I believe that term is ethnic cleansing. How much more personal can you get?

The pro-hunt group have put their argument across quite clearly without getting threatening.

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Didnt realise I had put the reply inside your post and then couldnt edit it out As I said I am not a hunter and some that are dont do their cause any favours but I unlike many of the antis do know from first hand experience what I am talking about, I totally respect those that don't want to see any living creature die but nature is cruel. The amount of animal cruelty caused to pets by "animal lovers" far outweighs any caused by hunting and shooting or fishing

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By *MaleMan
over a year ago

Anyone that's having problems with a fox doesn't need a pack of hounds to sort the problem out.

Anyone that grew up in the countryside knows the score. There's hunting and then there's blood sports, two very different things. To me the blood sports brigade spin much crap to justify their bloodlust be it fox hunting or some of their other horrific pastimes in darkness.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

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fox hunting is a blood sport it's no different to dog fighting its just rich people fox hunt so seen as acceptable in my eyes it's no they are no better than people who fight dogs

anybody that partakes in any blood sport is no animal lover and no matter how you try and justify blood sports I will never believe that anybody to takes part in such an act is an animal lover

if you believe they are then you clearly have a different ideal on what an animal lover is than I do

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I grew up in a very pro hunting family our land was often used by the hunt and we used to follow the Boxing Day hunt, however as an adult do I believe in what it stands for? I can't say I really do any more it was rich in heritage where I grew up but I was a kid so can't say I had a choice and as a teenager I went to hunt balls but I guess your opioions on subject can change when you thing about the true meaning of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

"

So it's ok to be violent against animals but if you do it against people it means you have a low IQ?

I hate animal cruelty I think people who fox hunt are arrogant toffs who think because they have money its ok to hunt foxes for the thrill of the chase

does that make me unintelligent?

I happy to be so if it does

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By *indys loverCouple
over a year ago

Stratford on avon

Firstly im not a hunting type but i am a lad of the countryside ,,,, what i can tell you though is just because you put a gun to a fox does not mean a quick and painless death ,,,,,if you dont believe me then watch the first 5 mins of saving private ryan ,,,, you then may think other wise . So a fox gets chased around the countryside ,,,,, it either escapes whereupon the next day it may be a bit stiff and ache a bit or else its caught and very quickly dispatched ,,,, not nice maybe but it is quick ,,, very quick

The bit about horray henries tarting around the countryside well yes that pisses me off a bit to but im afraid im of the opinion of foxxy numbers need controling but until there is a better way im prepaed to put up with them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wish the hunt would come past our house, can't let the bleedin dog out in the garden because of the number of foxes living at the back

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Plus foxes are a pretty smart animal ive seen a few that out smarted people on horses and a pack of hounds...

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys


"Was my dream as a boy to be the Master off the Hunt on Boxing day in our Village seeing the hounds and Horses set off will always stick in my mind a glass of port or sherry before the chase TALLY O AFTER THE BASTARD Never forget my first Hunt Was Just 18 the foxes brush across my face with the blood still got the Photos from the Local Paper"

Taste the blood as it ran on to my lips

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow


"Plus foxes are a pretty smart animal ive seen a few that out smarted people on horses and a pack of hounds... "

That's probably more a reflection on the intelligence (lack of) of the hunts folk.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"It is an utterly bizarre way to hunt. Dressing in red and black, blowing horns, and riding along with packs of yelping and baying hounds is pretty much opposite from the skilful stealth needed for hunting any other animal.

Poor foxes.

It's also how they meet those with whom they'll go on to in-breed. "

Good point!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's actually "Hunting with dogs" not a fox hunting ban. Most of the people collared have been poacher types using lurchers not the horse riding mindless Muppet's in red.

I was brought up very near to a hunt and found dead hounds that had been lamed then shot on a regular basis. These people are not animal lovers or respect nature they are at worst sadistic bloodthirsty maniacs and best mindless socialite tossers.

Hunting to control and protect or even put meat on the table is fine by me if it's humane and has a reason.

Killing something for sport however is sadistic,warped and less than a human being should be. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

So it's ok to be violent against animals but if you do it against people it means you have a low IQ?

I hate animal cruelty I think people who fox hunt are arrogant toffs who think because they have money its ok to hunt foxes for the thrill of the chase

does that make me unintelligent?

I happy to be so if it does"

No go back and read what I wrote. I pointed out that the few who were advocating violence against people did so with bad grammar etc. This would indicate that those individuals are probably of low IQ and that and violence against other people are linked.

I have lots of very smart friends who are against fox hunting. They like many others do so with reasonable arguments without the need to threaten anyone.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

There are quite a few in Brighton, so far they have ran when they see me coming on my bicycle. That could have something to do with either it being 3am, or the noise from the bike.

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised. "

I am anti hunt and have not used derogatory language. When I used to sabotage hunts I did not have my degree, or either of my two masters degrees, but I do now ... and I am still against hunting. Maybe some of the intelligent anti brigade who are swearing think that is the only way they can get through to the thugs. I was there when the hunts used to happen. I have seen the violence and the lengths they go to .... trust me, it is the only language some people can understand. All that's best about Britain? Makes me so proud ....not

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

That loud voice of the Master of the Hunt TALLY HO AFTER THE BASTARD WILL NEVER LEAVE ME

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Killing something for sport however is sadistic,warped and less than a human being should be. "

look around you, war is just part of life now days, people risking their life's and the life's of their children by the thousands on a daily basis in the medateranian and that's just one example of many

humans just can't co exist, we can't even co exist with our own kind so how can we respect the life's of others

it will never change

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London


"I've noticed that the only people advocating violence and using offensive words about another group of people are from the anti-hunt lot.

Judging by their grammar and spelling those making the threats are obviously not terribly intelligent either. People of lower IQ are more prone to violence against other people.

Why am I not surprised.

So it's ok to be violent against animals but if you do it against people it means you have a low IQ?

I hate animal cruelty I think people who fox hunt are arrogant toffs who think because they have money its ok to hunt foxes for the thrill of the chase

does that make me unintelligent?

I happy to be so if it does

No go back and read what I wrote. I pointed out that the few who were advocating violence against people did so with bad grammar etc. This would indicate that those individuals are probably of low IQ and that and violence against other people are linked.

I have lots of very smart friends who are against fox hunting. They like many others do so with reasonable arguments without the need to threaten anyone.

"

The worst violence I have experienced against me in my life was being surrounded by a group of male huntsman on horseback with my then boyfriend, we were uni. students at the time, they dunked us and held us under in a deep river and the police were nowhere to be seen ... we were a bunch of scrawny, ill fed veggie students, on student grants (those were the days) ... wait, maybe there was another time, police horses charging at us on a demonstration about another animal rights issue, watched a blinds protestor get trampled, and the horses trying to veer away in the process ...ah yes, the Tory Britain that we know and love .... here it comes again

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

Just one more then ...

"Panic reigned, with a woman bitten, a man falling off his bicycle as he was chased and a pest controller pursued"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That loud voice of the Master of the Hunt TALLY HO AFTER THE BASTARD WILL NEVER LEAVE ME "

It's quite funny every time the pro hunt people on here try and claim the intelligent high ground up you pop with one of these gems.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

Boxing day Morning Ye old Star Old town Bridlington Yorkshire could be over one Hundred on the hunt happy days in the 50,s.The sound of the horse on the cobbles as the hunt started

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Boxing day Morning Ye old Star Old town Bridlington Yorkshire could be over one Hundred on the hunt happy days in the 50,s.The sound of the horse on the cobbles as the hunt started "

I personally prefer the sound of carols. Each to their own.

And I prefered cuddling up to my dog than watching it rip flesh from other animals.

Bad, I know.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

Then have your turkey left overs

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff


"

That last point, about the cars - just ultimately proves how ineffective hunting foxes is, that more foxes die by accident. Also puts into perspective the 'huge pest' that they are, considering how few you see these days dead or alive. Why do people hate animals, either all or a specific species?

Also, normal people don't own a pack of dogs and horses. That's a right minority there, most dog owners actually care about their dogs as companions and pets. Fox hunters are exceptionally abnormal, gloating over extreme cruelty.

You're showing your ignorance. The dogs are kept as a business and have blood lines going back hundreds of years in some cases.

Normal people don't own horses? Are you kidding me? People from all walks of life own horses.

It's also very presumptuous to think that because they hunt they don't care for animals.

The fox has a chance and often escapes or goes to ground.

And you clearly don't get out into the country much. Road kill is all over the place.

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the dumb force is strong with this one. Don't see much countrysode? I live in the welsh valleys. A minority of people own horses - and an even smaller portion of them keep dogs for the 'buisness' of animal cruelty.

You can't call people who hunt for fun carers of animals in anyway whatsoever. What planet are you on?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33360817

I particularly like the quote from the chairman who "tweaked his groin" trying to get away from the marauding animal

"

I don't LIKE fox hunting and I don't agree with it either or any other type of animal hunting, especially the twat out of Stone Roses who thinks it's super-cool to shoot a fucking Giraffe and pose with it.

But I thought the fox hunting ban was a weird one to go through in the first place.

It leaves the door open for a whole bunch of other things to get banned too or at the very least debated and I found it weird the we took that risk to start with.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case.

am surprised females are against the reintroduction of bears any one i know has got a room with shelfs full of them

I'm bang along side re-wilding. It would make rambling much more exciting. "

I`m in love,lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just saying there's talk about re-wilding the UK, which may mean reintroduction of wolves and bears. It might be more than a few chickens getting et if that's the case. "

More people in Europe are killed by domestic dogs each year, than have ever been killed by Wolves, and we have dogs roaming the streets.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

If dog fighting is illegal because of the nature of it, then why are they hoping to bring back fox hunting.

Barbaric is the word I would describe both of the above.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If dog fighting is illegal because of the nature of it, then why are they hoping to bring back fox hunting.

Barbaric is the word I would describe both of the above."

Because generally dog fighting is associated with the lower class and fox hunting the upper class

a group of unemployed lower class people betting on what dog will win is seen as unacceptable

a group of upper class people going our for a social gathering over three country side chasing foxes is fine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I forgot to add tally-ho Rupert

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I forgot to add tally-ho Rupert "

Quiet Weasley!, go get the dogs.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then "

I don't think anybody reads anything here

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then

I don't think anybody reads anything here

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sorry did you say something

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then

I don't think anybody reads anything here

sorry did you say something "

"A woman who tried to distract the fox with food sustained a bite to her hand"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then

I don't think anybody reads anything here

sorry did you say something

"A woman who tried to distract the fox with food sustained a bite to her hand"

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is that an old Chinese proverb

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"So I guess no one reads 'orse and hound here then

I don't think anybody reads anything here

sorry did you say something

"A woman who tried to distract the fox with food sustained a bite to her hand"

is that an old Chinese proverb "

I'm done, I can quote no more nuggets of humour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's another reason why it shouldn't be brought back:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-healthy-foxhounds---including-6061265

Hounds will be the “other victims of fox hunting” if the sick sport is allowed to return, campaigners warn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Exaggerated stories, like when whalers used to speak of Whales attacking ships to justify their profession and make themselves seem brave, we all know Whales are peaceful animals now.

In fairness whales have capsised ships, just not on purpose... "

So did the captain of the Titanic, apparently!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox "

Ladies and gentleman.

And the winner of the idiotic post of the week goes to, .......................

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"ban fox hunting and let the wee hens live to the grand old age of 104 ...well actually probably wont see a year until a human comes along slits its throat plucks its feather and eats it wow thats the life for a hen people talk as thou chickens and hens are wee pets their not their your dinner your no better than a wee mad fox

Ladies and gentleman.

And the winner of the idiotic post of the week goes to, ....................... "

the guy with four feet

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


""Club members ended up barricaded inside the building, watching the fox on the CCTV system as it stalked outside"

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They were watching Fox?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Exaggerated stories, like when whalers used to speak of Whales attacking ships to justify their profession and make themselves seem brave, we all know Whales are peaceful animals now.

In fairness whales have capsised ships, just not on purpose...

So did the captain of the Titanic, apparently! "

I raise you Concordia!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone who compares keeping & slaughtering chickens for eggs & meat to fox hunting, ............well............

Obvously not too many brain cells needed here then!!

Goodnight to EVERYONE, - no intellectually discriminatory exceptions from me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saw footage of a huntsman whipping a protestor once. Says it all really. Pure arrogance. Keep the ban.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone who compares keeping & slaughtering chickens for eggs & meat to fox hunting, ............well............

Obvously not too many brain cells needed here then!!

Goodnight to EVERYONE, - no intellectually discriminatory exceptions from me! "

if you read it correctly it was its ok for humans to slaughter chickens but a fox eats one its lets set a pack of hounds on them but then again obviously you dont have many brain cells so just as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest.

Typical towny response. Do you know that the fox is killed very quickly by the pack. Shooting a fox is not guaranteed to kill it and it may run off injured to die slowly.

Calling the people who go on hunts, Hooray Henrys also shows your ignorance. I have friends who ride on hunts and they're just normal people. The horses get a good exercise, the dogs too.

Oh and I hope you don't drive because more foxes get killed by cars then any hunt could ever do. "

The hunt are generally a bunch of very decent people that are well involved in the local community and the hunts aww heavily involved in charity work.

Foxes that are caught by dogs are killed almost instantly.

It provides a valuable and sustainable income to the rural communities.

It brings communities together.

It provides horses and riders with exceptional routes and land to ride we would otherwise be unable to access.

Hunt masters provide a use for the blood hound, a breed of dog that may become extinct without the hunt.

It's one of the few living British traditions still going in a society, fast being accused of not being British or traditional anymore.

And us 'Hooray Henry's' are all normally some of the most educated 'morons' in the country.

Rural life and rural living is almost impossible to understand if you've never experienced it. Community is a huge part of life, over superficial and modern townie preferences. And the hunt is a community. Anyone that does not have the ability to open their narrow mind as to why it still goes on : I challenge you, spend 5 years in a rural community then re answer the same question. Or don't, because ignorance is bliss!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fox hunting with hounds goes against everything I hold dear about hunting. It's cruel and barbaric. The Fox is exhausted and scared when the end comes and its far from a quick and painless death as some claim - Fox hounds attack from the stomach and the animal is pretty much disembowelled whilst still alive. I grew up around the Quorn Hunt and was in a friend's garden when a pack of hounds cornered a fox and killed it in front of us. The cunts on the horses weren't the least bit apologetic either.

Hunt them with a rifle by all means, it's certainly more humane and sporting. Just remember it's humans that have invaded the foxes habitat.

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield


"I have 2 horses. Reckon I'm pretty normal.....

Can't stand any form of animal cruelty. If foxes need controlling why not do so with a cull?"

How do you propose to cull the foxes?

With poison? What about all the other animals & birds this affects

By shooting? In the same way as badgers have been successfully shot. A fox is far more alert than any badger and is far more likely to be injured by a marksman than killed.

Let’s find practical solutions rather than throw insults around.

Trapping? Again this affects more animals and birds than just foxes. Most foxes would avoid a trap as they have a keen sense of smell.

Whilst we are on the subject of cruelty, isn’t it time commercial fishing was outlawed. After all thousands of fish suffocate to death when caught isn’t that barbaric?

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

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""Club members ended up barricaded inside the building, watching the fox on the CCTV system as it stalked outside"

They were watching Fox? "

Yay!!! Some humour to compliment the purpose of the thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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It provides horses and riders with exceptional routes and land to ride we would otherwise be unable to access.

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Endurance riding also does this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have 2 horses. Reckon I'm pretty normal.....

Can't stand any form of animal cruelty. If foxes need controlling why not do so with a cull?

How do you propose to cull the foxes?

With poison? What about all the other animals & birds this affects

By shooting? In the same way as badgers have been successfully shot. A fox is far more alert than any badger and is far more likely to be injured by a marksman than killed.

Let’s find practical solutions rather than throw insults around.

Trapping? Again this affects more animals and birds than just foxes. Most foxes would avoid a trap as they have a keen sense of smell.

Whilst we are on the subject of cruelty, isn’t it time commercial fishing was outlawed. After all thousands of fish suffocate to death when caught isn’t that barbaric?

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I don't see anywhere i'm throwing insults around.

And you're comparing fishing for food to a blood sport.

I've known farmers who have shot foxes. Ones that are sick, ill, old. The same ones that the hunt claim they deal with.

I also have friends who hunt/are pro hunt and they say they rarely see a fox killed. So how exactly is this keeping the numbers down?

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over a year ago


"Not sure the hooray Henry's would be in that particular neighbourhood with their hounds

Keeping fox numbers down humanely is fine just can't stand the hunt lot charging about torturing the poor buggers for hours first arrogant tossers!

I used to very opposed to fox hunting but now I've grown up and seen the wider issues.

Foxes are a pest and need a natural predator to keep their numbers down. There isn't one so one has to be found.

Shooting/poisons aren't humane and kill healthy animals whereas hunting.....

If the animal is healthy and fit, it escapes. If it isn't, it dies. Numbers are reduced and nature takes it's course.

Back to natural selection, the strong survive and the weak die. And numbers are kept under control.

Foxes are a pest in the country and are now so in urban areas. There is nothing to stop them spreading so a solution has to be found.

How is the weather over there in lala land?

There is NO excuse to hunt for sport. If any animal needs killing for 'pest' control then do so humanely.

Of course, you could try running a mile or three in the foxes shoes whilst a pack of hounds chases you intent on ripping you apart. Then come back and talk about survival of the fittest.

Typical towny response. Do you know that the fox is killed very quickly by the pack. Shooting a fox is not guaranteed to kill it and it may run off injured to die slowly.

Calling the people who go on hunts, Hooray Henrys also shows your ignorance. I have friends who ride on hunts and they're just normal people. The horses get a good exercise, the dogs too.

Oh and I hope you don't drive because more foxes get killed by cars then any hunt could ever do.

The hunt are generally a bunch of very decent people that are well involved in the local community and the hunts aww heavily involved in charity work.

Foxes that are caught by dogs are killed almost instantly.

It provides a valuable and sustainable income to the rural communities.

It brings communities together.

It provides horses and riders with exceptional routes and land to ride we would otherwise be unable to access.

Hunt masters provide a use for the blood hound, a breed of dog that may become extinct without the hunt.

It's one of the few living British traditions still going in a society, fast being accused of not being British or traditional anymore.

And us 'Hooray Henry's' are all normally some of the most educated 'morons' in the country.

Rural life and rural living is almost impossible to understand if you've never experienced it. Community is a huge part of life, over superficial and modern townie preferences. And the hunt is a community. Anyone that does not have the ability to open their narrow mind as to why it still goes on : I challenge you, spend 5 years in a rural community then re answer the same question. Or don't, because ignorance is bliss!!!

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I really liked the part about the blood hound becoming extinct...I chortled more at that than anything else you spouted...

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Please keep it civil

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can we not learn to live without killing, we are shocked when a human child is killed, but it is the same instinct in a different direction, it`s the urge to kill that has to end, killing is killing, no matter how you choose to condemn or justify.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here

Can we not learn to have a laugh

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"Fox hunting with hounds goes against everything I hold dear about hunting. It's cruel and barbaric. The Fox is exhausted and scared when the end comes and its far from a quick and painless death as some claim - Fox hounds attack from the stomach and the animal is pretty much disembowelled whilst still alive. I grew up around the Quorn Hunt and was in a friend's garden when a pack of hounds cornered a fox and killed it in front of us. The cunts on the horses weren't the least bit apologetic either.

Hunt them with a rifle by all means, it's certainly more humane and sporting. Just remember it's humans that have invaded the foxes habitat."

We had a hunt go through our garden once. The neighbours had hidden the fox in their garage.

Want to hunt a wild animal? Use skill to do so. What's skilful about a bunch of horses and dogs chasing a small, not exactly dangerous animal?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can we not learn to have a laugh"

?

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?"

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

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over a year ago


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!"

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre.

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre. "

Oh yes I have watched the thread from when I first posted it!

Serious debate - questionable

My earlier response - why can't we learn to have a laugh? - quite appropriate given the fact the original post was not designed to develop a "serious debate", but simply raise a smile or have a giggle.

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over a year ago


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre.

Oh yes I have watched the thread from when I first posted it!

Serious debate - questionable

My earlier response - why can't we learn to have a laugh? - quite appropriate given the fact the original post was not designed to develop a "serious debate", but simply raise a smile or have a giggle.

"

Threads evolve from the original OP, it is the way of things

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

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"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre.

Oh yes I have watched the thread from when I first posted it!

Serious debate - questionable

My earlier response - why can't we learn to have a laugh? - quite appropriate given the fact the original post was not designed to develop a "serious debate", but simply raise a smile or have a giggle.

Threads evolve from the original OP, it is the way of things "

Of course

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre.

Oh yes I have watched the thread from when I first posted it!

Serious debate - questionable

My earlier response - why can't we learn to have a laugh? - quite appropriate given the fact the original post was not designed to develop a "serious debate", but simply raise a smile or have a giggle.

Threads evolve from the original OP, it is the way of things

Of course"

No hard feelings mate, take care,

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

here


"Can we not learn to have a laugh

?

Have you read the first post? And the link?

Thread was posted as a bit of light hearted humour - the story had nothing whatsoever to do with fox hunting!!

Have you kept track of the comments on here, the thread has evolved into a serious debate to which I was responding, why do people keep doing this to me? it`s bizarre.

Oh yes I have watched the thread from when I first posted it!

Serious debate - questionable

My earlier response - why can't we learn to have a laugh? - quite appropriate given the fact the original post was not designed to develop a "serious debate", but simply raise a smile or have a giggle.

Threads evolve from the original OP, it is the way of things

Of course

No hard feelings mate, take care, "

?? Why?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

so should it be banned or not ?

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By *heBirminghamWeekend OP   Man
over a year ago

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"so should it be banned or not ? "

That wasn't the question.

There was no question

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"so should it be banned or not ? "

fox culling no

fox hunting yes

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