FabSwingers.com forum: Fox hunting

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

Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

Do you think there is any place in modern society for fox hunting on horse back with hounds, or do you think it should be done by other methods, or that it shouldn’t be done at all and the foxes left alone ?

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

No.

Yes.

No.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

No, it's barbric, causing too much animal cruelty and suffering. If control of numbers is needed, there are other methods that are superior for reducing that

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

No animal should die in the name of sport!!!

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

"No, it's barbric, causing too much animal cruelty and suffering. If control of numbers is needed, there are other methods that are superior for reducing that "

What methods do you use to control them ?

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

I think the hunters should be hunted, see how they like it.

And no, I’m not given by arguments of control. That can be achieved in other ways if necessary.

I’ve met a few of these types of people and the sentence contacting wouldn’t, piss and fire springs to mind.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

Containing ^

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

It's fucking disgusting.

If there is an argument to protect livestock do it with a gun.

surely there is a prevention method before this stage though, pursue though avenues first.

whatever you do, don't go chasing after these animals using other animals

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

It's one of the things that lost the tories their majority in the last election.

Because lots of tories feel very strongly about it, they promised to have another vote on it. However most people think that a strong desire to want to chase after and kill foxes is a bit weird, by extension they thought tories must be a bit weird...

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

"Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

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yes London is ideally suited to fox hunting lots of toffs with stables and certainly more than enough Lil cute hairy bushy tailed foxes

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

There is no place in any society for tormenting an animal for a persons pleasure and I have no idea how anyone can justify it.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

Still it will be interesting to see if the thread can finish without anyone making it political or showing contempt / jealousy of people with more money than them.

Ooops too late

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

"It's one of the things that lost the tories their majority in the last election.

They can still use dogs to ‘flush’ out the fox so it can be caught by a bird of prey, which is very bizarre.

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

Even more Bizarre is the fact foxes where exported to Australia for the purpose of "The Hunt"

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

I was dreaming about foxes last night.

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

"I was dreaming about foxes last night. "

Fleet Foxes ?

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

"Still it will be interesting to see if the thread can finish without anyone making it political or showing contempt / jealousy of people with more money than them.

Ooops too late

Everything is political

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

Any ideas on killing my neighbours cat in order to save my rabbits?

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

"It's one of the things that lost the tories their majority in the last election.

They can still use dogs to ‘flush’ out the fox so it can be caught by a bird of prey, which is very bizarre. "

What sort of bird of prey commonly found in England could take out a fox?

An Eagle maybe, but you don't get many of them in Sussex....

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

"I was dreaming about foxes last night. "
you've got a foxtail butt plug????

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

"Even more Bizarre is the fact foxes where exported to Australia for the purpose of "The Hunt"

Living in the Devon countryside, I know plenty of people who are connected to the hunt.

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

I love hunting, all of my family hunt, shoot and fish. We trail hunt now, we have a runner who heads out dragging a scent and we chase him instead now.

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

"I love hunting, all of my family hunt, shoot and fish. We trail hunt now, we have a runner who heads out dragging a scent and we chase him instead now. "

Ok, this could be interesting.

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

No its pointless

Dont mind rabbiting tho

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I don’t get what enjoyment a person can get riding a horse with a pack of hounds to see a fox been ripped to pieces.As a child growing up I didn’t understand what enjoyment / pleasure there was about this so called sport when it came up on the news about banning fox hunting and now as a man I still don’t get it.

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By *ob198XaMan
over a year ago

teleford

I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

When cats kill for pleasure ?

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

"I love hunting, all of my family hunt, shoot and fish. We trail hunt now, we have a runner who heads out dragging a scent and we chase him instead now. "

Why?

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

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By *ob198XaMan
over a year ago

teleford

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

Domestic cats don't hunt for food they are already over fed.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize."

I’ve got two of the bastards here now looking at me. What shall I do to punish them? Maybe pets at home have Hannibal Lectur face masks I can put on them. Yeah that will teach them. And next I’ll call 999 and hand myself in for being an accomplice by owning them.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

Domestic cats don't hunt for food they are already over fed.

And you’re trying to tell me what my cats do

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

Just show them a photo of a blue tit looking sad cause his father has been torn apart by Félix, they will get the message.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

I bring more bad news. I’ve got chickens that eat insects and grubs.

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By *imandHerNottsCouple
over a year ago

North Notts

Fox hunting is way too cruel.

As friends of the earth, we leave the foxes alone and put our efforts into hunting unicorns

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By *ob198XaMan
over a year ago

teleford

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

Domestic cats don't hunt for food they are already over fed.

And you’re trying to tell me what my cats do

I'm not trying to tell you what your cats do, you already know. I have cats too, mine are a work tool as they they do a great job controlling mice around the farm.

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By *ob198XaMan
over a year ago

teleford

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

And for the last part of that post, probably yes. There are a handful of people every year who's crimes against other people are so horrendous they should forfeit their life.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

Domestic cats don't hunt for food they are already over fed.

And you’re trying to tell me what my cats do

I'm not trying to tell you what your cats do, you already know. I have cats too, mine are a work tool as they they do a great job controlling mice around the farm."

Attack instead of defence then I’m guessing. Why not actually post your real thoughts and possible participation in the subject now.

But yes I know what my cats do, not you.

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

"Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

Oscar Wilde said much for his own amusement...and look where it got him

Your other methods...

You want to replace the hounds with unicorns shitting glitter dust?

The hunt have to ride the hounds or the hounds the horses?

Your going to give foxy a gun so he can fight back?....

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

"Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

Oscar Wilde said much for his own amusement...and look where it got him

Your other methods...

You want to replace the hounds with unicorns shitting glitter dust?

The hunt have to ride the hounds or the hounds the horses?

Your going to give foxy a gun so he can fight back?....

Oscar Wilde was mocking the English aristocracy with that quote, it was public indecency that got him sent to prison.

As for your other points, I haven’t got a clue what the point is you’re trying to make.

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

"Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

Oscar Wilde said much for his own amusement...and look where it got him

Your other methods...

You want to replace the hounds with unicorns shitting glitter dust?

The hunt have to ride the hounds or the hounds the horses?

Your going to give foxy a gun so he can fight back?....

Oscar Wilde was mocking the English aristocracy with that quote, it was public indecency that got him sent to prison.

As for your other points, I haven’t got a clue what the point is you’re trying to make."

Rather like I was mocking the mockery then....

He was sent to Reading Goal for homosexuality....it used to be a crime then.

And died penniless and shunned in France, from pneumonia I think.

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize."

Foxes will kill every bird in a hen house if they can get in.

They don't just kill for food.

They might look sweet and cuddly but they are deadly killers.

PS I hand reared an orphan cub until it was old enough to fend for itself before I released it to the wild.

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

Foxes will kill every bird in a hen house if they can get in.

They don't just kill for food.

They might look sweet and cuddly but they are deadly killers.

PS I hand reared an orphan cub until it was old enough to fend for itself before I released it to the wild."

Not true.

Left to its own devices a fox will return and take every body and bury it, thus creating a larder for itself. They generally get disturbed though.

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

Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

It's not cruel as a healthy fox will get away from any hound so the only ones that are getting killed arrvthe weaker ones that can't get there food anyway. And there is a lot more about now compared 2007 when the ban came in you it was very rare to seem them then round where I live now I will see one every other night. They need to be controlled same as anything animal does and itbwqs the beat way of doing it because you can't always shoot them where they are so dogs are they next thing.

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

Foxes will kill every bird in a hen house if they can get in.

They don't just kill for food.

They might look sweet and cuddly but they are deadly killers.

PS I hand reared an orphan cub until it was old enough to fend for itself before I released it to the wild."

Foxes kill surplus prey, even if they are not hungry and cache it for later use.

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

I’m very anti fox hunting.

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

A healthy fit Fox will never be caught by a pack of Hounds x only the week injured ill Will Be caught

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

So they only catch the weak and sick? I’m not sure that helps the cause. If we are overrun with foxes (and I have no idea if we are) there has to be a better way of controlling it than a group of horse and hounds chasing them across the countryside and taking pleasure from an unnecessary torturous death. Whatever the ultimate aim of it, the process is cruel.

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

So if you're a farmer and you've got a gun and you shoot a fox but you don't kill it outright and the Fox take a couple of hours or a couple of days to die from its injuries that's ok but a pack of Hounds will rip a fox up and kill it when a matter of seconds now tell me which one is cruel

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

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Ye they won't catch a healthy fox as it will be way faster than any dog even a good long dog won't catch a healthy fox. Sontheybare doing they unfit unhealthy fox a Faber really rather than it starve to death and it not like people see on videos that the antics put up where there are lots of dogs pulling it to pieces because a pack of dogs is like any other animal that hunts in a pack there will be one dog in the pack that is the strongest and fittest and would have killed the fox by with in a few seconds before the others start to rip it to pieces.

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

I think the actually act of dressing up on horse back, wearing red waistcoats and chasing foxes across the country, is perverse and twisted. There’s a strange juxtaposition where the people hunting the foxes often love the sight of the animal. You often see painting of foxes in peoples houses in the country.

They always use the same excuses, it’s a way of life, it’s tradition etc

But it boils down to they actually enjoy the sport however much they dress it up. I’ve lived in the country all my like and even since I was a kid I just found it fucking weird thing to do.

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

Maybe if they consider lifting the ban on fox hunting, they should trial it in the suburbs first. All those red coats and dogs garden hopping, chasing the fox down the high street, the dogs ripping it apart outside a café while the over privileged and inbred cheer! I think a lot of people would be put off! If it's a matter of pest control... eliminate the cruelty!

If all of your chickens get got... maybe you didn't protect them well enough!

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

"A healthy fit Fox will never be caught by a pack of Hounds x only the week injured ill Will Be caught "

So, what they then do, instead of being sporting and saying well done Mr (or Mrs) fox, you really outfoxed us this time and, then leaving it alone...they dig the poor thing out of its hole, if they can and then let the dogs at it. It kinda takes the sport out of sporting doesn't it!

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

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?

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

"I think the actually act of dressing up on horse back, wearing red waistcoats and chasing foxes across the country, is perverse and twisted. There’s a strange juxtaposition where the people hunting the foxes often love the sight of the animal. You often see painting of foxes in peoples houses in the country.

They always use the same excuses, it’s a way of life, it’s tradition etc

But it boils down to they actually enjoy the sport however much they dress it up. I’ve lived in the country all my like and even since I was a kid I just found it fucking weird thing to do. "

So do you find pheasant and grouse shooting weird too?

Or fishing...

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By *hips n FursMan
over a year ago

Huddersfield

"So if you're a farmer and you've got a gun and you shoot a fox but you don't kill it outright and the Fox take a couple of hours or a couple of days to die from its injuries that's ok but a pack of Hounds will rip a fox up and kill it when a matter of seconds now tell me which one is cruel"

Easy to answer...you don't take the shot unless you are sure it's a kill shot.

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

No, it's not an effective means to control a perceived pest, and I find it distasteful.

But I think there's a lot of people who live in a bubble with regards to the produce they eat, and nature itself.

If you want to eat meat, then maybe you should all experience catching and butchering an animal before doing so?

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

All the stuff about controlling foxes is so much humbug. Control might be a side effect of Fox hunting, but people do it not to control wildlife but because they enjoy a sport where the object is to scare and kill an animal.

Maybe it's because I had a thoroughly urban upbringing but I find that morally distasteful, as do most of the UK population.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?"

I have unfortunately and hopefully never again but I’m not clear what that has to do with fox hunting?

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

They always use the same excuses, it’s a way of life, it’s tradition etc

But it boils down to they actually enjoy the sport however much they dress it up. I’ve lived in the country all my like and even since I was a kid I just found it fucking weird thing to do.

So do you find pheasant and grouse shooting weird too?

Or fishing...

Yes, but not as weird as 30 people on horse back chasing something slightly bigger than a domestic cat, with a pack of dogs and an owl. Plus not forgeting the people that follow it all in cars.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Both but one is for sport and a persons personal enjoyment and one isn’t.

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

Both but one is for sport and a persons personal enjoyment and one isn’t. "

I hope the foxes appreciate the difference

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

Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Both but one is for sport and a persons personal enjoyment and one isn’t.

I hope the foxes appreciate the difference

The Fox is fighting for its life either way.

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?"

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

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By *aenMan
over a year ago

Here and There

Twice in the last year I’ve had wounded foxes close to the house. In one case taking chickens. They were wounded by botched attempts to shoot them and in a pretty awful state. I live 3 miles from the local hunt kennels and in both cases I called them to come and put them out of their misery.

I’m neither pro nor anti and can see both sides of the argument. However the hunt kennels do provide an invaluable fallen stock service which I have used in the past and no doubt will use in the future.

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?"

Don't people usually eat the fish they catch?

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Don't people usually eat the fish they catch? "

No, not always - a lot of the time they're caught, weighed, pics taken for "trophy" wall and thrown back. This is after they've been skewered through the mouth with a bit of sharpened metal, pulled out of their natural environment into one they can't breathe in, handled by humans, then had the hook wrenched out, inevitably causing damage to their mouths, then thrown back in. Great sport

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

Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

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

"I was dreaming about foxes last night. "

I seen one last night out my bedroom window...lovely looking little thing.

But I might think differently if I had a pet cat outside

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

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?

I have unfortunately and hopefully never again but I’m not clear what that has to do with fox hunting? "

I was suggesting cruelty comes in many forms. Fox hunting is a minority "sport" historically rural, and in a modern urban politically correct context an easy "target".

The logic deficit between what's considered acceptable cruelty and what isn't e.g. fox hunting is clearly palpable. But it's still a logic deficit.

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

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x"

They are still allowed to use dogs to ‘flush’ out the fox so it can be caught by a bird of prey.

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back. "

So the stress on the fishing being taken out of it's natural environment, dangling from a hook in its mouth until grabbed by a human hand and pulled free, often damaging the fish in the process is acceptable pain....whilst a fox being "ripped apart"...The usual emotive words isn't?

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x"

I wondered when somebody would point out that it is not only technically, but by law illegal, to hunt foxes (or any other animal) with hounds. It is now drag hunting, in other words, following an artificially laid scent trail.

I believe in Scotland, they use hounds to push foxes towards people with guns who shoot them (with various levels of effectiveness). The fox population of Scotland has reduced dramatically since the introduction of the Hunting (with hounds) Act !

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

It's the pleasure people take in watching an animal tipped apart I hate,be it foxes ,hares etc.

Horrible and cruel

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By *inkyLondonpairCouple
over a year ago

London

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?

I have unfortunately and hopefully never again but I’m not clear what that has to do with fox hunting?

I was suggesting cruelty comes in many forms. Fox hunting is a minority "sport" historically rural, and in a modern urban politically correct context an easy "target".

The logic deficit between what's considered acceptable cruelty and what isn't e.g. fox hunting is clearly palpable. But it's still a logic deficit.

Foxes are mammals, fish aren't. So we" feel" foxes pain more. Just had we would feel a fishes pain more than a flies.

The logic is that a more an animal is like us the more bothered we are by its pain.

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

Calm down you plum, where did I say anywhere that any hunting is acceptable.

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

"Oscar Wilde described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable !’

They should be left alone.

It's done under the guise of some kind of cultural thing... like shrunken heads... another dead and wrong and misplaced cultural pursuit

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

Fox hunting is barbaric and cruel as is all trophy hunting.

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

"Fox hunting is barbaric and cruel as is all trophy hunting."

What about vixen hunting

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

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

Can still use dogs for hunting I.e rabbits and rats but can't lamp rabbits

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?

I have unfortunately and hopefully never again but I’m not clear what that has to do with fox hunting?

I was suggesting cruelty comes in many forms. Fox hunting is a minority "sport" historically rural, and in a modern urban politically correct context an easy "target".

The logic deficit between what's considered acceptable cruelty and what isn't e.g. fox hunting is clearly palpable. But it's still a logic deficit.

Cruelty does indeed come in many forms. All the worse for being a ‘sport’ in this case which is why fox hunting is always mentioned. Animals are killed for many reasons but I don’t like the thought of anything suffering at the hands of people’s fun and enjoyment. I wouldn’t want to be the type of person to inflict or enjoy.

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

"Fox hunting is barbaric and cruel as is all trophy hunting.

What about vixen hunting

What are you going to shoot me with

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

Killing animals should not be a fun social occasion.

Yes foxes need their numbers controlled, I watched a fox jump my garden fence and steal one of my pet ducks on Tuesday

but I don't agree that a pack of dogs ripping them apart is the way to go.

And the control argument for hunting doesn't work for me because as far as I know about 1/3 of foxes in this country are urban, I can't imagine a bunch of hooray Henry's charging about the streets of London on their hunters.

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

"Fox hunting is barbaric and cruel as is all trophy hunting.

What about vixen hunting

What are you going to shoot me with

No shooting just trapping then taming

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

"I love hunting, all of my family hunt, shoot and fish. We trail hunt now, we have a runner who heads out dragging a scent and we chase him instead now. "

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

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

Foxes will kill every bird in a hen house if they can get in.

They don't just kill for food.

They might look sweet and cuddly but they are deadly killers.

PS I hand reared an orphan cub until it was old enough to fend for itself before I released it to the wild."

Of course. For a repeat food source. Fortunately keeping fences in a proper state of repair is fairly basic (unless you farm cattle and prefer shooting badgers as an excuse for not doing so) and all but the smallest farms receive a great deal of public money which can be used for such purposes.

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

"Twice in the last year I’ve had wounded foxes close to the house. In one case taking chickens. They were wounded by botched attempts to shoot them and in a pretty awful state. I live 3 miles from the local hunt kennels and in both cases I called them to come and put them out of their misery.

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

"Killing animals should not be a fun social occasion.

Yes foxes need their numbers controlled, I watched a fox jump my garden fence and steal one of my pet ducks on Tuesday

but I don't agree that a pack of dogs ripping them apart is the way to go.

This is so true, more killed by traffic than ever ripped apart by dogs. So most have adapted to living in the town...

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

Can still use dogs for hunting I.e rabbits and rats but can't lamp rabbits "

Really? Hunting rabbits with dogs, that's a new one on me! I use dogs to retrieve shot rabbits, but haven't heard of Rabbit Hounds/packs.

Rats I'll give you, that's what terriers are mainly for after all.

As far as I'm aware, providing appropriate permission has been granted, lamping rabbits isn't illegal.

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize.

Foxes will kill every bird in a hen house if they can get in.

They don't just kill for food.

They might look sweet and cuddly but they are deadly killers.

PS I hand reared an orphan cub until it was old enough to fend for itself before I released it to the wild.

Not true.

Left to its own devices a fox will return and take every body and bury it, thus creating a larder for itself. They generally get disturbed though."

This

It is a common misconception that foxes kill for fun. If there is a glut of kills they will take the bodies and bury them to eat later, but are often disturbed so they can't return and collect them. Hence foxes are murdorous thugs

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

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

Trail hunting is predominantly bullshit.

Surrounding woods full of hounds and making banging noises on saddles and telegraph poles, to keep fox cubs inside the woods is not trail hunting.

Men on quads with spades accompanying hunts is not for the purpose of trail hunting.

Hiring gangs of masked men to attack people filming, is not done for the purpose of preventing them filming dogs and horse riders along an invisible trail.

Feeding and releasing foxes or throwing them to hounds in sheds and dumping them in bins afterwards is not for trail hunting.

And even those hunters who are stupid enough to believe that people believe are stupid enough to believe they are trail hunting, are not stupid enough to lay trails through areas of dense and incredibly spikey gorse bushes. Or across national speed limit A roads. Or ending in people's gardens.

Even brazenly chasing foxes on horse back with packs of hounds and making zero attempt to call them off is not trail hunting.

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

"I love hunting, all of my family hunt, shoot and fish. We trail hunt now, we have a runner who heads out dragging a scent and we chase him instead now. "

You can pm me if you like, but how do you find using the trail?

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

They often don’t eat what they kill, just bring it into the house as a prize."

It's a present to say thank you and I love you. If it's still alive, then it's to say "I'm going to teach you how to hunt - you aren't feeding me enough!)

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

Calm down you plum, where did I say anywhere that any hunting is acceptable."

Inferred by your comment on fish being put back or eaten.

And I'm perfectly calm...as always plum!

I am merely pointing out the inconsistency of thought process by some on this thread

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

I am anti foxhunting. I have been since a child (when I lived in the countryside).

I am against all cruel "sports" - grouse/pheasant shooting, deer shooting, badger baiting, cock fighting, dog fighting and anything else that falls into that category (and plenty more that are legal and don't).

I'm also against the badger shooting to protect cows from TB - there is no evidence to suggest that it is effective.

I am also a vegetarian - don't own cats, but it is a natural instinct for a cat to hunt so I see no problem with them hunting.

Anyone want to berate me for my views?

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

"Should never have banned it same as other sports with dogs such as badger baiting and hare coursing it's been a way of life for years and years and was done for a reason.

Have you ever seen the inside of an abattoir?

I have unfortunately and hopefully never again but I’m not clear what that has to do with fox hunting?

I was suggesting cruelty comes in many forms. Fox hunting is a minority "sport" historically rural, and in a modern urban politically correct context an easy "target".

The logic deficit between what's considered acceptable cruelty and what isn't e.g. fox hunting is clearly palpable. But it's still a logic deficit.

Foxes are mammals, fish aren't. So we" feel" foxes pain more. Just had we would feel a fishes pain more than a flies.

The logic is that a more an animal is like us the more bothered we are by its pain. "

As I said before... cattle queing yo be bolted in an abbatoir while watching the beast in front dispatched.

We do not "feel" an animals pain. We cannot we are not that animal.

We may develop a social response to the perceived pain of detail animals based on our emotional or social conditioning.

Can't kill a fluffy bunny or foxes cos they are cute, but culling cattle is acceptable?

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

Perhaps if we expended as much energy on defending the homeless the dispossed the weak the vulnerable the lost....yeah people....

as we seem to do on doctinairre arguments about such a minority activity as fox hunting then the world may be a better place.

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I am anti foxhunting. I have been since a child (when I lived in the countryside).

I'm also against the badger shooting to protect cows from TB - there is no evidence to suggest that it is effective.

I am also a vegetarian - don't own cats, but it is a natural instinct for a cat to hunt so I see no problem with them hunting.

Anyone want to berate me for my views?"

No I’m glad I’m not being vilified again for owning a couple of moggies that mostly like to eat what they catch. Mice, birds, frogs. Biggest is partridge or pigeon. My cats are like feckin surgeons the way they extract the not so good bits

And yes I do feed them. And worm them

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

No, no and yes.

A "sport" for tossers imo.

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

"I am anti foxhunting. I have been since a child (when I lived in the countryside).

I'm also against the badger shooting to protect cows from TB - there is no evidence to suggest that it is effective.

I am also a vegetarian - don't own cats, but it is a natural instinct for a cat to hunt so I see no problem with them hunting.

Anyone want to berate me for my views?

And yes I do feed them. And worm them

Mine brings twigs and leaves in lol

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

Calm down you plum, where did I say anywhere that any hunting is acceptable.

Inferred by your comment on fish being put back or eaten.

And I'm perfectly calm...as always plum!

I am merely pointing out the inconsistency of thought process by some on this thread"

You deduce from the fact that fish are either eaten or put back (which they are) that I meant that fishing is acceptable, think it’s you who’s thought process that’s inconsistent you total plum.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

Unfortunately I can't find it but when the original fox hunting vote was going through parliament, Labour funded an independent report on fox hunting.

Unfortunately for them it actually stated that fox hunting was actually an effective form of control, so obviously they didn't use the report to fight their corner...

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By *lkDomWhtSubBiCpleCouple
over a year ago

Somewhere / Everywhere /Kinksville

"I am anti foxhunting. I have been since a child (when I lived in the countryside).

I'm also against the badger shooting to protect cows from TB - there is no evidence to suggest that it is effective.

I am also a vegetarian - don't own cats, but it is a natural instinct for a cat to hunt so I see no problem with them hunting.

Anyone want to berate me for my views?

And yes I do feed them. And worm them

Mine brings twigs and leaves in lol "

Can we swop?

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"I'm not going to stick up for fox hunting with dogs but I do always find it ironic when cat owners are passionately anti hunting..

Animals hunting for food. Whatever next. Bring back hanging

Domestic cats don't hunt for food they are already over fed.

And you’re trying to tell me what my cats do

I'm not trying to tell you what your cats do, you already know. I have cats too, mine are a work tool as they they do a great job controlling mice around the farm.

Attack instead of defence then I’m guessing. Why not actually post your real thoughts and possible participation in the subject now.

But yes I know what my cats do, not you. "

Congratulations on having the only cats that don't do what cats do...

Funny how cat owners can justify anything when it comes to their cats.

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"Unfortunately I can't find it but when the original fox hunting vote was going through parliament, Labour funded an independent report on fox hunting.

Unfortunately for them it actually stated that fox hunting was actually an effective form of control, so obviously they didn't use the report to fight their corner..."

It was the Burns Inquiry

Commissioned by Jack Straw (then Home Sec), at a cost of £7m to the taxpayers (us, in other words) and ignored by Tony B.Liar and his Labour government. Resulted in the Hunting Act 2004.

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

Calm down you plum, where did I say anywhere that any hunting is acceptable.

Inferred by your comment on fish being put back or eaten.

And I'm perfectly calm...as always plum!

I am merely pointing out the inconsistency of thought process by some on this thread

Context is all. Your comment was a direct response to someone up the thread asking if fishing was acceptable. The inference of your response was far from negative and included a justification for fishing...ie they are put back or eaten!

Perhaps you have an issue when anyone dares to question your own thought processes?

And the "total plum" comment, twice now. Just a bit juvenile....don't you think?

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"It's one of the things that lost the tories their majority in the last election.

It exposes a particular streak of cruelty amongst certain Tories.

First they came for the foxes . . .

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

"Is fishing for sport any better than fox hunting?

Well, they’re usually eaten or put back.

Killing to eat is ok? Grouse pheasant sheep cattle etc too.

More than a little logic deficit in your argument.

I prefer my personal prejudices to be placed with a little logic...

Calm down you plum, where did I say anywhere that any hunting is acceptable.

Inferred by your comment on fish being put back or eaten.

And I'm perfectly calm...as always plum!

I am merely pointing out the inconsistency of thought process by some on this thread

Perhaps you have an issue when anyone dares to question your own thought processes?

And the "total plum" comment, twice now. Just a bit juvenile....don't you think?"

Plum

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

Fox hunting is illegal.

Drag hunting isnt. During the "fox" hunts, they arent really hunting foxes. However you do get some wankers who do. These are the ones who get into the papers and give those who drag hunt a bad name

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By *lenderfoxMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Please don't hunt me

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By *iker BullMan
over a year ago

leeds

Inbred gentry and the like,its a class status thing

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"Fox hunting is illegal.

Drag hunting isnt. During the "fox" hunts, they arent really hunting foxes. However you do get some wankers who do. These are the ones who get into the papers and give those who drag hunt a bad name"

As it has been since 2004.

There will always be the odd "bad apple", but nowhere near as many as the antis (LACS/IFAW/PETA etc etc) would have believe, as is borne out by the scarcity of court cases and convictions.

Crown Prosecution Service was recently castigated for wasting the courts time, following a number of cases being thrown out for lack of evidence!

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By *outhwestmartMan
over a year ago

Gloucester

Nobody here from a traditional town/village where fox hunting has been tradition for such a period that your great ancestors would have supported?

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

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

Trail hunting is predominantly bullshit.

Surrounding woods full of hounds and making banging noises on saddles and telegraph poles, to keep fox cubs inside the woods is not trail hunting.

Men on quads with spades accompanying hunts is not for the purpose of trail hunting.

Hiring gangs of masked men to attack people filming, is not done for the purpose of preventing them filming dogs and horse riders along an invisible trail.

Feeding and releasing foxes or throwing them to hounds in sheds and dumping them in bins afterwards is not for trail hunting.

Even brazenly chasing foxes on horse back with packs of hounds and making zero attempt to call them off is not trail hunting."

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"Inbred gentry and the like,its a class status thing"

That's the way Labour portrayed it, as another part of the class war.

Proven to be anything but I'm afraid, the majority of hunt supporters, including Masters, are actually "working class" people

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

"Fox hunting is illegal.

Drag hunting isnt. During the "fox" hunts, they arent really hunting foxes. However you do get some wankers who do. These are the ones who get into the papers and give those who drag hunt a bad name

As it has been since 2004.

There will always be the odd "bad apple", but nowhere near as many as the antis (LACS/IFAW/PETA etc etc) would have believe, as is borne out by the scarcity of court cases and convictions.

Crown Prosecution Service was recently castigated for wasting the courts time, following a number of cases being thrown out for lack of evidence!"

My mam's mate breeds hunt hounds. If a pup (when in training) doesnt stop following the scent of a fox, the pup is rehomed.

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

"Well technically fox hunting is banned in this country so why are people jumping on there high horse about it x nowadays people still go hunting but it's all done by sent x

Probably the same story in most of the countryside. Populations of foxes were managed on estates for the purposes of being hunted. When hunting was made illegal there was no point in allowing the foxes to live and possibly endanger lambs etc. So they were gassed or shot or both.

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

A fit Fox would escape, a wounded or ill Fox was quickly killed. Hunting was survival of the fittest. Sadly they are shot now, and if wounded die later from gangrene. In the real world animal welfare isn't a simple thing. Like someone spending 200k to shoot a giraffe. The old giraffe dies, quickly and humanely, rather than slowly of starvation, the local game reserve gets 200k for anti poaching patrols to save rhinos......the world is a wierd place!

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

"Inbred gentry and the like,its a class status thing"

Haha bloody hilarious, can’t believe people still think this. I’m a nurse, hardly inbred gentry...

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

"A fit Fox would escape, a wounded or ill Fox was quickly killed. Hunting was survival of the fittest. Sadly they are shot now, and if wounded die later from gangrene. In the real world animal welfare isn't a simple thing. Like someone spending 200k to shoot a giraffe. The old giraffe dies, quickly and humanely, rather than slowly of starvation, the local game reserve gets 200k for anti poaching patrols to save rhinos......the world is a wierd place!"

So how is killing the weak foxes and letting the fit healthy one's live, in anyway pest control.

So hunters mentality is they actually think the whole 1-2 unhealthy foxes they torture per hunt is actually an effective pest control method.

So leaving the stronger more robust foxes to a spread their genes is all part of the pest control argument then.

Must be the towney in me not getting it, as leaving the fit ones to continue breeding, and killing the weak ones isn't pest control, it's fucking conservation.

And anyone bitching about foxes killing their animals, then that's your fault for not doing enough to protect them. And if your such a shit shot that you don't kill a fox outright, you have no business shooting for pest control methods and should be getting professionals in.

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

i think its wrong , be like using a real rabbit for greyhound racing

same as pheasant shooting , they shoot the gun making the pheasants fly into the sky then shoot them down , all wrong

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

Cats can be heartless killers when it comes to small animals. But I'm yet to read about a domestic cat mauling a child to death. Let's ban dogs over 5kg.

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

"i think its wrong , be like using a real rabbit for greyhound racing

same as pheasant shooting , they shoot the gun making the pheasants fly into the sky then shoot them down , all wrong "

No no no! The beaters scare the bird towards the guns! They die quicker than your roast chicken did by the way.

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

So how is killing the weak foxes and letting the fit healthy one's live, in anyway pest control.

So hunters mentality is they actually think the whole 1-2 unhealthy foxes they torture per hunt is actually an effective pest control method.

So leaving the stronger more robust foxes to a spread their genes is all part of the pest control argument then.

Must be the towney in me not getting it, as leaving the fit ones to continue breeding, and killing the weak ones isn't pest control, it's fucking conservation.

Th unfit foxes are the ones that kill poultry and lambs. Healthy foxes eat rabbits.

Trails are hunted now in UK. They still hunt in Ireland, France and US.

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

So how is killing the weak foxes and letting the fit healthy one's live, in anyway pest control.

So hunters mentality is they actually think the whole 1-2 unhealthy foxes they torture per hunt is actually an effective pest control method.

So leaving the stronger more robust foxes to a spread their genes is all part of the pest control argument then.

Must be the towney in me not getting it, as leaving the fit ones to continue breeding, and killing the weak ones isn't pest control, it's fucking conservation.

Th unfit foxes are the ones that kill poultry and lambs. Healthy foxes eat rabbits.

Trails are hunted now in UK. They still hunt in Ireland, France and US. "

That still comes down to owners not doing enough to protect their animals.

We had chickens who shared a field with foxes. Not once did we lose any to the foxes, because we actually build appropriate shelters that they couldn't get into.

If livestock are being killed by foxes, that's down to laziness and being too cheap to protect your animals.

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"i think its wrong , be like using a real rabbit for greyhound racing

same as pheasant shooting , they shoot the gun making the pheasants fly into the sky then shoot them down , all wrong "

You plainly know absolutely nothing about pheasant shooting !!

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By *outhwestmartMan
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Fox hunting is illegal.

Drag hunting isnt. During the "fox" hunts, they arent really hunting foxes. However you do get some wankers who do. These are the ones who get into the papers and give those who drag hunt a bad name

As it has been since 2004.

There will always be the odd "bad apple", but nowhere near as many as the antis (LACS/IFAW/PETA etc etc) would have believe, as is borne out by the scarcity of court cases and convictions.

Crown Prosecution Service was recently castigated for wasting the courts time, following a number of cases being thrown out for lack of evidence!

My mam's mate breeds hunt hounds. If a pup (when in training) doesnt stop following the scent of a fox, the pup is rehomed. "

fox hunting still remains lawful in Northern Ireland!!

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Why is it necessary to have name calling? This is exactly what puts people off commenting on threads

people can disagree without stooping to that level.

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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago

North Norfolk area

"i think its wrong , be like using a real rabbit for greyhound racing

same as pheasant shooting , they shoot the gun making the pheasants fly into the sky then shoot them down , all wrong

You plainly know absolutely nothing about pheasant shooting !!

Hahahahahahahah brilliant! Dumb shit! Have no idea... is this opportunities for people who think they know it all jumping in! No idea about hunting!"

Educating the uneducated......it's a thankless task, but some of us do persist nevertheless

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By *hloe sussexTV/TS
over a year ago

Larne

Takes one dumb bitch to hunt another