follow on from fox hunting

[5029]

Disregarding the cruelty or not to foxes, does anyone think that it is wrong to rear those dogs with a killer instinct and then have them all put down at the age of 2?

This seems to have been overlooked in the hunting question

[smudge]

Yes I do - it's selfish & cruel.

[andy hughes]

It is wrong - but it fits entirely with the 'countryside' attitude to animals. Fox hounds are working animals, bread for a purpose. When they are no longer useful for that purpose, they are destroyed. It is time to realise that the 'sport' of fox hunting belongs with badger baiting, bear baiting, dog fighting, **** fighting, and similar 'entertainment' - they have no place in a civilised society,

[andy hughes]

Sorry, that is 'bred for a purpose' - even I'm not that illiterate!

[brachiopod]

As Andy says, they're bred for a job, and once they are past performing that task, then they're put down. (Blast from a shotgun usually).

Ok, I can accept that - should we be any more sentimental about a working dog than an animal bred for meat and slaughtered after two years?

 

What I find difficult to accept is how the Pro-hunt lobby reconciles this with one of their oft-quoted 'arguments' for keeping hunting, in that "thousands of dogs will be have to be put down if hunting is banned".

Is this to elicit some sort of "Arrr, poor doggy-****** - let's not ban hunting after all" response from the voting public? The same public that they accuse of "not understanding country ways and being too sentimental about animals"?

I find that rather cynical.

 

[jills]

loving your words brachiopod.  very well put indeed.

[saffstar]

A good point, excellently put brachiopod.  It hadn't occurred to me quite like that before.  To answer the question yes, I think it's totally wrong.

[Dusky]

brachiopod, is it possible that the argument you cite is being used to play the opposition at their own game?  If the pro-hunt lobby feels it cannot make its case understood by arguing from its own point of view (since there are so many who think the way to engage in a discussion is to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "LA LA LA" before re-stating the same thing you just said), is it playing on the things its opposition understands and from which standpoint its opposition argues, to plead its own case?

 

There's no point arguing with a foreigner unless somebody present speaks both languages.

[woofgang]

In Horse and Hound magazine, I read that at least one hunt will be breeding puppies this year...how cynical is that??

[montyy]

well then surely the answer is to stop people breeding dofs for hunting and then they wont have to be put down? also i am all for the ban of fox-hunting

[Yeah Bee]

that is awful is it reall true.

[Vasquoy]

What a shocking revelation - humans breeding animals and then killing them!  Gee, never would have thought that would happen.

Just off to put on my leather shoes and go out for a steak.....

[Yeah Bee]

Ha ha. I don't mean but what the point in breeding dogs for two years then kill them. I f you don't find that awful well I hope you choke on your Mad cow disease steak.

Is it because the dogs should be small or to they just kill the ones that can't hunt properly.