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The Head of the Hunt said; "It's magnificent that so many well-wishers make such a huge effort to get here to show their support."
Do you think it is "magnificent"? Are you a "supporter"?
The Head of the Hunt said; "It's magnificent that so many well-wishers make such a huge effort to get here to show their support."
Do you think it is "magnificent"? Are you a "supporter"?
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To be fair Islay, I think the question is justified. You've admitted you enjoy hunting, it's not inconceivable for someone to ask you why.
Personally, I abhor fox hunting, until someone convinces me otherwise I cannot see what pleasure there is in pursuing an animal and then watching it being torn apart.
Personally, I abhor fox hunting, until someone convinces me otherwise I cannot see what pleasure there is in pursuing an animal and then watching it being torn apart.
One assault on a human by a dog & the unfortunate animal is put to death, yet it appears in some quarters to be OK for humans to enlist the aid of pack animals to tear another wild creature to pieces for their
' pleasure'. Seems pretty one sided to me. I am quite happy to see a fox hunted by ONE human, & see who wins.
' pleasure'. Seems pretty one sided to me. I am quite happy to see a fox hunted by ONE human, & see who wins.
Firstly I never said I enjoyed hunting I said i had been on several hunts - different thing entirely - I actually enjoy the ride!
Also I was on the hunt when it was still legal to do so.
The only fox I have seen killed was unfortunately got to before the master of the hunt got to it.
As for being locked up in jail that is your opinion nailit.
As for the other points thrown at me please let me know if I have missed anything out.
Also I was on the hunt when it was still legal to do so.
The only fox I have seen killed was unfortunately got to before the master of the hunt got to it.
As for being locked up in jail that is your opinion nailit.
As for the other points thrown at me please let me know if I have missed anything out.
I can't understand why the David Attenborough programmes are so popular. Almost every single one of them shows animals being killed in the most vicious ways by other animals, often hunting in packs, yet most people seem to detest this idea.
Every carnivorous or omnivorous animal is a hunter. A fox is omnivorous, making it a hunter, and that's its problem. While a fox is alive, it is killing other animals in much the same way that the hounds kill it.
I don't like foxhunting, but I don't dislike it. It's an irrelevance, if you accept that foxes have to be killed somehow, i.e. that they are vermin, which I do.
But that's all a bit moot, as foxhunting is illegal. So as for "It's magnificent that so many well-wishers make such a huge effort to get here to show their support" ... support for what? I would suggest they are not showing their support for foxhunting, but for the countryside tradition of keeping and riding out with hounds. There'll always be an England, take back control and all that.
Every carnivorous or omnivorous animal is a hunter. A fox is omnivorous, making it a hunter, and that's its problem. While a fox is alive, it is killing other animals in much the same way that the hounds kill it.
I don't like foxhunting, but I don't dislike it. It's an irrelevance, if you accept that foxes have to be killed somehow, i.e. that they are vermin, which I do.
But that's all a bit moot, as foxhunting is illegal. So as for "It's magnificent that so many well-wishers make such a huge effort to get here to show their support" ... support for what? I would suggest they are not showing their support for foxhunting, but for the countryside tradition of keeping and riding out with hounds. There'll always be an England, take back control and all that.
It's the whole killing for fun that we find abhorrent Ellipsis, as far as I'm aware no other animal, other than ourselves, kill for pleasure.
Whilst people claim foxes kill for pleasure, ie, more than they can eat (so therefore it must be fun) this simply isn't true. They kill surplus which if left undisturbed they'd return to later.
Whilst people claim foxes kill for pleasure, ie, more than they can eat (so therefore it must be fun) this simply isn't true. They kill surplus which if left undisturbed they'd return to later.
"Killing for fun" is a different issue. That would suggest that a) foxes aren't vermin and b) foxhunting was legal. I agree that "killing for fun" is bad.
Foxhunting is just not worth getting hot under the collar about when millions, perhaps billions, of such deaths are perpetrated every day in the natural world, and especially when foxhunting is already illegal!
Foxhunting is just not worth getting hot under the collar about when millions, perhaps billions, of such deaths are perpetrated every day in the natural world, and especially when foxhunting is already illegal!
