Fox Hunting

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33100242

I don't understand this at all. The Countryside Alliance has been telling us for years that foxes need to be hunting with dogs, as they are a nuisance. I agree that foxes can be a nuisance, although not the bit about hunting with dogs.

But this evidence in the BBC link clearly shows that somebody is rearing fox cubs, for the express reason that they can be hunted.

And its just sheer coincidence that they are being kept 200m away from the hunt kennels ?

So, if they are not being deliberately reared so that they can be hunted, why are they being reared at all ?

[Psybbo]

Signed

[FrogNog]

The hunt doesn't respect that right in the heat of the chase 237. I saw that many times.
What is your defence? You like mauling animals?
Give me a good reason for this level of barbarism please?
I am a country person, so please don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.

[237SJ]

Frog - you must have misunderstood me. I don`t condone fox hunting. Never have.

[mikey4444]

237....with respect, can I suggest that if you don't condone fox hunting, you would help your case if you opposed it with some increased vigor.

[FrogNog]

I apologise 237, I read you wrong :)

[237SJ]

Mikey - I have said that I don`t condone fox hunting so I don`t actually know what you mean

[mikey4444]

Horrible story divebuddy. I used to live in Watchet as boy in the 60's and I saw something similar when Dad was taking myself and my younger brother to school one day. Very upsetting.

[237SJ]

I remember seeing a stag that had been chased down the high street at South Molton and the poor thing ended up on the school roof before being shot. Still, who needs to worry about stags when there are are more politically correct foxes to be concerned about?

[FrogNog]

Actually 237, reading through your previous posts, I don't see you condemning fox hunting either.
Sick. That's the only way to describe this "sport" or contrived "living".
The whole thing disgusts me and the people who join in disgust me even more than the people who'd willing have someone else tear a wild animal to shreds from the comfort of their favourite chair.
Nothing you can say will change my mind on this issue.

[FrogNog]

I don't care what animal it is 237, it's barbaric and shows a lack of evolution on the part of people who do it.
People who enjoy torturing animals are less evolved in my opinion.

[Retrochic]

What aggravates me more than anything are the comments that you can't be a 'real country person' if you oppose Hunting with Dogs. This is absolutely ridiculous, and for the record, real country people such as farmers,people who make their living off the land etc are not old-fashioned stereotypes of country folk -they ARE the true country people who, contrary to a lot of opinions,respect animals and if they have to be controlled will dispatch them quickly with a shot gun -not dress up in a red coat and make a social occasion out of it.

[brionon]

Kill the Foxes -get Rats. Choose !

[ummmm]

I think you are getting 237 wrong. She hasn't at all condoned fox hunting, only pointed out there is a difference between people who live in the country.

The family that live in the cottage down the lane and the family that live in the manor house and own acres and acres of land.

[melv16]

I'll lay odds that nothing will come of this. The police and magistrates will be in the pockets of the local hunt.
No charges were brought when a hunt local to me ripped an alpaca to bits. The owner went on local radio and was interviewed by the press. There was a thread on my local forum.
No charges were brought and the articles in the press mysteriously disappeared. The thread on the forum vanished as well...

[chaptazbru2]

As I've said on similar threads before, I was a sabber in my younger days (used to go out to try and stop hunts) and it was well known then that the hunt used to breed foxes for the hunt. Just ask the anti hunt charities who fought hard to get the evidence. Nasty lot the hunters !

[chaptazbru2]

237SJ - I am concerned about any animal hunted by dogs, particularly stags !

[Retrochic]

Ummmm yes I know 273SJ has never condoned fox hunting publicly on here. What she has done is suggest that anyone who was anti-hunt and lived in the country was not a real 'Country Person'. I pointed out that from personal experience that is nonsense as real country people , ie Farmers,Local Residents born and bred, dislike the Hunt mainly because of the damage it causes, pets have to be kept indoors and the lines of huge 4X4's clogging the roads following the Hunt, causing traffic jams and parking where the hell they feel fit. The Pro-Hunt brigade only have one excuse for killing for fun 'its Traditional and a country way of life' and portray anyone who is against it as tree hugging yogurt knitting townies or 'New Country' -its just not true.