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:clap:

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i think we need a new "touching forlock" smilie for when us "townies" are conversing with the upper class ;)

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Considering i am a Tory voter i should be a rabid fox hunter but i am not. In fact i was in front of the beck in my younger days for walloping a fox hunter :), And i would do it again tomorrow if i had the chance. :)

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Sure you are :), i believe everything a tory says.

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What ever, However that's fine coming from a liebour supporter :LOL:

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I would have thought hunting rabid foxes was a good thing, rather than letting them live and spread a pernicious virus.

Re nuts getting stuck in your teeth - may I suggest you crush your nuts with a mallet.

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Personally I can't see the Tories touching this issue with a bargepole if they win the election, they are well aware the majority of the public are against hunting and that most seem satisfied with the status quo.
I'd guess they'd use the excuse that there isn't enough parliamentary time to revisit hunting at present what with everything else we want to do.
Going back to what the hunters want would certainly be a step backwards in my opinion, irrespective of what any of the pro-hunting lobby say it "is" a barbaric practice, how can chasing down an animal with a pack of baying dogs in anyway be called sport?
There must be something missing in these peoples lives if their idea of pleasure is terrorizing and killing a living creature for fun.

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.22 rimfire works for me ;)

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The majority couldn't give a toss about hunting, it doesn't impact on their lives in anyway and they have much more pressing concerns to worry about.

Well let's hope so

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Theirs a lot of humans that are vermin buy we don't kill them by dogs ripping them a part, since whens killing a sport.

All fox hunting is for people with a lot of money to make themselves feel tough as they have little balls to actually do real tough things, up themselves, same here Sirius if I was face to face with a fox hunter he would get one right in the nose.

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Not exactly the same definition of vermin I'd use, I reckon you might get into trouble if you started laying down poison and traps for human 'vermin'
Plus it isn't really a sport is it?

I can't recall Sky sports broadcasting the world championships of fox hunting? Or beagles being transferred between hunts for multi-million pound deals.

It's like fishing, deer stalking, game shooting and all manner of other countryside pursuits that have been going on for years until people who don't know one end of a rifle from another (sadly) decided that mr foxy-woxy was too cute and cuddly to be a vicious killer and only needed a bit of direction in life to stop being naughty.

What happens to the fox at the end of the hunt is not pretty but thats life, a deer who doesn't get killed outright during a stalk isn't pretty, same as gamebirds that get winged or fish left wriggling after their heads get bashed in on the side of a boat.

I've never been on a hunt but I'm pretty sure the majority aren't swanning about in gold-plated range rovers. Instead they are people who live and work in the country and know how things work.

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That's certainly the case with the hunt that meets just down the road from me.
Most of them are customers of mine and in no way do they have a lot of money.

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You reckon? Welcome to the latest urban sport:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-streets.html

;)

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Pest control is usually more efficient than Hunting. Hunting exists purely for the "entertainment" of it's participants. Nothing to do with keeping fox populations down..

When was the last time you saw a rat catcher turning up with a many other people (all on horses) and a load of dogs?

I actually have no problem with pest control. Foxes *are* a problem in some areas, and certainly *aren't* the cute and fluffy slightly wilder cousin of dogs that the anti fox hunting lobby would have us believe. I've seen what foxes can do to other animals. What I do have a problem with is the barbaric spectacle of Hunting.

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:clap:

I personally think the only reason this act was passed was because the cutesy,wutsey brigade got together with the anti snob guard and got their way.

I'm against fox hunting only because it's a very inefficient and cruel way of culling animals.In the 21st century we don't need it to control animal numbers when we have so much technology and rather more humane and smarter ways to cull a species that over breeds it's food supply. Far better a few healthy specimens living within the food-chain than too many with mange and other diseases associated with over breeding. I certainly haven't got anything against country folk actually controlling fox numbers.Foxes are NOT an endangered species.