Bring Back Fox Hunting
says senior tory
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...g-1776160.html Personally I don't think we should have wasted as much time as we did debating it in parliment, the country had and has much more pressing issues to deal with, although it did rather annoy me to hear that arch buffon Tony Banks shouting ''that showed the toffs'' when it finally was banned, he was obviously more interested in some sort of class discrimination than any issues of animal rights/cruelty and besides if the figures are true about the huge increase in fox deaths since the ban then I am all for it staying and it's a shame we cant do the same in the cities, I am sick of seeing the mess they create and the occasional cat being chased. |
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TBH I can't understand what motivates people to want to kill wild creatures using overwhelming force, hardly sport is it? Now if the animals could fight back on equal terms I'd be happy with that but then I suppose it would lose its appeal to some people.
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Of course the ban on fox hunting had nothing to do with over £1 million in donations to the Labour Party from the organisation, Political Animal Lobby. (Link)
As if Labour would do something corrupt for money, you know, like planning to ease the ban on smoking sponsorship just for Formula 1, never mind Trade Union donations and other donations below £1million. |
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If foxes are considered a pest in an area (and no they're not a common pest) then there's a lot more effiecient and humane ways of disposing of them than being torn to pieces by a pack of dogs.. |
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The idea of Fox Hunting is not to eradicate them, but provide a limiting factor on their numbers.
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Here in the village there used to be a few hunts and more and more places were being taken up by city boys who were turning it into a commerial hunt purely for the sport.. I've no qualms about shooting rabbits decemating our field and probably would shoot a fox if it was attacking chickens... |
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Sounds like a very quick death to me that does. ;) Would you rather they be shot from distance and die slowly in some hedge? :( Quote:
So your happy with dog fighting? :erm: :dozey: Look its kind of a sport but at the end of the day foxes are vermin a pest who eats lambs, chickens etc and spread diseases :(. They need controlling in some way hey will breed and before you know it we are over run in the city and countryside with theses pests. :erm: Many years ago I looked after 20 chickens when I was a butcher I had a thing for theses chickens as you do when you feed an animal daily. One day I opened the hatch everyone bar two had the head ripped of just there bodies left!! Mr fox did not have the decency to eat the chickens he just mindlessly killed them for fun!!! This upset me :( ever since I have been in favour of fox control. IMO :) |
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Interesting and quite sad that you say it was city boys in your village, I recognised or knew nearly everyone participating in my old towns, which's only up the road from you incidentally, it was handy as it meant I could moan at them for delaying me when I next saw them. Quote:
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Weird thing is that we talk to all the local farmers in this area which has a high fox and badger population and none of them have problems at all with them.. In the end though the arguements for fox hunting is nothing to do with pest control but more to do with income for the people involved (hence it became a sport) |
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Maybe the fox was framed. Did you interview the 2 surviving chickens? They could have been the Rose and Fred West of the poultry world but didn't have the resources to build a patio. :) |
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