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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Read upto page five of this thread and living in the country most of my life a couple of things struck me. One foxes do not just kill what they need they will kill everything in a given area i have seen it with chickens and even lambs when there are a couple of them. Foxes are not the cute little fluffy things many people believe them to be in the nice big towns and citys they are a nuisance and can be a big problem.
Two fox hunts didn't always manage to catch a fox and that wasn't strictly the point of them. Main point was to put caution into the fox population making them wary to go beyond a certain area and keep them from spreading something that since the ban they have done in many many areas. Where i live i can look out my window any night and see at least two foxes roaming and when they can killing cats. They have a little routine which seems to work well for them.
Opposite my house is a secondary school with a nice big gate and everynight the foxes will come out walk across the little car park and hide behind the pillars and wait for a stupid cat and when one comes near through the gate it goes and the fox walks back to it's home with a fresh cat. This issue did not need to be addressed in the way it was but labour has a simple mantra "if we don't like it ban it" and this along with a few other things was a victim of that.
Personally i would prefer the hunts to start up again so the foxes would bugger off out of the town taking with them the killing of people's pet cats and the mess they make everytime someone doesn't put a binbag in the wheelie bin and i wouldn't miss them at all.
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the hunts wont stop that and fox migration in to urban areas was happening long before hunting stopped and could arguably been because of the less likely hood of being hunted
as to foxes killing everything in an area lol what do you expect if you herd together a load of food whether it be a fox ferret or dog that got loose in a hen house not much would survive
as to lambs that's what we used to have shepherds for
again if you put a plentiful food source in an enclosed area then its likely a predator will kill many
fox hunting isn't the way to solve any of those problems and in any case often they had to breed foxes to hunt because the area was being used mainly for crop farming
going back to a barbaric way of hunting for pleasure for that is all it was is taking us backwards and gives us less moral grounds to opose other countries maltreatment of animals