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Originally Posted by martyh
yes we do ,we also have the right to trap and poison foxes ,we just can't hunt them ,torture them or treat them inhumanely ,incidently the same as with rats and mice.If this was all about fox/pest control then hunting wouldn't even be an issue, after all it is the most ineficient way to kill an animal and a most efficient way to injure people ,horses and dogs
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The claim that hunting with dogs is 'inefficient' is an assertion that is frequently and loudly repeated by the anti-hunt lobby, and one which they seem to hope everyone will buy in to if they repeat it loudly and frequently enough.
It's an assertion that sadly doesn't get challenged often enough. So I think it's fair for me to re-post something I said in this thread back in March:
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Originally Posted by Chris
As for 'distress', well during the whole debate over the Act, 540 members of the Royal College of Vet Surgeons signed up to the statement that:
"Hunting with hounds is the natural and most humane way of controlling the population of all four quarry species" (the quarry species being mink, deer, fox and hare).
http://www.vet-wildlifemanagement.or...d=30&Itemid=32
... so, it seems, a lot of people who have expert knowledge of the subject disagree with you. |
The link is well worth reading. I would be very grateful if some of the people who have been so passionate to assert that hunting with dogs is 'inefficient' and 'unnatural' and 'inhuman' could give a thoughtful, reasoned response to the
expert opinion it contains.