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Originally Posted by Sirius
If the fox has to be culled then fine, do it with a gun not by dogs so that the people watching can
A. look on it as a sport.
B. Get some perverse pleasure from the act.
Why do a bunch of people have to chase the fox into the ground whilst making a sport and spectacle out of it. I would love to post a link to some of the videos of those people screaming and shouting and having a laugh at the death of an animal but i will not because it will upset people who may not have seen what its like in the first place.
A farmer with his shotgun can do it with less stress to the animal. However there is no fun or sport in that
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Why do you care how total strangers derive pleasure? What business of yours is it in any case?
As others have said, the assertion that death by shotgun is better from an animal welfare point of view is contested. Anything less than a clean kill results in prolonged suffering to the animal. The shotgun can also make no distinction between the stronger and weaker animals. Chasing down foxes with dogs offers the possibility that the stronger animals survive while the weaker are killed, which is better for the species. This may not be the reason the hunters do it, but it is nevertheless the case.