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Originally Posted by Chris
Makes the inordinate amount of time given over to enacting the ban in the first place all the more puzzling, eh?
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Tony bliar and his government spent 700 hours debating fox hunting in parliament apparently, they spent seven hours debating the invasion of Iraq, it's criminal and I'll be kind of annoyed if one more minute of parliamentary time is spent on fox hunting
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Let’s turn this on its head.
Say the beagles are turned loose into the wild. They breed, grow in population, etc. They are social animals and become the natural predator of the Fox.
What are we gonna do? Hunt beagles? Cull beagles?
So really this boils pretty much down to a class thing where some people deprecate the enjoyment by others of the hunt.
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Crazy thing is many many more foxes are being killed now, iirc one hunt killed more on the first day of hunting post ban than they did the whole previous year combined, some might say it's less cruel now but fox hunting shouldn't have been that cruel, 20 minutes was the average hunt length and one dog doing the kill instantly, not saying they were all like that just that they should've been, now we have so many foxes being killed scentless vixens are having to leave lairs because the male hasn't returned and being shot to leaving the cubs to starve and to cap it all most hunts pre ban never even caught anything, seemed to me a lot of people formed an opinion without acquainting themselves with facts and the subsiquent knee jerk legislation reflects that