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Originally Posted by Thomas T
Well when I used to live on a farm with my parents we never saw the need to go hunting but we DID have the need to sort the foxes out.
So I'm going to make myself unpopular now and say that when I caught a fox attacking our rabbits (think farming scale - not just one or two) or chickens etc I shot it. They were nothing but vermin to me. But I never felt the need to go hunting them.
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Exactly.Shooting them is and was a far more efficient way of dealing with them than get a group dressed in red jackets on horseback to go mob handed and watch a pack of hounds kill one by tearing it to bits.That is truly bestial and completely unnecessary.
Fox hunting was never about controlling foxes at all.However I didn't like the way it was dealt with by Parliament.This Labour government is far too keen to 'ban' things IMHO.