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Fox hunting coming back.
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If the Tories win the election.
Vote winner?
Vote winner?
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If they're concerned about the population, well then they have to control the population - including culling which I think is fine - humanely. That's not the objective when they create artificial earths and encourage more breeding pairs - the objective is to have lots of foxes to hunt in the season because it's a grand day out, it would be boring if they didn't find any.
I expect for a lot of people it would be a vote winner though. Kind of like a NIMBY thing, except in reverse.
its put me off voting for them, i'm not an animal rights activist or anything i just don't like posh upper class toffs (or tossers as i call them) getting their own way as usual, fox hunting is cruel, not just to the fox, they starve the hounds before a hunt, often push the horses beyond their level and then they don't kill the fox humainly, they let the hounds rip it to shreds when its so exhausted it can't run away anymore.
those 2 reasons have put me off them completly
(you may have noticed i dispise posh twats with a passion)
There are about a million more important issues than this. The economy is completely fucked, our country is run by a shower of cunts - and you're worried about some foxes being shot?
The only difference it will make is that more foxes will end up being torn up limb from limb and disembowelled alive for the amusement of twats on horses.
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Thats the truth.
To many bad shots about as well.
You blow half the foxes head off and it can take days ...weeks to die.
I suppose Gordon Brown is responsible for America being bankrupt.
^^ what he/she said.
It's not a manifesto promise but it will likely come up again as a free vote - which is slightly different.
I heard he faked the moon landings, but not before setting up a CCTV system on venus.
Yeah ...if you listen to SG Brown is probably responsible for 911 too.
It makes me sad that in a so called civilised society, so many people consider foxhunting a 'sport'. If I kicked a dog around the room for fun, that would be abuse, no?
Fox hunting is repulsive and so is trapping and so are the people who do it imo.
Thankyou very muchly SG for that comma:D
I don't quite understand what you mean. Its not a promise to automatically repeal the fox hunting ban but a promise of a free vote.
Considering some Tories did indeed vote for the ban and then add that to the Labour and Lib Dem votes, the Tories would have to win the election by a huge landslide to unilaterally repeal the law. That landslide is extremely unlikely.
It's only a number of Lords and the few but very powerful advocates of the sport who mounted a monumental campaign of derailment trying to stop the law from coming to be, and who indeed think it is okay to tear foxes apart for entertainment.
And then if you were to chase that dog on a horse, with a gun...
I don't quite understand the enjoyment people can get out of killing animals.
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It's a buzz. Never been very keen on fox hunting, though most of the girls I know used to participate. The only hunting with dogs I've done is ratting and ferreting which is great fun.
I could give a fuck about fox hunting. It's only a bloody fox.
Neither is fox hunting a British innovation. Plenty of other European countries have their own long tradition of hunting foxes with hounds such as France, Italy and Ireland, for example, have thriving fox hunts.
yes- but the humans know perfectly well what they are doing!
And, skive, I can't even be bothered to comment further on your post.
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You just have
I don't give much of a fuck whether it's legal or not. I thinks it's important to get some perspective though, foxes are still killed legally by methods no less 'horrific' and there are definately some legitimate reasons why it's the best way to control them.
Still, I'm not a fan of chasing an animal miles across country for it to be ripped apart. Same with hare coursing.
Ratting, ferreting and falconry are quite different, there's no drawn out pursuit. And of course the death of rats, rabbits and birds doesn't seem to bother people as much as cute cuddley foxes.
:grump: bitch.
haha... changing the post...
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Absolutely! That's why I don't support fox hunting.
Actually they send in terriers to grab onto them and try to pull them out. If they fail, they dig with spades. You've never heard of terrier work?
As Skive though, I know plenty of people who used to go, and the whole killing of the fox and the hunt are very divorced. There are even rules to stipulate when you must stop chasing / when you are allowed to start in order to give the fox a 'fair and sporting' chance. So for example, if you come across an earth with a fox in it, you must send in a dog to chase it out, let it get a fair bit away, then you are allowed to chase. It would be seen as 'unfair' to just kill it before its been chased.
They also attempt to block up as many earths as they can find, to stop the fox going to ground so they have a better chance of a good chase.
I've believe that's true but not all hunts end in that procedure. I suppose it depends on the number of (vermin) foxes in the area. To kill every fox in an area would, ultimately, take away the 'social' aspects of the hunt.
The important world two worlds there are: Not all.
Because they show that some hunts DO end like that, and surely even one out of every ten hunts ending like that is atrocious!
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