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foxhunting poll
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Is this a bag or have I been blacklisted?
Thanks
I was suprised by the results also. There ya go just shows you that you can never be sure about which way people vote.
Reasons?
Urban or rural?
Its ok giving an opinion but for the research your background etc is also required.
I live in an urban area and I feel that those in rural areas should possess the right to hunt.
Reasons being that although I believe in fox population control I don't think hunting with dogs is a very humane way of doing it.
like Al I realise the fox population needs to be controlled but don't think hunting is the most humane way.
growing up on a small farm I have experienced the results of being visited by Mr and Mrs Fox. I have also had to bury new born and young animals/birds that have had their eyes pecked out/been peck to death by magpies/crows. I have also seen the effects that some dogs can have among sheep.
I understand natural rural life cycles but in my opinion a fox being subject to an orgainised chase doesn't really fit into this.
I mean a place near me has a lot of wild cats breeding. Now if I took a pack of hounds down there and set them on the cats I'd be charged for animal cruelty. What's the difference between a cat and a fox? The only reason these people get away with it is because they're loaded.
Furthermore, on the idea of job loss... Hundreds of jobs are being lost in Wales due to factories closing, nobody bats an eyelid... but if a farrier loses his job... oh my god catastophy!
Banning foxhunting will cause joblosses... but there are hundreds going anyway. But of course... rich kids get it all :rolleyes:
My reasons aren't that different from others i've seen here, i just think it is very cruel towards the fox & the fact that its considored a sport & is done for fun as well as for population control is sickening. THe population control angle i can understand but there has got to be another way of going about it. At the end of the day, whatever anyone says, it is cruelty to animals and as MoonRat said if it was done with other animals, such as a cat, then you can almost gaurentee everyone would be against it & you would be charged.