Fox hunting/culling

[Fly]

Took a customer home today, lives in Hasland, that's all I'm saying.
Apparently the Land owner over the road has shot 20 in the last 3 month.

Now Mr Slack will hate me for this.
How many fox hunts in Hasland have killed/slaughtered 20 foxes in the last 3 month ?
If they had the right to, obviously.

[Alsatian]

Saw one in Nottingham the other year, not kidding, it was the size of an Alsatian 

Oy! Taking my (user) name in vain!!! 

Seriously, when I had our dog I used to see a fair few foxes around when I took her for a walk at night-time.

[Old Cruser]

I don't think it's unusual for farmers to shoot foxes - they eat their chickens. Have seen quite a few on the run across from home to matlock. We also had one which began visiting our back garden - quite scary as we have a cat - I didn't want him to become lunch for the fox - not seen it for ages now though thank goodness.

[Fly]

It's a very touchy subject OC. 
It's ok to shoot them, but fox hunting, by dog, horse, is banned.
I've had a drinky, and calling it a day.

Don't think it will affect my oppinion though.

[~Aitch~]

We have loads of them around here.  My son found a dead one in his garden when he returned from holiday last week.

[Old Cruser]

I.m not for killing foxes but understand why the farmers do. Certainly do NOT agree with fox hunting though terrible thing to put any living creature through - they probably the type of person who would pull the legs off daddylong legs!
Cull if they must but in a proper humane way is my opinion.
Fly - drink or not your opinion was 'sound'   

[k4blades]

Last year we set off on our hols driving to the airport about 3.00am and we saw a few of them on the roads around Poolsbrook park. As I've mentioned before, we have chickens, and so far, not had any problems with foxes coming in the garden but I know other people who have lost chickens to foxes.

Which begs the question, whats the difference between a fox hunting a chicken and a dog hunting a fox. There isn't one really, its part of nature. And as for the man on the horse half a mile over the hill, from the foxes perspective, he's not a factor.

I have no strong views either way about fox-hunting, I'm not interested in it, and it has no bearing on my life. But as Constant Readers ought to know, I do so hate political hypocrisy, and this is the perfect example.
You could argue foxhunting is cruel, but then isn't fishing. A man catches a fish by sticking a hook through its mouth, then drags it out of the water where it almost suffocates, hangs it from the mouth to be weighed, throws it in a net so it can't escape, then at the end of the day, lets it go again, so that he can do it again the next day. Why is that not cruel, and if it is, why did Labour not ban recreational fishing. If any politician had the balls enough to be honest to the electorate, they would tell us that fox-hunting was banned because its seen as being done by toffs, but fishing is done by the common man. Nothing to do with cruelty, and everything to do with the politics of envy and class war.
The only solution I can see is to replace fox-hunting with politician hunting, much more justifiable.
 

[Pete]

Well, for a start off the men and women on horses have brought up to 70 dogs to a place where they can chase one fox.

[Fly]

My late father used to own a Lurcher dog. Fastest thing on four legs I'd ever seen run.
We used to take him for early morning walks. I'm going back 20 years here.
Lurchers have a born instinct to chase rabbits, so did our Blue.
A few times a year he'd actually catch a rabbit, he'd either kill the rabbit or pin it to the floor.
The rabbits would be taken home and put into stews.

If fox hunting had been put to the public vote, ban, yes or no. I'd have voted no.
I'd have felt hypocritical to myself to vote yes.

Our_Lass fishes, yet is against fox hunting.
Her angst against it, is that the pack of hounds kill 'anything' they find.

[Old Cruser]

Foxes kill chickens to eat - it's survival, fox hunting isn't survival for the dogs - is it.

Fishing not that's another 'angle' (sorry) 

[Fly]

Foxes will kill all the chickens, but not eat them all 
As I said earlier though, fox hunting is banned now.
I'm not saying it should be 'un-banned'

[Kent]

Foxes will kill all the chickens, but not eat them all 
As I said earlier though, fox hunting is banned now.
I'm not saying it should be 'un-banned'

Maybe a More Humane 'Squad' be set up to Hunt and cull them
is needed, given that Foxes are Hunting in Urban Areas, and
are now a threat to Pets as well as Humans... the Latter of which
is well Documented.
 

[Slacker]

To be chased to exhaustion and ripped to to shreds must be the worst possible way to die.

Don't let hunters tell you it is for effective countryside management, it is just for sadistic pleasure. It is known that some hunts encourage breeding. If they do it for the thrill of the chase they could use muzzled hounds.

The Tory argument to legalise it because it is expensive to police is pathetic. Did they say legalise rioting? No, they fast tracked offenders through courts often with penalties that far exceeded what they had done as a deterrent to others.

[Old Cruser]

What kind of people enjoy this sport anyway????? 

[Pete]

>> What kind of people enjoy this sport anyway?

Sadistic, arrogant morons is my best guess...