Fox-Hunting

[minestrone]

I think the OP meant that the legislation was nothing to do with animal welfare, but a petty, mean-spirited, vindictive, spiteful attack on perceived class enemies

The amount of time and effort spent getting the legislation through was massive, I remember reading the figures at the time, it was the mark of a goverment who had no idea of where it's prioritys lay and yes, it did stink of getting one over the tofs. The police have given up policing the hunts as the law is simply unworkable, there will be tons of hunts going on where the dogs get the fox. Labour's dangerous dogs act.

[Bagpuss]

I never have been, or would want to go to, a hunt.
But I like the idea that the Tories will repeal/amend the law to allow the hunts to get back out there doing their stuff

I really hate the class warriors like Brown and Harman et al.

Yeah and they should legalise Badger baiting. I know a lot of countryside folk who think the hunt is a menace.

[singhr]

What bugs me more is the townies who leave out food for them in suburban areas as they think they are sooo cute and then wonder why the next doors neighbours rubbish is all over their front lawn the next morning.

the same ones who will happily eat battery hens, crated veal and turkeys stuffed full of chemicals

[EternalOptimist]

Indeed.

And once the marksman has disposed of the family of foxes that live along the back lane, maybe he/she can dispose of the lunatic woman who feeds the fliping things.

Which does make one wonder why said foxes need to attempt to dig up that dead cat that I buried earlier in the year.

Must be really ripe by now.

Have you tried 'securing the perimeter' yet ??

[swamp]

99% of anti-fox hunt protesters are simply class warriors.

99% of fox hunters are only in it for the bloodsport. They are not in it for:
-- "improving the health of the fox population by removing the weak ones"
-- getting rid of urban foxes.

Neither side of the fox hunting debate are honest about their intentions IMO.

[VectraMan]

99% of anti-fox hunt protesters are simply class warriors.

All the working class blood sports (cock fighting, dog fighting, etc.) were outlawed some time ago. The injustice is not the upper classes being singled out on this issue now, the injustice is that the same rules weren't applied fairly to all people to start with.

[Zippy]

Which does make one wonder why said foxes need to attempt to dig up that dead cat that I buried earlier in the year.

Must be really ripe by now.

They cache their food as a hedge against hard times. I believe that is why they kill so much when they get in to a hen house - they plan to store the excess.

[wobbegong]

When you see what a fox will do if it gets in a hen house you will not have any qualms about setting the dogs on them.

If you see what a fox can do to a sheep when it's giving birth ( my family had a sheep farm), and what it does to the newborn, it's not nice.

I haven't seen the aftermath of a fox attack but I'm sure you're right. However, we as supposed intelligent, rational creatures shouldn't be seeking to do the same back to them. Foxes are wild animals and behave as such, we are meant to be civilised and compasionate.

[swamp]

I haven't seen the aftermath of a fox attack but I'm sure you're right. However, we as supposed intelligent, rational creatures shouldn't be seeking to do the same back to them. Foxes are wild animals and behave as such, we are meant to be civilised and compasionate.

A fox will kill every animal in an enclosure (if it can) and eat just one of them.

[minestrone]

If we were not here dogs would still be chasing them round ripping them to shreds, we are just managing that now which is much closer to nature than a total ban.

Anyway, I used to be a butcher and still find it odd that people are willing to eat battery chickens and their eggs by the dozen but go fruit loop when a dog kills a fox. It is a fashionable cause because it is getting one over the toffs. Labour used it to gain votes in the last election because they knew it is such an emotive subject.