Fox hunting season

[Highway Man]

If I see any signs of it in my neck of the woods, I would happily drag the huntsmen off their horses and give them a good thrashing. I hate and detest this terrible blood sport. No call for it in this day and age. They are using trails and pretending to chase after a scent only as a smoke screen to continue their ilegal fun. Barstewards!!!!

 

[fillyboy]

Are you sure you're not a communist?

 

[Highway Man]

Are you sure you're not a communist?

I am noot too sure.

 

[Deluks]

Yes, ban it. Too many reports of actual foxes being hunted, they have shown that they are unable to police themselves.

 

[Koolpc]

Disgusting 'sport'....

Bunch of morons on horses who do not care for nature and are only interested in showing off and killing innocent foxes in a cruel despicable way..

 

[transam]

Bunch of dressed up crazies running riot in the country side

Have them arrested and banged up imo

 

[Munroast]

difficult one for me this, I loathe the whole idea of them and would love to see their nasty pastime outlawed - BUT - fox hunting countryside is some of our very best wildlife countryside, as perverse as it may be, to have an abundance of foxes to hunt the countryside is managed in a way that provides good wildlife habitat, so not only do we get lots of foxes but lots of other wildlife too.

I had would ban shooting instead, that is the opposite of fox hunting, they devastate our wildlife so as to have unnatural levels of game birds.

 

[Odds]

Oscar described the 'sport' as "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

Which coincidentally has a direct correlation to H-man chasing down a vindaloo after a night on the lash.

 

[Brigadier]

Or, on occasion, having it brought to the cell

 

[transam]

Thousands
10s of thousands (?) of fixes are killed on the roads every year

 

[Notch7]

If I see any signs of it in my neck of the woods, I would happily drag the huntsmen off their horses and give them a good thrashing. I hate and detest this terrible blood sport. No call for it in this day and age. They are using trails and pretending to chase after a scent only as a smoke screen to continue their ilegal fun. Barstewards!!!!

When I was young and living in Edenbridge, a local hunt was out in the fields and they came across an old man with his dog.

The hounds ripped his dog into pieces in front of him.

 

[Notch7]

If I see any signs of it in my neck of the woods, I would happily drag the huntsmen off their horses and give them a good thrashing. I hate and detest this terrible blood sport. No call for it in this day and age. They are using trails and pretending to chase after a scent only as a smoke screen to continue their ilegal fun. Barstewards!!!!

There is a video of a huntsman throwing a fox cub into a kennel enclosure full of fox hounds.

You can imagine what happened

 

[diy_fun_uk]

They're discussing it on BBC News phone-in now and those in favour of 'trail' hunting aren't having an easy time of it. Apparently anti hunt groups have been using drones quite extensively and have copious clips of hunt rules being breached and foxes (not just a scent trail) being hunted and killed.

I liken it to things like bull fighting. Archaic and, whether tradition or not, need banning.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It's mostly a class war. You have hooray Henry country folk wanting to preserve their traditions, and towny Labour party types who want to stop it probably mostly because it's what posh/rich people do. I'd like to see a debate about the actual facts.

Does fox hunting serve a purpose? Beneath all the historic nonsense, does it keep fox populations down, and would there be downsides if there were as many as they wanted?

They breed fairly rapidly and don't have predators in the UK. I wonder whether the countryside could be full of half-starved foxes otherwise, as starvation would be the only limit on their population.

Would more foxes mean less birds, especially ducks that breed at ground level, and other animals?

Being ripped to pieces by teeth wouldn't be my preferred method of death, but it would be fatal - eventually. But possibly a slightly missed gunshot wound could be far worse and longer lasting.

 

[fillyboy]

It's mostly a class war. You have hooray Henry country folk wanting to preserve their traditions, and towny Labour party types who want to stop it probably mostly because it's what posh/rich people do. I'd like to see a debate about the actual facts.

Does fox hunting serve a purpose? Beneath all the historic nonsense, does it keep fox populations down, and would there be downsides if there were as many as they wanted?

They breed fairly rapidly and don't have predators in the UK. I wonder whether the countryside could be full of half-starved foxes otherwise, as starvation would be the only limit on their population.

Would more foxes mean less birds, especially ducks that breed at ground level, and other animals?

Being ripped to pieces by teeth wouldn't be my preferred method of death, but it would be fatal - eventually. But possibly a slightly missed gunshot wound could be far worse and longer lasting.

One way or another the numbers would still need to be controlled which is already being carried out by farmers. There's no need for hunting on horseback.