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really sick people getting their thrills from chasing and killing an animal
use should ere um barking at night
When I was a regular poker player I saw loads as I was driving home after midnight.
Let me clarify; I live about 10 minutes outside a city but surrounded by countryside and farm land. Dogs and horns can often be heard and they certainly ain't playing hide and seek with each other.
As it happens, I don't have a problem with it as it helps keeps the numbers down and stops them killing sheep, chickens etc.
If we were that bothered about cruelty to Animals we'd outlaw Halal killings - like to see a political party get that one on the statute books!
Fully agree with roger 
May 10, 2017 -- 6:29AM, gawdalmighty wrote:
Culling foxes is one thing and sometimes needs to be done BUT fox hunting is basically chasing a small vulnerable animal until it has no breath left and then allowing it to be pulled to ribbons, it's unnecessarily cruel. As is hare coursing. I live in the country and have grown up around said 'sports' and can confirm, most people who hunt/enjoy blood sports are vindictive over weight spineless creatures with little or no compassion for others. Just saying...
It's chasing the weakest animal of a pack and it being killed very quickly.
It's Darwinism (Darwinism on speed, I'll grant you) but the strongest and fittest foxes survive. It may look cruel but like I say, the end is quick and clean - more so than trapping or shooting where the fox can be left injured to die in agony for hours.
Now, I suspect your penultimate paragraph is nearer the truth for people who oppose fox hunting, with there being more than a whiff of 'Class War' about their protest....
I quite like foxes though.
The activity takes place in rural areas, with the fox chased by riders on horses, and by a pack of hounds.
What are the hounds fed?
have you ever seen someone in a supermarket buying a few hundred tins of dog food?
About 40% of horses bred never reach a racecourse, due to poor conformation, or lack of ability.
What happens to them? Are they released to return to the wild? Do they go to retirement homes?
Thoroughbreds are an artificial breed that does not exist in nature (except escapees).
They are slaughtered.
What happens to the carcases?
The people hunting you with hounds might be happily getting their kicks, but if you're fit then 97%+ of the time they won't get close to you, it's quite likely one of them humans will come off their horse and look a wally, and they will make sure your habitat is looked after.
Being hunted by dudes with guns, traps or poisons is far more dangerous, and there's every risk your mixed woodland habitat will be turned into monoculture when the owners are bored with it.
Short version - Roger has called it right.
