Fox hunting on the way back?

Why not?

Not bothered about fox hunting but bring back coursing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gui9al6qyg

did it ever go away?

really sick people getting their thrills from chasing and killing an animal

I am suddenly transported back to our friends in Raqqa etc.

A_T is correct, it never went away. We live in a fairly rural area and you can regularly hear the hounds in the distance on a Sunday morning.

Kit-Kat-Dan  - "fairly rural" and "in the distance" but equates the hearing of hounds TO hounds illegally hunting.  Try understanding the law.

oi lives in landan and they are all over the place
use should ere um barking at night

We could have a bit of fox hunting here in the suburbs in south Dublin, five miles form the city centre.
When I was a regular poker player I saw loads as I was driving home after midnight.

Blackbarn, congratulations on taking my words and making them fit your own agenda but my 'understanding of the law' has nothing to do with anything I posted.

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.

I like shooting the bastards..

It was all about class war and nothing to do with cruelty

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!

Is Theresa trying to blow it while I have no problem with blood sports apparently eight out of ten do ! Hardly a vote winner Fully agree with roger

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...

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.

May 10, 2017 -- 12:29PM, 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....

Savage little things with beady eyes and small brains. The less of them about the better if you ask me.

I quite like foxes though.

Now if the opposition had any nous they'd have posters done of Theresa, Boris and Jacob plummy-plums done up in full hunting gear on billboards across all urban areas.

I've pointed out the real cruelty in fox hunting is not what might happen to the fox.
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?

I'm happier for a fox or hare for that matter to be killed by dogs, death is pretty much instantaneous unlike shooting, trapping or poisoning

If you were a fox, you'd vote to repeal the law imv.
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.