Anyone know of any hunts going out on Saturday?

[Dover]

I'm anti hunting.

1. If a farmer has a problem with a fox, they can usually shoot it. A fox is a creature of habit and it will complete it's route at roughly the same time of day. If you doubt this, watch for his urban cousin, the same route at roughly the same time.

2. The hunts do not particuarly look after their animals well. I know many horse owners who are appaled by the way they have seen many hunt animals treated. This also applies to the dogs as well.

3. When I have seen a hunt in action, they have not cared whose land they run across, and for the animals on that land. I have, first hand seen a feild, full of lambs scared whitless due to the "Tally Ho" mentality.

4. Before you ask. Yes I have "Sabbed." It is amazing what a trail of lambs blood will do to the pack of hounds, and as they get the scent walk into the front bar of the hunt pub.

 

[Icy Gull]

Why so picky all of a sudden,..... most of you 'social and political' commentators are quite happy to pass judgement on ay number of issues you know nothing about, namely the situation in Iraq.... where you all make so-called well informed anti-US judgements without knowing what life was actually like for those poor souls under Saddam, and even what life is like for them now, better or worse..........

Nope, I sat on the fence on that one as well. London Irish and Gareth Glover managed to make that discussion too black or white for it to be worth venturing any other opinion

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

most of you 'social and political' commentators are quite happy to pass judgement on ay number of issues you know nothing about,

... not wishing to state the obvious - but you seem to be in danger of doing what you are accusing others of.

 

[lincs seagull]

Can't tell whether this is sarcastic or not..

not sarcasm i am impressed buy what you have said most people jump on the fox hunting band wagon with out knowing the full facts

 

[3gulls]

Supposedly the number of attacks on hunt sabatouers has risen since the ban was announced.

Great - i hope the scum get a good kicking!

 

[lincs seagull]

2. The hunts do not particuarly look after their animals well. I know many horse owners who are appaled by the way they have seen many hunt animals treated. This also applies to the dogs as well.

3. When I have seen a hunt in action, they have not cared whose land they run across, and for the animals on that land. I have, first hand seen a feild, full of lambs scared whitless due to the "Tally Ho" mentality.

Not sure i agree with you here unless you know a very poor hunt all horses in a hunt i have seen are the best condition most are owned by the riders the hounds are always tip top but a bit thick they rarely and i mean rarely catch the fox.

Most hunts round me the farmers are all pro and let the hunt go on there land and they do know where to go and not go so not destroying crops in the process the hunts have respect for the land.

Not saying that the hunts you witness are not true but i have never seen anything to come close to these points

 

[3gulls]

I'm anti hunting.
2. The hunts do not particuarly look after their animals well. I know many horse owners who are appaled by the way they have seen many hunt animals treated. This also applies to the dogs as well.

3. When I have seen a hunt in action, they have not cared whose land they run across, and for the animals on that land. I have, first hand seen a feild, full of lambs scared whitless due to the "Tally Ho" mentality.

4. Before you ask. Yes I have "Sabbed." It is amazing what a trail of lambs blood will do to the pack of hounds, and as they get the scent walk into the front bar of the hunt pub.

Well Ben,

With twisted views like that, no wonder you were one of the swampies! I'm sure the pikies that you know treat their cobs very badly, what pony would want to be on a grass verge in Kent teathered by a chain all day?

The Horses and hounds are well tended and in fine health. MOST people involved in hunts are simply rural folk, who enjoy the riding, and spend significant amounts of their, often low, income on their horses.

 

[lost in london]

My family shall be supporting a hunt on Friday - the day the "law" comes into force.

Personally I dont give a f**k about a fox being ripped to pieces by a pack of dogs. The law is spiteful, illogical and vindictive and therefore deserves to be ignored. As has been said many times before, it has more to do with social pejudice than substance. The real problem though is that it interferes with an established practice that harms no-one and is another example of how our liberties are denied us under the pretense of social betterment.

So, I guess that I don't agree with quite a few on here.

You agree with me.

 

[perseus]

I'm anti hunting.

1. If a farmer has a problem with a fox, they can usually shoot it. A fox is a creature of habit and it will complete it's route at roughly the same time of day. If you doubt this, watch for his urban cousin, the same route at roughly the same time.

2. The hunts do not particuarly look after their animals well. I know many horse owners who are appaled by the way they have seen many hunt animals treated. This also applies to the dogs as well.

3. When I have seen a hunt in action, they have not cared whose land they run across, and for the animals on that land. I have, first hand seen a feild, full of lambs scared whitless due to the "Tally Ho" mentality.

4. Before you ask. Yes I have "Sabbed." It is amazing what a trail of lambs blood will do to the pack of hounds, and as they get the scent walk into the front bar of the hunt pub.

The law was a stupid idea. Most of the these nuisances could have been dealt with by other laws, or made to do so, cruelty to captive animals, aggravated trespass, etc. But if the local Magistrate is a friend of the hunters, nothing would get done?

Foxes can be persuaded to eat chocolate, so it is easy to drug your neighbourly fox.

I would prefer to see hares that dogs chasing them all over the place, in on private land, certainly on open access countryside land.