Bring back fox hunting...

[HampshireSeagulls]

LETS NOT.

Got a real reason, or just another class warrior who doesn't like it it because you think that "toffs" do it?

If you are basing your opinion on hunting on horseback, then I'll agree with you based on the redundancy of the method. However, I will still maintain that the most effective way of killing countryside pests is poisoning, trapping or shooting. Not pretty, but a pretty class-free way of killing.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

Fox hunting on horse back. It is a cruel, painfull, scary death for the foxs.period.

I have been against it for years had have close friends that have campaigned against it heavly.

I also agree that countryside pests do need to be controled, but in a less horific manor.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Blimey, you lot are dangerous.

Looking forward to the NSC sponsered (sp)Basil Brush Show.

 

[London Calling]

Fox hunting on horse back. It is a cruel, painfull, scary death for the foxs.period.

I have been against it for years had have close friends that have campaigned against it heavly.

I also agree that countryside pests do need to be controled, but in a less horific manor.

Why?

What is the definition of a pest?

When is a pest not a pest?

Should the controlling of "pests" be for economic, social or just plain sport?

LC

 

[Dave the OAP]

Whats are weapons of choice then? Im going to go for the good old fashioned bow and arrow as i belive it may be hard to catch up with a fox and club it to death. Also that Elm Grove can really take it out of you.

ak-47 and a pea shooter.

 

[Dave the OAP]

funny you should say that though....mrs DTG and I both remarked how many are dead at the side of the roads these days.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

1 troublesome or annoying person or thing,2 destructive animal,esp,one which attadks food sources,i.e rats,foxs,.....

Never for sport.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Less than 5% of the foxes chased are ever even caught. Riding the hounds after foxes is the most ineffective way of pest control. It should, however, have been retained as a spectacle, but under drag or human guidelines instead.

Personally, we used to use to free running snares - hold them overnight, shoot them in the mornings. That is, the ones who didn't chew their legs off to get away, or get attacked and killed by other foxes. It would be better to poison them, but that's illegal now as well, as are spring traps, or hole filling. They have been overprotected because people are more focused on the "hoorays" chasing them on horseback than the problems of weil's disease (yep, not just rats), toxacariosis, mange, etc. And that's ignoring the naturally predatory nature of foxes to take and kill animals. We should be the natural predator of the fox, but that has been taken away through ill-informed legislation.

 

[Grendel]

Less than 5% of the foxes chased are ever even caught. Riding the hounds after foxes is the most ineffective way of pest control.

Case in point - the local hunt round here caught 3 foxes last year. A local famer estimates that he shot upwards of 100 in the same period.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's the sort of drivel the Argus normally prints.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

It's the sort of drivel the Argus normally prints.

What is? Which strand do you consider worthy of the Arsegas? And is that selected drivel (ie bits you don't agree with) when compared to the Argus trying their best to stop LDC blocking Falmer?