Why shouldn't we hunt foxes and other annoying animals?
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We should hunt foxes to control them, they are a pest in the country. Most of the people who object think nothing of eating battery hen and farmed meat, where the cruelty is far greater but hidden from view. I respect vegetarians who do not eat meat and object to hunting, but the rest of people are complete hippocrites.
I find you quite annoying. I'll be round your house in a minute with a pack of dogs and a shotgun. Best get your trainers on, love.
Just because you think they are annoying doesnt mean that you can have them ripped apart by hounds - its inhumane.
BECAUSE IT IS AN ACT OF CRUELTY HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE HUNTED!
LEAVE THE WILDLIFE ALONE SOON THEY WILL BECOME EXTINCT AND THEN WE WILL BE PROTECTING THEM SO JUST LEAVE ALL ANIMALS ALONE IT IS CRUEL AND UNNECESSARY!
We should be allowed to do whatever we want, there is a minority of do gooders that interfere with the British traditions and they think they know best. Well they don’t! they want what they think is a worthy cause to be made illegal but what about the normal people we didn’t get a say we never do its government politics. There all bonkers.
I am pro fox hunting. While people want to hunt foxes, they want foxes to hunt right? Hunters want to hunt foxes in their natural environment in lovely country side where the Freddies are florishing. Hunters are as keen to keep the fox population high as the anti hunting lot -or they wouldn't be able to hunt! Also, no one is gonna stop people running them over in cars which kills way more everyday than hunting did in months! AND - animals get ripped to shreds horribly everyday - lions don't give antelopes an Anaesthetic before they rip their throats out
No, there need to b a balance in nature. Each insect, animal, no matter how annoying and ugly have a job to do.
Because soon there would be nothing to hunt.
Man is a virus that consumes absolutely.
It's quite simple. There is nothing wrong wtih killing foxes to prevent them killing chickens, but there is something wrong in the way they are hunted. It is not a humane way to do it, and it brings unnecessary suffering. Using a rifle would be much cleaner, quicker, and save the fox the trauma of the hunt.
Dear Jack R(Rusell I presume!)
You must follow your doggy instincts and chase whatever you like,just be careful in case when you catch it,it eats you!
You dog!
M
Again it all comes down to profit - the farmer is too mean fisted to erect a decent fence capable of keeping foxes out.
The hunting of foxes in particular is barbaric - with "hooray Henrie's" talking all airs and graces and drinking pims, trying to act the lord of the manor.
See how they like it - being chased for miles by a pack of dogs, only to be caught and ripped apart - not very humane
My personal opinion is that it is cruel. I am a city person and always have been so i don't pretend to understand the way the countryside works but speaking as a human being it just seems so cruel to send another animal out to hunt an animal for the enjoyment of humans. If these animals need to be kept under control then surely there is a more humane way to do this. I do not see how anyone can enjoy seeing an animal ripped apart by another then spread their blood all over themselves. i call it barbaric and I certainly would not allow one of my children to get involved. It screams of the dark ages and we are supposed to be evolving, not taking steps backwards.
we shouldn't be they are a livin thig to u wouldn't like if some1 came n shot u
because they can be our friends.
Why is it so hard to let things just live? If you hunt foxes and they become extinct, rodents and other creatures which are the diet of foxes will overpopulate and harm the ecological balance, which will in turn affect people. These will cause diseases and potentially cause death. A certain region from where I traveled to exterminated a lot of snakes and now rodents have exploded in their area, and believe me its' like the Bubonic Plague or Black Death all over again. We really need to think before we act.
Jack R, I don't know which country you are from but I will give you my personal take on the subject.
I am in Australia where foxes were introduced (as were the rabbits) to give the gentry a bit of sport. Since then both animals have flourished and classed as vermin. Various plans to control/eradicate then have failed.
Foxes love lambing time, they will get into a flock of sheep and attack the lambs, just eating the tongues. Leaving the lambs to die a slow horrible death.
Foxes also kill anything else they can get to - chickens, native animals, mice yes and rabbits (but they like the little lambs better and the native animals)
Yes the fox is hunted with hounds and on horseback, but more often than not the fox is humanely shot when cornered by the hounds.
So, eventually I get to my answer. I cant see any reason why we shouldn't hunt foxes and rabbits. But I am in Australia.
What is your problem with Foxes?, and they are hardly annoying. the only thing annoying me is you! So why can't we hunt you?
Just because some people find them annoying doesn't mean they have a right to kill them.
A few years ago in work a colleague and I were in the store room and we found a cat. My work colleague was going to stab the cat with a pitchfork but he was stopped in time. It turned out that the cat was a pet of someone else that worked with us.
Anyway, my point is just because he thought cats were annoying didn't give him any right to kill the cat we found.
OK - seems we have a bit of a problem. Here in the UK, we are no longer allowed to hunt foxes because the bleeding heart liberal do-gooders, who have never, ever lived in the country and only know about rural life from what they see on the telly and what other, similar people tell them.
Foxes have always been, and will always be, a perrenial pain in the ar$e for farmers and other land-owners/livestock rearers (eg Game woods etc) as they are a troublesome predator that needs to be controlled - this does not imply that they should be hunted to extiction.
This is just yet another example of a badly thought out and even more badly executed government reation to the whining animal rights twats who have no idea what they are on about.
If these people had ever been on a fox hunt, and experienced the primeval thrill of the hunt, and better still, realised that the hunts hardly ever catch a damn thing, then fine, we could have a proper debate, but oh no, the government are to quick to pander to the wants opf the city-dwelling troglodytes, because they are the people who will vote them in for the next election, not us, the country bumpkins.
As a countryman myself, I was angered about how the government handled it, and get very frustrated with "townies" who look down on our way of life. Now that we are not allowed to follow a centuries-old tradition, if I discover a fox that is persistently troubling livestock, or generally causing a nuisance, it gets "humanely controlled" with a rifle. If it's not causing problems, or is a vixen with cubs, or indeed is a cub itself, I leave it alone. It's a matter of being sensible and understanding your environment.
nothing wrong with controling the population of foxes. but would you like to be chased and riped apart by dogs.. and all in the name of entertainment
i think that foxes are cute. i enjoy the sport of foxhunting but i hte the actual killing of the animals. good thing that hunter paces are around!
Are foxes really that annoying? I always thought they were kinda cool.
I object to fox hunting as a sport because it's unnecessary. OK,so if they're stealing the farmer's chickens he has to do something - fair enough, whip out a gun and shoot it if you must. But they're not exactly a plague on the country. They're a part of our natural history and pretty interesting if you read up on them. So there's no practical reason for hunting and killing them. Even if it were necessary to hunt them, a quick blast with a shotgun would do the trick - no need to use packs of dogs to exhaust, terrify and torture them in the manner we do. If we killed animals like that in our abbatoirs there'd be uproar.
Oh, yes - but it's part of our tradition and heritage. Well, so was cockfighting and bear baiting, but we grew out of it.
I agree that some countries have "traditions" that include blood sports such as rooster fighting in Latin America, bullfighting in Spain, however I find ANY kind of killing of animals for sport completely wrong, but I've realized that the most dangerous animal in the world is humans. We are the ONLY species that kills both animals and each other for sport.
er - obviously because its cruel.
Whilst I know foxes etc can kill and eat farm animals etc it is totally wrong to hunt these animals over long periods of time - particularly on horse hunts etc.
If these animals must be killed - then it should be an immediate death such as a skilled shooter.
Prolonging the animals anxiety and pain by chasing it for miles be it on foot with dogs or on horseback is absolutely terrifying for the animal and in my opinion one of the highest levels of cruelty.
you annoying lets hunt you that would be much more fun and i bet you alot less attractive, and you also have less purpose bye bye
we should hunt foxes theres no 2 way about it its not cruel i live in the UK and have hunted for years foxes destroy live stock even down to kiddies rabbits if you were to shoot a fox as pest control you have no guarantees that you would hit the fox first time or if you did it might not kill it outright and it would have to suffer an even greater painful death then theres snaring traps once again the fox dies an agonizing death it is not a humane way to kill a fox the is with hounds sounds cruel but its the most humane way its quick and the fox does not suffer
By the same token, why should I not belt up the side of the head with the garden spade , annoying little twits who ask daft questions, are as thick as pig sh1t and selfish to boot. Hands up those who like the sound of my idea better that the OP's idea.
Personally as a poultry breeding country woman, I suppose I SHOULD want to eradicate foxes but I don't. If livestock get killed by a fox, it is the farmer's fault for not protecting his stock. I get hopping mad when pro hunters say that it is a case of townies wanting it outlawed and country folk wanting to hunt. Well I have never hunted in my life and in my youth was an avid hunt protestor/sabateur. I have never lived in a town in my life. I don't have a problem with culling surplus cockerels bred here since there aren't enough good homes for all the cockerels bred.They are killed instantly and are pain and fear free. I draw the line at killing any animal by means of a prolonged chase, to the point of exhaustion and terror and then being torn apart alive by a pack of hounds. If I chased my cockerels around or set my dogs to do it for an hour, before allowing them to kill it, I would rightly be prosecuted and possibly banned from keeping any animal again. Why is fox hunting any different. Hunting with hounds being banned was long overdue IMO. It is barbaric and outdated and such cruelty has no place in the 21st century. Dog fighting, badger baiting, **** fighting, bull and bear baiting were all outlawed a long time ago. How is it that hunting with hounds was only just outlawed? There has been enough evidence to prove that hunts, actually bred foxes to hunt and that those involved in hunting often were also involved in other animal cruelty. It was rightly banned and I'm glad to see that there have been prosecutions for those arrrogant enough to think that they are above the law.
Aquila, I don't believe you have ever seen a hunt. You are spouting pro hunting propoganda. Why on earth would a fox wait for the hounds to catch up and kill him? If he has stopped it is because he is too exhausted to go and wants to rest. That a fox isn't panting after being chased for half an hour is plain daft dear. They aren't super animals. If they run hard they will pant.
As for sabateurs slashing horses and dogs, once again this is propoganda. All sab's are total animal lovers, many are vegans. No way would they inflict pain on a horse or a hound. You have been listening to too many pro hunters. Did you also watch a fox which had gone to ground, being dug out of it's den and flung alive to the waiting hounds? Did you want 3 year old hounds being shot and fed back to the other hounds because they were too slow or weren't interested in hunting? Did you ever see very young fox cubs being chased during the cubbing season. Baby foxes, no more than puppies, being chased and killed? I could go on and on about the terrible cruelty involved in all aspects of hunting with hounds. It isn't just foxes, it is deer too and hares and rabbits. Those who say it isn't cruel must either be brainwashed or extremely stupid.
Because its cruel & sick.
How ridiculous that the planets top predator & most evolved,intelligent species (ie,''man'') gets so excited about killing a small,harmless animal for sport!
Pick on someone your own size.
You are so ignorant you probably won't even bother to read what I have put, but I'm still going to type it anyway. If I were to say to anyone on the forum, give me the definition of murder, the answer would be, Murder is the taking of a life, before it should end.
Therefore meat is murder, and so is the hunting and killing of animals. Meat is an unneccessary paret of the diet, and is responsible for heart problems and high percentage of death. Humans are humans and cannot digest animal fats, Animal are animals and can. This is nature for these animals to kill for food, not for the human race though.
As for Carla s, Andy M Thompson, teatotaller2810, BushRaider69 and sugar sweet, who obviously is anything but sugary sweet, you are all a bunch of complete loons.
Causing unnecessary harm to animals is pathetic, and if mudering humans was legal too, you would probably go round murdering them as well. There is only three types of hope for you people. No hope, bob hope and land of hope and glory. None of which are that great.
By the way, Christina U and fenlandfowl, your answers were good, well done guys. And as for you who breeds chickens, farmers do deserve for their livestock to be killed if they cannot be bothered to put proper fences round their chickens.
Oh also, Frozen Camel, nice answer until the bit about the abbatoirs. They do treat animals like that there. No two ways about it, I'm afraid. Got the video footage practically in my palm. Sorry!
Hunting animals for food is one thing, but hunting them because they are annoying wouldn't be acceptable- If it were, I'd be the first to jump on the band wagon, and my target would be certain members of the human race. Most humans annoy me, nasty two legged creatures, and they stink. They can't even lick their own bottoms for crying out loud!
Reynard the fox
Because they are one of Gods creatures and deserve to live the same as we do.We kill animals ect to live why shouldn't they.
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