Hunting this morning - tally ho!

[Snelly]

Chomping at the bit to reply but keeping my thoughts well and truly to myself this time.

Snap in more ways than one.

Can't believe you get your kids involved - a great advert for the future

What a fool I've been! Thanks so much for the tip. We'll change our entire outlook on life now and start the re-education process for the poor little mites right now!


Child rearing tips aside, we didn't go hunting - ground was too hard in the end.

I did think this might be quite a controversial post but interesting to see that there is a balance of pro and anti statements in the responses. Just like life outside an internet forum I suppose...


Snelly.

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Some people like going fishing same sort of thing really. If you enjoy it then i dont see why you shouldnt go and do it... Better than sitting in the house waiting on things to happen

 

[JustOne]

Let's turn this around, how would you feel if you saw a pack of foxes rip your dog to pieces whilst it was still alive in front of your kid's?

I thought it was dogs that generally attack kids and rip their faces off isn't it?

Not sure where foxes come into it

I have an opinion on fox hunting so i might aswell share... if necessary (because the outbreak of foxes is really that severe and out of control) then it should be done with a GUN.

Can't help but find it funny when someone gets hurt hunting foxes

 

[Andy]

Let's turn this around, how would you feel if you saw a pack of foxes rip your dog to pieces whilst it was still alive in front of your kid's?

I thought it was dogs that generally attack kids and rip their faces off isn't it?

Not sure where foxes come into it

I have an opinion on fox hunting so i might aswell share... if necessary (because the outbreak of foxes is really that severe and out of control) then it should be done with a GUN.

Can't help but find it funny when someone gets hurt hunting foxes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10251349

Andy

 

[Lump]

I'm pro fox hunting. But only where those fox's being hunted are due to be kulled via shooting.

I'm a country boy. My father owns and rides horse's and has partaken in many hunts over the years. In the many dozens of hunts he's been on over many a years only 3 fox's have been killed

 

[0]

Let's turn this around, how would you feel if you saw a pack of foxes rip your dog to pieces whilst it was still alive in front of your kid's?

I thought it was dogs that generally attack kids and rip their faces off isn't it?

Not sure where foxes come into it

I have an opinion on fox hunting so i might aswell share... if necessary (because the outbreak of foxes is really that severe and out of control) then it should be done with a GUN.

Can't help but find it funny when someone gets hurt hunting foxes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10251349

Andy

Try these then - Want me to go on ?

Dogs about 800 - Foxes about 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12081027

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-12083688

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12073769

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-12066351

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11902348

 

[Andy]

Go on all you like, I dont give 2 hoots.

I posted a link with regard to foxes attacking children to highlight it happens.

Andy

 

[USER1999]

Is hooning round the countryside on a horse the most efficient method of hunting foxes? Probably not.

Is it the most fun you can have on a horse? Probably yes.

Can't get that excited about it really. Personally, I'd ban fishing too. Torturing fish seems pretty poor to me. Apparently Britains most popular 'sport'. Doesn't sound like sport to me.

Don't like cruelty to animals. Not good.

If something needs culling, shoot it. Put out some bait, then a clean kill. And do it professionally, don't hire it out to some rich *** who gets his rocks off on it to pull the trigger.

 

[surefire]

How terrible, it would be much nicer if we let the foxes rip poor innocent rabbits apart, and then overpopulate and slowly and painfully starve to death!

Let's turn this around, how would you feel if you saw a pack of foxes rip your dog to pieces whilst it was still alive in front of your kid's? simple question, let's not have a convoluted answer.

I'd panic, a lot, mainly because this morning I didn't have a dog or kids, so I might be in a lot of trouble!

I do have a cat though, sometimes he catches a bird or a mouse, and then mauls it around playing with it for a bit, then he gets bored. I try not to lose too much sleep over this also.

 

[USER1999]

My cat also used to do this.

I sent him a strongly worded memo, and now he doesn't.

 

[bigslice]

again it all depends where you live. if i lived out in the deepest of the countryside and worked the land. then i too would probably take part in various activities. may it be baking cakes for the village fete. or shooting rabbits, crows or culling deer. but i dont live there, but i am not offended by anyone who does.
now dont get me started on the Japanese Whaling Factory ships. must dash as there may be some progress in my earlier post, wheres ma balacava

 

[Macster]

Interesting reading this, and some very strange insinuations too.

IF Foxes are increasing in numbers, and judging by the frequency that I see them these days, then it cant be down to the banning of Hunting, as any 'Hunters' would argue that 'they hardly ever catch one anyway'.

Its more likely down to the fact that we have so many Rabbits now, meaning that the foxes food source is plentiful, hence the increase.

The justification of hunting Foxes on the basis that they are a dangerous animal is quite frankly THE most ludicrous suggestion I have heard, and the ONE incident recently of the child being attacked is hardly a balanced basis for the national culling of Foxes ?

If so, then due to the number of Dogs that have attacked people, let alone children, then a more balanced argument would be to outlaw all dogs ?
Ridiculous.

If culling of any creature is neccessary, and I know it sometimes is for good reasons, then it should be done professionally and humanely, and not by chasing a creature miles across country until exhausted, where it is ripped to shreds by hounds, in front of people cheering the result, which to me, could amount to the very worst aspects of human nature I can possibly think of.

Very sad if you're one of those people.

 

[richart]

Interesting reading this, and some very strange insinuations too.

IF Foxes are increasing in numbers, and judging by the frequency that I see them these days, then it cant be down to the banning of Hunting, as any 'Hunters' would argue that 'they hardly ever catch one anyway'.

Its more likely down to the fact that we have so many Rabbits now, meaning that the foxes food source is plentiful, hence the increase.

The justification of hunting Foxes on the basis that they are a dangerous animal is quite frankly THE most ludicrous suggestion I have heard, and the ONE incident recently of the child being attacked is hardly a balanced basis for the national culling of Foxes ?

If so, then due to the number of Dogs that have attacked people, let alone children, then a more balanced argument would be to outlaw all dogs ?
Ridiculous.

If culling of any creature is neccessary, and I know it sometimes is for good reasons, then it should be done professionally and humanely, and not by chasing a creature miles across country until exhausted, where it is ripped to shreds by hounds, in front of people cheering the result, which to me, could amount to the very worst aspects of human nature I can possibly think of.

Very sad if you're one of those people.

Well said that man.

 

[Redwood]

Interesting reading this, and some very strange insinuations too.

IF Foxes are increasing in numbers, and judging by the frequency that I see them these days, then it cant be down to the banning of Hunting, as any 'Hunters' would argue that 'they hardly ever catch one anyway'.

Its more likely down to the fact that we have so many Rabbits now, meaning that the foxes food source is plentiful, hence the increase.

The justification of hunting Foxes on the basis that they are a dangerous animal is quite frankly THE most ludicrous suggestion I have heard, and the ONE incident recently of the child being attacked is hardly a balanced basis for the national culling of Foxes ?

If so, then due to the number of Dogs that have attacked people, let alone children, then a more balanced argument would be to outlaw all dogs ?
Ridiculous.

If culling of any creature is neccessary, and I know it sometimes is for good reasons, then it should be done professionally and humanely, and not by chasing a creature miles across country until exhausted, where it is ripped to shreds by hounds, in front of people cheering the result, which to me, could amount to the very worst aspects of human nature I can possibly think of.

Very sad if you're one of those people.

^^^^^^^^^^

what he said....

 

[Screwback]

Interesting reading this, and some very strange insinuations too.

IF Foxes are increasing in numbers, and judging by the frequency that I see them these days, then it cant be down to the banning of Hunting, as any 'Hunters' would argue that 'they hardly ever catch one anyway'.

Its more likely down to the fact that we have so many Rabbits now, meaning that the foxes food source is plentiful, hence the increase.

The justification of hunting Foxes on the basis that they are a dangerous animal is quite frankly THE most ludicrous suggestion I have heard, and the ONE incident recently of the child being attacked is hardly a balanced basis for the national culling of Foxes ?

If so, then due to the number of Dogs that have attacked people, let alone children, then a more balanced argument would be to outlaw all dogs ?
Ridiculous.

If culling of any creature is neccessary, and I know it sometimes is for good reasons, then it should be done professionally and humanely, and not by chasing a creature miles across country until exhausted, where it is ripped to shreds by hounds, in front of people cheering the result, which to me, could amount to the very worst aspects of human nature I can possibly think of.

Very sad if you're one of those people.

Very, very well said....

 

[beggsy]

i do agree with keeping the fox population under control but that is what a gun capable of causing no pain is for not seeing a frightened animal ripped to bits by dogs what would you rather happen to you torture then slowly die or bullet in head straight dead

 

[chrisd]

It's a good thing that most of the guys here who advocate the use of a gun to keep the fox population down don't actually have to do it themselves, cos the stories I've read this year on the forum about golf shots that go amiss .... heaven knows, they might even shoot a fox hunter! Now that would be a shame!



Chris

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Being a townie I've never really had a view either way. Apathy would rule if I could be bothered

 

[bigslice]

It's a good thing that most of the guys here who advocate the use of a gun to keep the fox population down don't actually have to do it themselves, cos the stories I've read this year on the forum about golf shots that go amiss .... heaven knows, they might even shoot a fox hunter! Now that would be a shame!



Chris

i could shoot one from 280 yards away

 

[chrisd]

i could shoot one from 280 yards away

'ear we go again...... don't you mean 225 yards ??



Chris