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Hunting this morning - tally ho!

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I don't have the motivation to respond to all the factually incorrect statements
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You clearly put this up originally knowing it would polarise opinion. If you can't be bothered the jog on and let others have their say. You have made your stance well known. However from my perspective it can't be part of any animals existance to be chased for hours by packs of dogs trained to rip the caught prey to bits and by idiots on horseback willing them on to do so.
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It is fine for you and Bob to have your views and yes, they are polar opposites to mine. That said, I think that it is regrettable that you need to say that I and a lot of my friends, most of whom are actually very nice people, are tw*ts and idiots, just because we do something that you don't like. And I am not sure how I can suddenly become unintelligent and uneducated overnight as a result of a response on this but there we go!

But I just do not have the time to spend hours writing a counter argument to inform on and correct some of the misconceptions in this topic. Even if I did have the time or inclination, I don't think it would change a great deal of opinion.

It is not that I can't be bothered, it is just that I have children who need entertaining, chickens to be fed, dogs that need walking, guests to take care of and so on.

This is my last post on this subject. It was interesting to read the posts.....


Snelly.
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Having read this thread i find it quite interesting.....

To me it does not bother me if people hunt or not personally i would not do it but if some like it fair enough, that said i thought it was illeagal to do and therefore people that do it still are criminals?
 
I don't want to go over the same ground thats been covered before here, but just out of interest:

If a pack of wild dogs was chasing a fox, caught it and then ripped it to shreds, would that be ok?

Basically remove the people following, but otherwise the situation is the same.
 
Seems Snelly has gone off with his tail between his legs after reading the depth of contempt that most of us show for Hunting, and the needless slaughter of a lovely creature for 'entertainment', which is all it is.

Anyone who can take part in such an event, is someone I most definitely dont want to know, and whom sums up all that is bad with Human Nature.
 
I once went on a anti hunt demo when I was 16, only because I fancied this lass doing it.

I have not seen in all my years of growing up in the Yorkshire dales of a pack of foxes attacking anything, that said I've not seen a fox attack a family pet.

The hunt should be against chavs, which I would love to watch.
 
Seems Snelly has gone off with his tail between his legs after reading the depth of contempt that most of us show for Hunting, and the needless slaughter of a lovely creature for 'entertainment', which is all it is.
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I wouldn't say he's gone off with his tail between his legs. Just realised that it's an argument that no-one's going to win or change anyone else's opinion.

I could be wrong, but without going over the whole thread again I don't remember Snelly saying whether or not the event ended with the scene that most are so against.

If it's the fox-friendly version I don't see what anyone can get so upset about.
 
If it's the fox-friendly version I don't see what anyone can get so upset about.
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I quite agree. If it was a hunt following a laid down trail I'd have no issue with that whatsoever. However I'm pretty certain it was a traditional version with the intent of catching and killing the fox. I don't think he ever made it clear if they did so I'm guessing not.

That or he was too ashamed to admit that they had let a creature be ripped apart for entertainment. Where next, back to dog fights and bear baiting?
 
He did say earlier on that the hunt was cancelled as the ground was too hard.
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I wasn't going to post again but this got the better of me...

What do you think that means Bob? The ground being too hard?

It means that horses cannot ride due to the frost, nothing more, nothing less....

Not another incorrect conclusion jumped to on this thread? Surely not, you're all experts! :D



And for what it's worth, our hunt (like all others in the UK) follow a pre-laid trail of scent that is put down by a team of runners from a local club.

Definitely my last post... :o
 
He did say earlier on that the hunt was cancelled as the ground was too hard.
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I wasn't going to post again but this got the better of me...

What do you think that means Bob? The ground being too hard?

It means that horses cannot ride due to the frost, nothing more, nothing less....

Not another incorrect conclusion jumped to on this thread? Surely not, you're all experts! :D



And for what it's worth, our hunt (like all others in the UK) follow a pre-laid trail of scent that is put down by a team of runners from a local club.

Definitely my last post... :o
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So what are folk getting so high up on their horses about then??!!

Anyway,I'm off to prepare my gun for tomorrows shoot.....hopefully bag a few brace of Pheasants after I've shot them out of the sky.New Years Eve meal maybees. ;)
 
Every time i read or hear people object so strongly against hunting for pleasure, i feel that all is not quite so bad with the world. I would stress that i have no problem with professional culling, but amateurs is a different matter. I also live in the country, and have problems with foxes, but they are doing what comes naturally to a wild animal. Not for one minute do i think a fox hunt is needed to cure my problem. If i saw an injured fox i would still try and get help for it, rather than think that is one less fox to worry about.I am sure that is a natural reaction for a lot of people. Nothing wrong with a compassionate society in my book.
 
Personally I put 'traditional' fox hunts in the same bracket as cock fighting and dog fights etc.

People used to do it for fun, but a civilised society has decided that cruelty to animals is wrong, and has outlawed them all.

I'm still pretty sure that to a graeter or lesser extent they all go on 'in the country' today.

As long as these people can live with themselves, then good luck to them.

If you go back 30 odd years it was legal to sit in a car without wearing a seat belt. Once the law changed many people thought it was an invasion of personal choice. Now most people do it because it is best for the individual, and for society.

Society now also says that killing animals using cruel methods is unacceptable ( I include any kind of killing that lets people get excitement and enjoyment from the death of any living creature ). It will obviously take a few generations for the inbreds of the modern world to catch up with what is right and wrong.

But then, war is wrong, and we still get involved in that, so maybe our priorities as a nation are still open to question.
 
And for what it's worth, our hunt (like all others in the UK) follow a pre-laid trail of scent that is put down by a team of runners from a local club.
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Never in doubt in my book mate and I think I may have alluded to it earlier. If you had been involved in an illegal hunt, there is no way you would have advertised it on a public forum.

It was fun watching you lay the trail and let the pack come baying for your blood
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I remember there was an item of TV on this and the runner was caught by the hounds. She was nearly licked to death :D :D
 
I remember there was an item of TV on this and the runner was caught by the hounds. She was nearly licked to death :D :D

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Have you been watching your kinky films again Leftie ? :D
 
Morally - perhaps, I certainly couldnt do it, I hate to see anything suffer.
Ecologically - No, they're officially classes as vermin I believe ?
Legally - No - isnt the culling of Grey's encouraged ?
 
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