Interesting video
...although hopelessly one sided
Personally I'm against fox hunting *as a sport* - all those posh twats in red coats being utter pillocks. However, I'm for it as a vermin control measure. I've seen first hand what foxes can do and it ain't pleasant. Hunting with dogs is actually arguably *more* humane than, say, hunting with guns or traps. With guns you may shoot and injure the animal without cleanly killing it, with traps other animals may get caught and needlessly suffer as a result. With *dogs* the animal is directly targetted, and once the dogs catch up with the fox it's almost 100% certain that fox is soon to become an ex-fox.
I realise that's not going to be to everyones tastes, and I completely agree with the vid when it talks about hunting for *sport* being "bad" but I think it misses a
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wideeye slightly pickled, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 10:26,
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So your argument is basically "it's okay to kill foxes, just don't enjoy it or be posh while doing it."
Personally, I don't see how a person's emotional state when killing a fox alters it's moral rightness or wrongness.
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absolutely not what I meant at all
...foxes need *culling* just like ducks, mice, rats, pigeons, BNP members etc. In this respect, yes, I agree with killing them if it's needed (and it often is). What isn't right IMO is killing them for sport like the red coats do. Although, saying that, I grew up in the country and live in the middle of nowhere now, and whenever they used to have these hunt meets they were usually so sozzled that all they could do was fall off their horses.
Culling foxes is just like any other form of land management, if they weren't culled in some way we'd probably be overrun by the smelly little buggers (and they do smell)
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wideeye slightly pickled, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:00,
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