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That should be "an outnumbered, terrified and dead animal to pieces"......

The object of the exercise when hunting is to cull foxes; they are vermin & their numbers need to be controlled as they wreak havoc with their killing sprees. I'm not sure whether you're questioning hunting or the killing of foxes altogether, Ovverbruv - believe me, the fox population does need controlling as they have no natural predator in the wild.

I'm not really sure why the anti-hunting set are claiming a victory in this instance - hunting will, and is, carrying on nearly as normal with the only difference being that the fox is flushed out by a pair of hounds, shot, then thrown to the hounds. If it is the kill & the supposed cruelty of the fox being "torn to pieces" then this is happening as it always has done - the dead fox is still being thrown to the hounds. Also, in shooting the fox rather than the hounds breaking the animal's neck it is far from certain that the kill will be a clean one, in fact it was well documented on 19th February that two out of three foxes that were killed by meets with a Sky News reporter in attendance had to be shot twice as the first shots only wounded the animals. If it is the culling of the fox in general then again, foxes are still being, & will continue to be, killed.

<blockquote data-quote="Shadow Leader" data-source="post: 2037210" data-attributes="member: 65043">That should be &quot;an outnumbered, terrified and dead animal to pieces&quot;......The object of the exercise when hunting is to cull foxes; they are vermin &amp; their numbers need to be controlled as they wreak havoc with their killing sprees.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure whether you&#039;re questioning hunting or the killing of foxes altogether, Ovverbruv - believe me, the fox population does need controlling as they have no natural predator in the wild.I&#039;m not really sure why the anti-hunting set are claiming a victory in this instance - hunting will, and is, carrying on nearly as normal with the only difference being that the fox is flushed out by a pair of hounds, shot, then thrown to the hounds.&nbsp; If it is the kill &amp; the supposed cruelty of the fox being &quot;torn to pieces&quot; then this is happening as it always has done - the dead fox is still being thrown to the hounds.&nbsp; Also, in shooting the fox rather than the hounds breaking the animal&#039;s neck it is far from certain that the kill will be a clean one, in fact it was well documented on 19th February that two out of three foxes that were killed by meets with a Sky News reporter in attendance had to be shot twice as the first shots only wounded the animals.&nbsp; If it is the culling of the fox in general then again, foxes are still being, &amp; will continue to be, killed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shadow Leader, post: 2037210, member: 65043"] That should be "an outnumbered, terrified [b]and dead[/b] animal to pieces"...... The object of the exercise when hunting is to cull foxes; they are vermin & their numbers need to be controlled as they wreak havoc with their killing sprees. I'm not sure whether you're questioning hunting or the killing of foxes altogether, Ovverbruv - believe me, the fox population does need controlling as they have no natural predator in the wild. I'm not really sure why the anti-hunting set are claiming a victory in this instance - hunting will, and is, carrying on nearly as normal with the only difference being that the fox is flushed out by a pair of hounds, shot, then thrown to the hounds. If it is the kill & the supposed cruelty of the fox being "torn to pieces" then this is happening as it always has done - the dead fox is still being thrown to the hounds. Also, in shooting the fox rather than the hounds breaking the animal's neck it is far from certain that the kill will be a clean one, in fact it was well documented on 19th February that two out of three foxes that were killed by meets with a Sky News reporter in attendance had to be shot twice as the first shots only wounded the animals. If it is the culling of the fox in general then again, foxes are still being, & will continue to be, killed. [/QUOTE]

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