Fox Hunting

[Finnegan]

Don't have an issue with hunting as long as it's done for resource gathering as well as sport. Eat what you kill, skin what you kill, wear what you kill, just don't waste it.

Fox hunting is just a shit blood sport where a pack of domestic dogs rip apart a hugely outnumbered wild dog and a few privileged toffs on horses look on. Pointless and old fashioned.

Leave it banned. Plenty of other things a community of horse breeders and dog owners can do for a living as well so I don't buy in to that damaging local livelihoods shit either.

[Renart]

It's a thoroughly reprehensible thing to do, an absurdly undue level of suffering for the purpose of enjoyment, not to mention the general cuntish behaviour of the hunt, blocking up driveways, trampling hedges, generally making life more difficult for local farmers and countryside dwellers who want nowt to do with it.

 

When I first read this I thought you meant going to watch Leicester City over the past few months...

[Nick]

I looked like a cross between John McCririck and Michael Portillo.

 

You could so easily have been shot en route.

 

I can see Beadle now doing the re-enactment, JFK style for the TV show 'You've Been Shot'

 

"Matt, abusing champagne and arguing with his f-list celebrity mates about which variety should be consumed whilst travelling in an open topped limousine, has no idea about Swan Lesta waiting to (humanely) shoot him from the 6th floor of the book depository"

 

Remember Matt's homosexual tailor is 'in on the joke'

 

(Shameless Jack Dee plagiarism, I know.)

[purpleronnie]

I wore a Green Tweed Jacket, Orange trousers, Blue shirt, Brown Shoes and a Red Hat a couple of years back.

 

I looked like a cross between John McCririck and Michael Portillo.

Despite a few odd looks I thought you looked great.

 

[yorkie1999]

There's loads of em wandering round the streets at night in hinckley, whether that's a good thing or bad only time will tell. We'll have to wait for the first baby to get nabbed by a fox before we'll be able to say anything.

[Nick]

There's loads of em wandering round the streets at night in hinckley, whether that's a good thing or bad only time will tell. We'll have to wait for the first baby to get nabbed by a fox before we'll be able to say anything.

 

Comedy genius.

[Nick]

[Voll Blau]

As others have said, if it's for meat or milk then hunt away. If it's so a few toffs can spend Boxing Day in Great Bowden trying to flex their social might by poncing around on horses and ripping defenceless creatures to bits I'm not keen.

 

That said, my favourite LCFC pin badge is of a fox dressed as a fox hunter.

[cambridgefox]

Yes.

in answer to Matts question of banning all hunting.Shot a few rats on Sunday on farmers land near his grain sheds.Largest amount of runs I had ever seen.considering the diseases they spread, some potentially fatal is this in your opinion still wrong, out of interest?

[yorkie1999]

in answer to Matts question of banning all hunting.Shot a few rats on Sunday on farmers land near his grain sheds.Largest amount of runs I had ever seen.considering the diseases they spread, some potentially fatal is this in your opinion still wrong, out of interest?

We used to do that with a ferret and golf clubs....Ahh the good old days..

[MPH]

Was pure headline grabbing class warfare policy in the first place.

 

Would repeal the ban in an instant. A wonderful part of the traditions and history of the British countryside, there are manyn things worse people get upto out there that haven't been made illegal.

 

 

 

Don't have a problem with foxes being killed. Bang. theyre gone. farmer keeps his  livestock. Give farmers free traps. You'll catch loads more.

 

 

 Chased until they are physically exhausted then ripped to shreds whilst still allive? Barbaric,

 

 

and even if other things  have not been made illegal that are worse, thats a poor argument to use to justify fox hunting.

 

 

 

I hunt and eat the meat i get. Deer is usually dead in less than ten seconds when shot accurately ( i use a scope on my rifle) But seeing an animal being ripped to shreds all because its a 'wonderful tradition' and using that to justify it is just downright sick in my opinion. And yes, i lived in the country before i moved to where i am and i still live in the country now. Using it as an attack on class warfare to justify fox hunting is quite frankly embarrasing.

[fuchsntf]

I wouldn't use the hunts to control fox population as they have always intentionally introduced foxes in to areas to hunt where they can.

 

Now, if you are going to shoot and eat something - no worries.

 

If you are are going to shoot something to make you feel err skilled or to get your rocks off then you're in need of some alternative therapeutic input.

 

If you are want to get dressed up in an odd costume so you can ride a horse wherever you want, have a bit of sherry and chase something round that could readily be hunted in more humane ways and disguise your activity with words like 'tradition' and 'social need' you may as well badger bait, cock fight and dog fight too. If you gave a shit about animals in the first place and so were doing it for farmers you'd care more about how they treat the hunting dogs. It's a tradition that only survived because wealthy people participated rather than poorer demographics.

invite terrorist in, to shoot foxes in season , might stop them chasing humans.!!!

[Trav Le Bleu]

Was pure headline grabbing class warfare policy in the first place.

 

Would repeal the ban in an instant. A wonderful part of the traditions and history of the British countryside, there are manyn things worse people get upto out there that haven't been made illegal.

 

So's morris dancing, but that doesn't make it right either.

[Finnegan]

So's morris dancing, but that doesn't make it right either.

I propose a compromise.

Morris Dancer Hunting.