Fox Hunting?

@drivel wrote:

@Tory Girl wrote:

:lol: Well you said dogs hunted by instinct, the reason they don’t anymore is because dogs arent allowed to roam are they.

Get yourself up to Benwell , Scotswood road areas of Newcastle – then you will see if dogs aren’t roaming free in packs
There again – go down the Bigg market – Friday . Saturday night – loads of dogs there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LMAO!! now now!! :lol:

@Tory Girl wrote:

^^^ what she said, and also if a dog gets an infection or has a tumour thats not detectable then the cute cuddly family pet can suddenly turn. Plenty of stories out there that say how family pets suddenly attack because of something thats gone undetected. Even family pets that have no track record can suddenly turn on a small child.

Very true Tg – see you can talk sense when you put your mind to it and shut off the PMT .

Young kids who aer at eye level with the dogs are especially at risk – even as you say -if the dog is a family pet without any history of attacks

Dogs naturally even when playing shake it’s prey quite violently – and although they start off playing it can soon lead to serious injuries

Young kids should never ever be left alone with the family dog – or a fox come to think of it

Again – another thread taken over by liberal attitudes

Have none of you ever seen big cats stalking and chasing their prey – bringing it down – snapping it’s neck then severing it’s neck

It’s nature it happens

You’re all thinking of a fox as a cuddly little Basil Brush puppet

Foxes cause all sorts of serious damage – look at what’s left of a hen coop after a fox has ravaged it

You might think differently if a fox attacks the family pet

Theres nothing wrong with the hunt – it’s a great tradition – it keeps thousands in employ

As usual it is 95% of “townies” that are against hunting – people who wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a fox and a red squirrel !!!

I have lived and worked in the countryside, alongside people who are pro hunting.
My grandparents were anti-hunting, although they were staunch Conservatives in a rural area where many of their friends hunted. My grandfather was indeed a Tory councillor.! My mother was also vehemently opposed to hunting and she was also a died-in-the-wool Conservative.

I agree foxes are not nice, cuddly animals and I have no objection to their numbers being controlled humanely. More pets have probably been killed by hunts than by foxes. But foxhunting is not humane and whatever the pro- lobby might say, it is not really concerned with controlling fox numbers and cannot be a very effective way of doing so.

I have worked as a livestock lorry driver and I have seen first-hand the gratuitous cruelty that is perpetrated by a minority of farmers, farm workers, drivers and market drovers. These attitudes are the same as those found in those who worked in the hunt industery.

Against, definately. No excuse nor reason. If Foxes need controlling, then it’s better done by professionals than toffs in fancy dress poncing about the countryside.