Fox Hunting?

oh rubes you just dont know how right you are hun!!!!!!

bring em on lol!!!!

(and bugger off those in tight jodpurs and tight red jackets…. have you seen how much they cost btw!!!! and pull on a pair of shorts…. its much more sexy!!!!)

:wink: I look forward to it then!! :P :P

love ya already girl!!

you get yar wee arse im bed noo!!!!

cheerio and see ya in the morn (well evening for me luv!!)

na nite xx

oh and that werent fighting talk to you, it was at everybody BUT you!!!!!!

Just a couple of reasons why I oppose fox hunting.. As for your comment about professionals… I understand members of both Parliment and the Royal family take part with hunts up and down the country. How would you like to justify their role in the hunt?

They are followers they dont control the fox population. The people who are in employment with the hunt are the pros, they were who I was refering too not the people who pay to follow. Again could you tell us the humane methods of killing that you think are possible?

You come from a misplaced idea that Foxes need to be controlled. I don’t agree.

Killing foxes has no lasting results. Foxes are territorial animals – if one fox is killed another soon moves into its place from a surrounding area. Foxes also control their own population.

The fox’s diet of rabbits and rats actually makes it an asset to most farmers. A 1996 MAFF booklet stated that only 0.4% of lambs who die do so due to accidents, dog attacks, and all other animal predatation – which includes being taken by foxes.

There are estimated to be 250,000 adult foxes in the UK, producing about 400,000 cubs a year, most of which will die in their first year of life. Humans kill about 400,000 foxes a year so a ban on fox hunting, which kills about 20,000 a year at most, will have little impact.

I do not think that Foxes need to be controlled, therefore I have no reason to put forward an alternative to Fox Hunting.

@drivel wrote:

@tiggy wrote:

Just a couple of reasons why I oppose fox hunting.. As for your comment about professionals… I understand members of both Parliment and the Royal family take part with hunts up and down the country. How would you like to justify their role in the hunt?

They are followers they dont control the fox population. The people who are in employment with the hunt are the pros, they were who I was refering too not the people who pay to follow. Again could you tell us the humane methods of killing that you think are possible?

You come from a misplaced idea that Foxes need to be controlled. I don’t agree.

Killing foxes has no lasting results. Foxes are territorial animals – if one fox is killed another soon moves into its place from a surrounding area. Foxes also control their own population.

The fox’s diet of rabbits and rats actually makes it an asset to most farmers. A 1996 MAFF booklet stated that only 0.4% of lambs who die do so due to accidents, dog attacks, and all other animal predatation – which includes being taken by foxes.

There are estimated to be 250,000 adult foxes in the UK, producing about 400,000 cubs a year, most of which will die in their first year of life. Humans kill about 400,000 foxes a year so a ban on fox hunting, which kills about 20,000 a year at most, will have little impact.

I do not think that Foxes need to be controlled, therefore I have no reason to put forward an alternative to Fox Hunting.

Sorry can you just explain that a tad more clearly – If “humans” kill about 400,000 foxes a year – and there are estimated to be 250,000 adult foxes – and fox hunting kills 20,000 foxes a year – and most cubs out of 400,000 born each year die in their first year – then surely foxes will be extinct very shortly !!!!

Seems so doesn’t it !