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12:30pm Monday 16th January 2012 in Letters

YOUR reports on the Christmas and New Year meets are incomplete.

You missed out the bit about hunting wild animals with dogs being a crime, you missed out the trashing of badger setts, you ignored the fact that all these packs hunt foxes to exhaustion before ripping them apart or digging them out of any subterranean refuge. You forgot to mention how roads are brought to an abrupt and dangerous standstill as fox, then hounds, then riders and sometimes riderless horses, then vehicles charge back and forth along them with no regard for anyone’s safety. You missed the bit about how some hunt followers threaten anyone who disagrees with them and the violence meted out to anti-hunt activists.

So what, a few hundred people went out to support a criminal offence?

Not unusual but unless you are truly hypocritical why not glamorise drug dealing, littering, etc, as well?

Needless to say, you should not bother trying to report on the other side of the argument.

LYNN SAWYER, Boat Lane, Evesham

Comments(1)

squiblet says...
5:06pm Thu 19 Jan 12

also missed out the recent attacks on alpacas ,sheep and domestic pets,the trespassing by horses and hounds and associated damage,the cruelty of having clipped out horses standing shivering in the cold around a covert waiting for the hounds to 'accidentally 'draw a fox then being expected to gallop and jump on cold muscles,the injuries to the 'much loved' hounds getting caught up in wire and barb wire fencing, the shooting of injured dogs and all puppies who do not show enough aptitude just to perpetuate the myth that fox hounds (alone of any breed of dog) cannot live in a domesticated setting.The use of terriers to be set upon foxes underground.So much more.The law needs to be amended to require aniseed trails which would stop most of the abuses and breaking of the current law.Not hard,one would think...

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