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Hunts will be able to meet

9:00am Friday 27th January 2012 in Letters

RE “No foxes, no hunt meets” (Letters, January 19).

Fortunately for hunting enthusiasts the present hunting laws, which they want to waste Parliamentary time trying to repeal, allows for the following of a laid trail but not for the intentional hunting of foxes with dogs.

This means the hunt will be able to meet up until and including the time when hell freezes over.

When hell freezes over, they will be able to fit ice skates to their horses, replacing the wheels which are currently required because they spend so much time on the roads.

Meanwhile, occasionally, carefully selected members of the public (George Cowley will have to wait his turn) will be able from the comfort of their own gardens or patios to witness a fox being accidentally torn to pieces by hounds.

The bogus argument that fox hunting with hounds protects livestock (lambs, hens etc) is dealt with on conservativesagainstfoxhunting.

com on their blue-foxblog Hunting from a Farming Perspective.

I would like to see the Countryside Alliance put its resources behind preserving a more worthy rural tradition – that of the visits by mobile library units to the streets and villages of our area.

STEVE ANDERSON, Bourton on the Hill.

Comments(3)

NoToHareCoursing says...
7:49pm Fri 27 Jan 12

Fox hunting, hare coursing and stag hunting are vile so-called 'sports' that belong in the past. The Hunting Act 2004 must be retained and strengthened. And, before anybody from the Countryside Alliance has a go at me, please not that I am a farmer and a countryman born and bred.

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stevemisog says...
10:03am Sun 29 Jan 12

@ NoToHareCoursing.

Good on you sir. You are a credit to your peers. I wish there were more like you :)

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Turner94 says...
11:09am Sun 29 Jan 12

@NoToHareCoursing

i agree with stevemisog

i wish there was more people like you around!
This sport is barbaric and cruel, we may as well get rid of dog fighting and animal cruelty. Its exactly the same in which dogs are set on each other and the last dog standing wins, in this case there is only one loser every time, the fox. Hunters have no respect for the countryside nor the animals around them, they dont even treat their dogs well. I watched a video of a hound getting hit by a car, the hunters was no where to be seen. When they finally came into view the lady who videoed the incident told the bloke on horse back that his hound was just hit by a car and obviously needed to be taken to a vet, he just told the woman to shut up. Now i will stop at nothing to make sure every animal including hounds are kept safe from these vandals on horseback, they just ruin every thing, including peoples land>
i have two questions on the matter...
who cleans up the dog and horse mess? and what do they do with the remains of the fox?
my guess is that the people who own the land clean up after the hunters.

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