WELL HASNT BANNING FOX HUNTING REALLY COME BACK TO BITE THE MPS WHO BANNED IT , i have foxes that come into my yard all the time to eat the dogs food and drive my dog in sane barking , i could nt work out why see was barking all the time while in the house late at night , then i heard the fox barking , so i let my dane out and see hada grand ole chase after it , but still they come back , bring back fox hunting , in gb , it never stopped here in n ireland young boys hunt them everyday , owen nw
The hunt are pretty useless, our local farmer says they never caught a fox round here and yet we see them all of the time. When we have fox trouble with our poultry, we get the expert in who traps / shoots them. It's more effective.
I have never been fox hunting but know all about it as most of me mates wives do it, what is funny is people from the urban areas making/supporting laws about something they know nawt about. Fox hunting has been made illegal but terrier work,hasn't?Google video that! all cos they dont wear red jackets and appear posh.If the hounds kill em they are dead, If they are fit and not mangy they get away,healthy and scott free If someone punts 30 grms of 6s into em at 25 yrds or jaw or leg em with a .222 they crawl off raid bins for a bit then die??? They cant tell me it was about animal welfare. It was left, v right,urban v country class thing.
I know of Hunts who haven't caught a thing in years! I also know of some who've caught more since the ban! You are 63 times more likely to suffer a human bite than a fox bite! (source BBC News). In which case I think we should introduce people hunting. (I can think of a long list of candidates, No.1 being Jeremy Vine)
Come to think about it, I have never been bitten by a fox but have been bit by people on a couple of occasions.
Dear meat eaters. You revel in ever new and innivotave methods of cooking animal flesh and you chose which animal you eat and which animal to take into your house and bestow love and affection upon. For some of you affection for these animals transfers, it seems, onto other animals that you arent going to eat so you feed and nurture them, even enticing them onto your property and into your home. Once these animals were afraid of you but it seems no more. Unfortunately the carnivores dont differentiate in thier choice of meat. If animals are a problem then control them, cull them if you need to but dont be surprised when a wild animal does whatt a wild animal does. As for Blood-Sports well youve got to worry about people who gain pleasure from inflicting cruel and torturous deaths on small animals havent you. Ttfn
PIE I live in the country, I neither support nor condemn fox hunting. The fox is a feral animal here in Australia, I have when needed shot foxes I rarely missed a head shot. I don't hunt for "sport" only to remove feral animals when needed.
Anyway, back to Urban Foxes . . . . . . . Apparently you can deter them by getting a bloke to urinate at fox height around the edges of your garden.
Its only legal to use terriers to bolt a fox into a net to be humanly dispatched by shooting it Its only rats and rabbits you can actually hunt using dogs
Both the fox attacks I can remember have something fishy about them. If it was a fox then you can't really blame them for trying to eat, it's the parents responsibility to keep their children safe (or preferably not have children in the first place). I'm guilty of feeding them too :s.
It's definitely a bit weird. They said the baby had one finger bitten off but surely at that age the fingers are so tiny that a fox would have had to be pretty selective and delicate to bite off just the one?????
and more humane. i don't understand why the need for the 'hunting' pantomime. if someone wants to dress up on a horse why not just do dressage? (aka how to make a majestic animal look ridiculous)
blokes do like peeing outside don't they? what's that about? many a bloke i've known have taken great pleasure in peeing in my compost bins (not a euphemism). is it territorial?
