Fox hunting?

[Virgin Mary]

The debate is on fox hunting, not shooting foxes in general. I'm against it because it's making a sport out of killing something, likewise with bullfighting, dog fighting and other blood sports. I think it's sadistic and outdated.

[ideabox]

I agree with fox hunting, however I disagree with the methods used. It would
be daft to allow the fox to keep coming back and kill your chickens.
Unfortunately, they have to be put to death otherwise it would get out of hand.
I believe that fox hunting should be conducted out of purpose rather than out
of sport.
[Making it as brief as possible!] =)

[N-Dubz]

there would still be enough chicken to go around & the fact we can live off other foods ..

its sickening that people think that a fox should be shot for eating.. & that someone can find it fun and make it a sport :S

& some dogs are badly trained, used for dogfighting and ill treated meaning they attack people etc. dogs could attack us though anytime of the day like proper rip us apart - but yet most dont? if they did they'd be put down.. shame we dont get put down for killing a innocent fox trying to eat right.

it is animal cruelty & technologic you clearly said "we are the more dominate speices we can shoot whatever we want" in diffrent words or w/e.. so you didnt say you didnt agree with it - sorry if you dont.

just because we're more clever dosnt mean we should kill innocent animals who were here ages before us.. like virginmary said we use them for such stupid things such as dogfighting etc which is just pointless and kills a dog that could have been a nice dog if it hadnt been brought up like that.

i dont agree with killing animals for sport, fun or to earn some money.

[ideabox]

No! I don't want my chickens to die! They're my pets, not my foodsource [well, apart from the eggs] =)

[GommeInc]

Fox hunting itself is barbaric and old, I don't quite see the point in it. If the horse riders and dogs get a thrill out of it, there are other ways. It would be alot cleaner and easier on the mind if they went game hunting rather than fox hunting, because foxes are seen in a better light than rabbits, pheasants and partridges. Shooting foxes for attacking chickens and/or household pets is ok though, you're protecting something with more value than a fox, but that is afterall if the fox is forcefully breaking an entry though strong fences... Not just for standing and staring...

[Splinter]

Sorry if this has been posted many times before :rolleyes:
But i feel strongly for this.
Fox hunting has got a really bad reputation, and now its been banned im furious
We are now made to do Paper Trails around a woods, and the first person to the end wins. :eusa_whis
I'm sorry but this is stupid.
No wonder this country is falling apart. People are stopping traditions in England which have been going for hundred's of years. Okay, okay its animal cruelty, but when we were allowed we hardly caught anything anyway! :@:@
Farmers especially are annoyed as foxes are eating chickens, geese and ducks and its rather annoying.

I just wondered on your views?
I didnt mean to offend anyone this is just merely my opinion
x

You feel strongly for chasing and killing animals? Hmm. Fox Hunting of course has a bad reputation for a good reason, it's wholely inhumane and the fact that you now can't have fun chasing and killing foxes isn't a reason not to ban it. Nor is tradition, many things used to be tradition from hanging to witch hunting. Are we to recommence these activities because they are part of our tradition? No we stop them because they are barabaric and uncivilised.

Foxes are of course bad but a gun will sort that out as will numerous other methods. There exists nothing more repulsive than backwards country folk all dressed up ready to chase another living creature with the expressed wish to cause it pain and suffering. There are bigger problems in the world than ensuring you have a good time. People are dying for the love of god.

[Joemaphobe]

I think the ban should be nullified...
it's stupid to ban hundreds of years traditon as well being impratical to farmers..

[FlyingJesus]

Who are we to decide that they shouldn't be eating farm animals, they have to eat to survive and it's us who caged their food up so in turn we're actually starving them, disrupting the food chain.

We're the dominant species, that's who. Yeah they eat to survive, but think of this: if humans didn't have chicken farms and the foxes are too slow/stupid to catch wild rabbits, they'll die anyway, so what difference does it make killing one which approaches a food source that isn't native?

We're animals yet if we kill each other we get life imprisonment. We aren't any better than them

Untrue, we're clearly better than them because we have the power to do as we want with them.

And then there's the obvious point, would you like to be chased around by animals twice the size of you, shot and killed for fun, as a sport?

Strangely enough no, but that doesn't happen and no-one hunts sentient animals (mostly because it's only humans and "possibly" dolphins that are sentient) so it's a void point.

Shoot all the *removed* rabbits, all the fox's will die or find something better to eat, no more need for fox hunting as fox's will become endangered, problem solved.

Ahahahaha best solution I ever heard, that is truly genius

Us humans think because we are more clever then other animals we have all the rights.

Yeah...

Fox's shouldnt be chased by us we're way bigger than them and much clever aka fox traps could be used etc. How is that fair?

WHOA you're against hunting where the death is fairly imminent but FOR traps that injure animals and put them in massive amounts of pain before they starve?

Animals help us alot we dont give them the credit they deserve and crying because this sport has been cleared just showed the usual disrespect we show animals everyday.

Yeah I guess I must've forgotten about the time that fox saved my life, fed my family and bought me a new car.

most animals could rip us to peices if they wanted too, but do they?

No because we have technology and can blast the hell out of them lol

Fox Hunting of course has a bad reputation for a good reason, it's wholely inhumane

No it isn't. Foxes run because they have a natural instinct to want to live (preservation of species) but they can only show the physical signs of emotions like fear, animals do not have emotions or feel pain like humans do. Further, in a hunt the death would either come from a gunshot or a dog - a gunshot will usually put it right out, and if not the dogs will get it right after, and if the dogs get there first then being the natural predators they are they'll go for the throat and make it a quick death. Foxes only get "mauled" by the dogs after the death.

[Technologic]

Foxes are pests, pests are exterminated.

[Mercenary]

You must have problems in your head if you have an urge to chase after something and kill it. And they have to eat to survive, sorry to say.

Calling human instincts, your ancestors were doing the same thing. Hunting for something and killing it is the most natural thing to us humans. It should have ******* stayed that way, people who can't hunt died.