For fox sake. The animal abusers weep.

From: Derek Moody (derek-moody_at_farm-direct.con)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:59:31 +0100

Even Pro Hunt admit shooting is cruel. Time to put that on the next
ban list.

Your ref: pq/huntingban/hft2/dc

David Taylor MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Dear Mr Taylor

Thank you for your letter dated 23rd April. Thank you also for the
measured response to my earlier letter. This is clearly a subject to
which, unlike many of your backbench colleagues, you have given
serious thought. However, I have to say that many of the points you
make are misguided or just plain wrong. Please allow me to address
them:

" You say that “it is indisputable that death is quicker when shot
accurately than being hunted and killed by hounds”. Quite so. But the
point begs a number of fundamental questions: Firstly, how many foxes
are (or could possibly be) shot ‘accurately’? I can tell you that one
fox killed by the Meynell Hounds last season had its entire lower jaw
shot away and was in a dreadful emaciated state. THAT is the
inevitable result of lamping in a significant percentage of shots (and
I speak as someone who has experience of lamping with a .243 calibre
centre-fire rifle). Also, you may not be aware that, of the four
post-mortems carried out on foxes killed during the Burns Inquiry hunt
visits, one was shot-gun wounded. In other words all kinds of shooting
involve a significant proportion of wounding which results in dreadful
extended suffering (as do snaring and live cage-trapping where it is
not unusual to find the fox with broken teeth and bleeding jaw from
extended frenzied attempts at escape). Also, there is no way to
distinguish a pregnant vixen or a prime dog fox from an aged nuisance
fox when all you can see is a pair of glowing eyes as your target".

" You are quite right that hunting only accounts for around 10% of fox
mortality. ‘Taking up the slack’ as you put it would certainly not
‘put undue pressure on existing arrangements’. In fact I have little
doubt that far more foxes would be killed than at present because
those who have to live with their nuisance would have far less
incentive to do so. Many more would be shot-gun wounded, trapped and
snared and, with no hunting to account for the walking wounded, the
net effect would undoubtedly be a very considerable increase in fox
suffering and a far less vigorously healthy rural fox population than
we have at present"

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