Re: The Foxes came to visit last night - rest in peace The Chickens, 2005-2006. So, do I eat them??

PammyT wrote:

Oh surely not since the hunts won't need to breed foxes if they
aren't allowed to hunt them.

Surely you don't believe that hunts breed foxes, do you? Why would
they need to? The ruddy things breed well here all on their own.

Not just my belief, it was proved without any doubt and evidence
published.

Show me.


Besides, the hunts tell us constantly that most
of the foxes get away.

Yes, a lot do. But any form of fox control is good as far as I'm
concerned.

Yes well some rational people don't simply want to eradicate a
species of our dwindling wildlife because it forces them to make an
effort to keep their stock safe.


Foxes are not dwindling at all. They are increasing because of stupid
people that feed them and for the same reason foxes are becoming not afraid
of man. They should be, and they need to be.
>People are still allowed to lamp for them
which is much better at controlling them.

What difference do you see in lamping with lurchers (killing foxes
by dogs at night in the light of a lamp, for those who don't know)
and going after them by day with hounds?

Hunting with hounds is illegal so you would not be allwoed to loose
lurchers on a fox. Since hunting with hounds is illegal when I said
lamping I assumed everyone understood about shooting at night.

Did you mean, then, by lamping, that someone went out with a powerful lamp
at night and used the light of it to shoot a fox?

Why do you think lamping is better at controlling foxes than hunting?
Because they get more, or what?
Or is it really a class thing?

Class? What has class got to do with anything?


quite a lot


Surely my army officer
father and private boarding school education would put me in the pro
hunting league? I'm really not sure I understand what you mean? Or is
it that upper and middle class people can afford the equipment, gun
licence etc?
Lamping is better because the unsuspecting fox hgets caught in the
powerful beam of light and his 2 glowing eyes create a perfect target
to aim at. With laser sights it is a quick clean kill.

No-one I know lamps without dogs.


I am constantly amazed that anyone professing to like animals would
happily see an intelligent species of animal chased to the point of
exhaustion before being torn apart alive by a pack of hounds.
Evidence has shown also that the swift bite to the back of the neck
is not always the case.

I'm not particularly concerned that you are amazed. We must agree to differ
about this. I might have different evidence, but I don't want to argue.
Fox numbers need to be controlled.

Would you be happy to dipatch your chickens by throwing them alive
into a mincing machine as some poultry companies do and which is one
of the approved methods of culling chickens?

You have lost me here. I haven't felt any need to do it yet and doubt I
ever will. Mine tend to die of old age.

Well I for one think hunting with hounds, and mincing live chickens
is vile and I don't think much of anyone who thinks it is acceptable.

That is not the same thing at all.

Foxes need to be controlled, they have no predator and they are becoming a
huge nuisance. So come up with something, eh? Instead of equating my ideas
with suggesting I might like mincing live chickens. I find that insulting.

Tina


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