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

PammyT wrote:
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.

As we have taken away their main predator and more recenlt, caused the
circumstances of the uncontrolled growth in the populations causing a weak
and sickly shadow of the species former state it is our responisibilty to
redress the balance
They are not dwindling
I have no problem in people keeping stocks safe against the threat of a
"normal" healthy population
When the species behaviour has altered as much as foxes has so as to hunt at
daytime and kill without hunger - then something has to be done
As I said I want a healthy populations

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.

This is not as common as you wish to think unfortunately
and much more importantly you are just as likely to kill the fit and
healthy as the weak - a poor policy of population balance
Whereas the hunt takes the weak and infirm -- this I have personal
expereince of. - weights, diets, and internal bodily condition


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.

They were also shot in some hunts
Death is swift whichever
Much more than a lingering death after a missguided shot


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Jill Bowis

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