“A gamekeeper can kill 2 to 10 foxes in one night, a

Comment on Election 2010 Conservative Petitions and Banning Fox Hunting by David.

“A gamekeeper can kill 2 to 10 foxes in one night, a hunting pack would be doing good to kill 2 foxes within a period of 6 months, I heard of one that only killed 2 for the whole year which is quite common.”

So you agree hunting foxes with a pack of dogs is not effective pest control?

Add to that hunts breed their own foxes and not only is it not effective pest control, it makes the issue worse!

You make the assumption the people who in polls vote to keep the hunting ban also want a ban on controlling foxes.

I don’t know if any polls have been done asking the duel question of:

Should we ban fox hunting with hounds?

Should we ban farmers from controlling foxes on their land?

I’m sure there would not be a majority supporting a ban on farmers controlling foxes.

If a farmer has a problem with foxes killing his livestock and the farmer wants to clear out the fox population on his land, he has that right to do so.

If I were a farmer and I couldn’t stop foxes killing my livestock by having secure pens for chickens etc… or found foxes on my land were killing lambs, I’d shoot foxes to manage them.

What’s wrong is killing foxes with hounds for sport, the hunt has nothing whatsoever to do with controlling a pest as you’ve proved, it’s a blood sport and finding fun in killing wild animals is wrong in our society.

If you are part of the hunt why don’t you stand up and be counted and admit it’s about the thrill of the hunt and the thrill of the kill. As a teenager (before 15) I used to shoot birds and small mammals with an air rifle and I enjoyed the challenge. I now believe what I did was wrong, but that’s the way I was raised, a lack of moral guidance. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t enjoy killing things though.

Now I’d have no problem killing an animal if I had to, but I would NEVER do it for fun and that’s what fox hunting is about, the hunt finds killing a fox fun.

David