Firstly LOL. I have nothing to do with the hunting but then

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

Firstly LOL. I have nothing to do with the hunting but then you know nothing about Farming or country matters either lets face it. If you knew the countryside especially here in Shropshire the rural folk know everything about everybody and what goes on, they don’t miss much believe me. I got all the dates of a hunting pack in a country pub that I occasionally go to, people talk in the countryside.

Hunts don’t breed foxes to kill them, they hunt in different areas so one fox perhaps see’s the hunt 2 to 3 times per year.

You make the mistake of thinking the hunting ban is effective, as David Cameron himself put it it’s made a mockery of the law.

Myth Number one: Hunting with dogs is illegal.
If you take the time to properly read the hunting bill, you will see that it is perfectly legal to hunt with hounds providing you either use 2 hounds and flush a fox to a gun or you can hunt with a full pack of hounds if you use a bird of prey for the kill. There is also an exemption to the ban if you are hunting in order to protect livestock. This means that the bill holds very little weight. The labour government made sure that this bill made very little difference to the farming/hunting fraternity, but gave the impression to the public that it was far more stringent than it actually is.

Myth number 2, they are all blood thristy murderers. 99.9 percent of people hunt for the social aspect. People don’t realise the importance of small communities in rural areas. The hunt is a community. As well as providing a welcome pest control service to farmers, they also help people with a number of different issues such as transporting animals, helping out in emergencies (it’s a very long list).

Hunting with hounds is actually a very green control method it culls the weakest a close season is observed they have a sensible code of practise/rules even the national trust after 10 yrs realised the way of hunts people and allowed the use of hounds to search for injured deer as a marksman has not got such a good nose.

I would also like to add the majority of the population wouldn’t think twice about laying a mouse trap if they had a mouse problem or even worse poision, this is much crueller than a dog biting a fox around the neck. It’s not inhumane the fox dies after the dog bites it around the neck, it gets torn when it’s already dead and therefore cannot feel anything. A fox isn’t just a pest like a mouse is, it’s also a deadly killer that doesn’t just kill to eat.

My grandmother used to keep hens years ago now, she had 80 in total. One night a fox got into one of the barns and killed every hen in sight, my nan came to the shed the next day to feed them and was faced with 20 dead hens. It wasn’t just the cost, it was her passion, she cared deeply about her hens as they were her pride and joy and it broke her heart, it really did.

Next time someone thinks it’s cruel they should think well how would I like it if my pet cats/dogs were killed by a fox? What if all of a sudden I had a big chunk taken out of my wage slip? Then next thing a huntsman comes up there offering to help you with your problem for free, you might just take him up on the offer. A farmer told me that a fox went and killed all his kittens to, so it’s not just lambs, rabbits or hens either.