[bananarama]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I agree with most of your post MTVN, I watched a programme on this a few years ago, in it they were analysing why the fox was a messy killer in that it killed so many Chickens for example.

It's conclusion was firstly the noise of all the birds panicked the fox so it killed as many as it could, Also though the aim is of the fox is to get food and then also build up and store food,Foxes had been seen killing chickens and eating one then the others it killed, one by one carrying them in its mouth nearer its den and burying them to eat later.

However, foxes find their efforts and the noises of the chickens alert the danger so get interrupted in that carrying off and burying activity,hence why so many bodies are left seemingly killed for no reason.

Even so, it is nature,so I don;t see the need for the inhumane act of loads of well fed men and women, riding around on horseback with loads of hounds chasing one fox to enjoy seeing torn to pieces.
Someone said, fox hunting was 'the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable'.I forget who.

I just don't like fox hunting at all, as I said I saw a as a child a fox caught by the hounds and ripped apart alive.I have that picture in my mind and it was horrific and to see grown ups laughing and enjoying it made me feel really sick.

Indeed a very fair and balanced perspective.

Some animals at some times may need to be controlled in the interests of mans own survival in the natural food chain of this hell scenario dog eat dog world we are in.

Killing for food or killing to save futur food is one thing but killing for pure sadistic entertainment is something all together different as I know you are aware of from the points you raise......


If animals do need to be culled it should be done in a humane way as possible. Not some dick head of a sadistic fox hunter or some amateur shooter of farmer charging about with a gun.

All of the items listed in the poll can be concluded to be a form of cruelty simply because man is interfering with nature purly for entertainment.....