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@jd.linklater wrote:

There is no need to bring back fox hunting despite the hunting fraternity spouting their nonsesnse about pest control. Urban foxes are only a pest in our cities because we are so profligate with our waste.  There is no such problem in the countryside.

 

If a farmer has problems with a fox taking livestock he is quite entitled to take a gun and shoot it without the inconvenience of a pack of hounds and an equally repulsive pack of hunters on horses trampling all over his land.

 

Fox hunting is nothing less than a bloodsport disguised in the garb of tradition.

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 Well said JD old chap. Couldn't agree more. So much so that I've given you a kudos. Actually I tried to give you two, but this appears to be disallowed under the rules of the Board. Makes sense though, when you think about it. Well a damned sight more sense than charging through the undergrowth on horseback yelling 'Tally Ho', dressed in a red coat and cravat, with a dozen yapping hounds, in pursuit of poor old Basil Brush.