| New Years Day Hunt - 2011 |
| This is just my opinion ..
we all have one. For as long as I can remember I have disliked this sport, which is what it is, and each time I see it I dislike it even more. Why don't I stay away then ? There is no getting away from it here, the hunt can be seen and heard from my back and front garden. I don't go out of my way to make trouble for the hunters. It's not my fault they are in the village when I'm going for my New Years Day newspaper, not my fault if they can't get their 4x4's, trikes and horses pass me as I'm walking back home through the lanes like I do nearly every other day of the year. It's not my fault it makes me so angry that I might mumble under my breath and mutter the odd, "tossers". it's not my fault if I happen to see a fox running for it's life across a field and I yell at it to run as fast as it possibly can and find someplace to hide.. It's not the fox's fault if it's in it's nature to kill chickens and pet rabbits and to become a pest diving in rubbish bins to feed itself. We kill animals so we don't go hungry to. The only difference is, is that we don't chase our dinner around a field with a pack of excited hounds before we kill it. There are more humane ways of culling a pest, but this is a sport which ends with an animal being torn to pieces, well it did until the Hunting Act was bought into action, which bans hunting with dogs, unless those dogs are following a scent. I tried to get more information on this from the internet, but I got confused as to what the law actually meant and which law it was, 2004 or 2005. I saw 2 foxes running for their lives across the fields with the hounds not that far behind, these foxes were lucky enough to get away. First I thought that the hounds were only allowed to chase a scent that was laid out in advance, then I thought that the fox had to be shot before the hounds got to it, I saw no one with a shot gun that was going to shoot it before a hound got it, just some bloke in a hat blowing his horn. I don't agree with arranged dog fights, cock-fights, or any other so called sport that involves being cruel to any animal just for the fun of it. I don't agree to caged chickens that have been kept in poor conditions and have never seen the sun before they are on the supermarket shelves, or the slaughter of any animal that hasn't been treated properly before it's on a dinner plate. Wild animals hunt and chase down their food, that's what they do. Nobody was going to eat a fox after it had been chased across fields and scared to death. Animals hunt to survive, we are humans, what gives us the right to make hunting ANY animal a cruel and unnecessary sport?? We're not cave men any more, we don't need to go hunting to survive, or in this case ... for fun !!! I could go on and talk about cruelty to other animals, wild and domestic, but I think you might get where I'm coming from. |
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| 1 January 2011 |