| Topic: | Re:Contact Your MP to Stop Repeal of Foxhunting Ban | |
| Posted by: | Charlotte Kasner | |
| Date/Time: | 19/05/15 12:41:00 |
| Cruelty? It is still legal to shoot foxes which includes winging them and leaving them to run off and die slowly. It's still legal to gas them or poison them. None of these methods takes into account the age or health of the fox or hare. As mentioned previously, lamping is not illegal and has no season. I would prefer to see a clean kill by hounds of a weak, old or sick hare outside of the breeding season any day to the sack of dead and dying hares that I saw dumped in a road or the field of hare corpses that had been shot for target practice by lampers or by a farmer concerned that hunting would no longer keep the popoulation under control that a friend encountered shortly after the hunting ban. |