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Pro-Hunt campaigners. For a start, it's a barbaric sport, causing unneccessary suffering to cut ickle foxes. And now it turns out the people that support can only express their opinions through violence. The reporter trying to interview people with blood running down their faces has to compete with mongoloids running up to the camera shouting "It suuuuucks!!!" in their finest mongol tones. Complete dickwads, in my opinion - just waiting for the Police to set the alsations on them, see how they like it.

I'm against fox hunting. The only reason I can see anyone being pro is the amount of dogs that'll get put down...

Like those anti-hunting video footage of farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land. If they dont want foxes than why help them survive espcially through seasons that they usually find hard. Help the foxes, kill the foes, help the foxes, kill the foxes. Keeping control of fox numbers is ridiculous. They have as much right to the countryside as anyone. Infact I would be very pleased to have a fox cub kill pigeons in my back garden.

Exactly. If the excuse for doing it is that it controls the fox population, why is it only posh sods with plums in their mouths that do it? And why the gnarly uniform?

Also, the "spastics" of my title are the ones that were throwing stuff at the Police, when it was meant to be a peaceful protest.

Foxes really aren't that difficult to control. We have a lot of them around here, but they're naturally afraid, so good security and good fencing should keep foxes away from your land.

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So the reason to keep hunting is because there will be some unwanted dogs and "a flood of unwanted horses"? Which you claim will most likely be put down? Which would make your reason for being pro-hunting... animal cruelty?

Mmm, irony is delicious when served with sarcasm.

It's a funny image though, of all these dressed up toffs in their hunt uniforms, hanging around on street corners because there's nothing else to do. "They took away our livelihoods." Boo hoo, take up stamp collecting.

"They took away our right to kill foxes, so let's go kill the dogs and horses we aren't using any more."

That's just it though, they encourage foxes to live on their land, so that they can be hunted down, and come on if foxes cant live in the wild and fields than where can they go?

I'm against all sports that involve killing.

I think that the number of Foxes should be controlled through more ethical culling (if such a thing is possible). I cannot hold sway with any argument that hunting with dogs is the most humane way of ensuring that the Fox population does not threaten the stock, and in turn livelihood, of farmers and so on.

Surely it is possible to entice Foxes into a pre-baited area and shoot them with a rifle? Or perhaps use a dart gun to tranq them and then give them a lethal injection to finish them off?

Not very enticing options though; for posh wa*kers who love to dress up in stupid attire, ride about the country in "regal" fashion and then guffaw loudly whilst some dogs rip a fox to bits.

It's a game hunting bill they're voting on today, so I guess they'll be targeting duck hunters too, which is fine. Pests and vermin can be controlled in other ways that aren't being ripped apart by dogs.

I'm pro-hunting. Mainly because it will destroy many people's lively hoods, some only know how to live this way, and because all the hunting dogs, yes mostly all of them, will be put down. Also the hunt's horses will suffer too as there will be a flood of unwanted horses, solution: home a few, put down the rest. So these "spastics" want to save horses and dogs lives.. I'm sure they're sorry for caring.

It may be a barbaric way of dealing with a fox, but it's much better than a farmer who has a crooked shot shooting them and letting them wander off to their painful deaths. Admittedly the hunt's kill is painful, but it doesn't last as long as the shot from a farmer who doesn't give a damn whether the poor creature is going to die straight around or be in pain for a few days.

And to be honest labour are only forcing it through because they want our votes. Blair will probably kill us all anyway. Bring on Judgement day already.

All that's wrong with Fox Hunting is that it's seen as barbaric by a lot of people. But it's really no different to duck hunting, game shooting or owning an abbatoir or slaughterhouse. What people don't realise is that it keeps numbers of foxes down, which is good because they are a pest. It's also a business and a tradition- not something you can just get rid of. People who just think it's cruel obviously need to look at the full picture.