Fox Hunting

[Autumnlicious]

Having rabies doesn't have anything to do with cuteness. Something can have rabies and still be cute. I ain't gonna hate on it for having a disease.

In all seriousness, I don't have a problem with foxes. They roam around these parts, but don't cause any trouble.

They are a real problem here Frankie(And you can blame pompous prats for that)

But the "Hunt" is just a wankfest for people with more money than brains.

Then having a brain, shouldn't you realize you can have them charged money?

You can use these idiots to finance pest control without necessarily paying for the upkeep of traps, etc,.

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The implied arguments earlier in this thread that condemns it for cruelty are silly.

It's all sentiment, not brains.

Damage/costs are good reasons to ban fox hunting. Corruption is another.

Feeling upset at a feral animal being killed is like feeling sorry for the sardine that ran into the dolphin...

As long as they have to chase the damn thing all over the country side, good riddance.

Wake me up when they shoot foxes in a barrel...

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We've always been a violent barbaric species who have no qualms killing our own, let alone animals of other species. We waste food and leave rubbish out on the streets that entices them to come into towns and cities, how can we expect them not to intrude into human populated areas?

You make it sound like we think, use our brains and attempt to do pest mitigation.

Regretfully we are always going to exterminate animals, especially when they cease being endangered "panda-oh-love-him-and-kiss-him status" and regain least concern status aka "pest-to-us-fucking-die status".

Why regretfully? I can think of hundreds to thousands of scenarios where an animal is exterminate by us humans, often without us noticing. Plowing a field, for example, will liquify any unfortunate rodent or gopher.

The least we can do is not hunt them which is a sport for the upper classes to get their sick kicks whereas pitbull fighting is a sport for the lower classes to get a daily fix.

Ah, the tired old bitch argument that hinges on total abolition.

Did you ever consider that taxing and regulating these things are the way to go?

People will always want to get their fix, right into the pocket book. But when the pocket book is empty...

But we won't. We won't even put them down "humanely" because we demand a gory bloodshed to revel in and satisfy our thirst for blood.

Excellent. I await an example of overt demand for bloodshed over established methods.

Take whales for example. They're peaceful to us. They're intelligent. They're endangered. Yet we ruthlessly hunt them anyway. We can't terminate a single one of them quickly or "humanely" because of their sheer size, resorting to violent methods such as exploding harpoons which is an awful bloody way to die.

Wait, wait, wait, wait!

I thought I was going to get an example of killing something in a less humane way when other alternatives are available!

Disappoint.

In any case, is there an easier way to kill a whale than blunt force trauma and massive blood loss?