Comments on: Kevin Maguire: True blues red in tooth and claw

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:30:00 +0000

So Andrew thinks that because the hunting act is being flouted left right and centre by HUNT THUGS that it should be scrapped! OKAY, then let us also scrap other laws like burglary, because they clearly don’t work!!
The hunt ban should be strengthened and I believe it will be as soon as we get rid of the rubbish Tories and get in a compassionate government.

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By: Judi Hewitt

Judi Hewitt — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:43 +0000

What a horrible world we live when people like ELIZABETH and ANDREW support such obscene cruelty as fox hunting. Do they really know about the level of cruelty that is metered out to foxes so that a few sad wicked people can get their jollies off.
They go on about the class issue being the reason behind the ban, yet many rough and ready council house tenants also hunt and kill and animals for fun, so how can it be a class issue?
It also seems to have escaped these AWFUL people’s minds that just before the ban, Simon Hart and another whose name escapes me, was saying there was a shortage of COUNTRY FOXES for the hunt and so they were calling on hunt masters around the country to use artificial earths to encourage the breeding of foxes. Kinda lends a lie to foxes over populating then!
It’s only mankind which has spread out of control across the globe. Maybe we should start culling them instead – starting with the pro-hunt SCUM.

By: Judi Hewitt

Judi Hewitt — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:00 +0000

By: Giles Bradshaw

Giles Bradshaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:13:50 +0000

GB: makes a good point. When the method of culling changes the health of the fox population will too. Fox hunting tends to target weaker diseased animals and does not produce wounded animals.

Regarding self regulation of numbers. Research in Sweden has shown that apex predators do actually control fox numbers. When they are removed you get meso predator release which means fox numbers increase to the detriment of biodiversity.

By: Giles Bradshaw

Giles Bradshaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:13:00 +0000

GB: makes a good point. When the method of culling changes the health of the fox population will too. Fox hunting tends to target weaker diseased animals and does not produce wounded animals.

By: Giles Bradshaw

Giles Bradshaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:05:41 +0000

As far as I am concerned it is nonsense legislation.

I use my dogs to flush out and chase deer from my woodland.

I’m allowed to do this but only if I use only two dogs and if I shoot the deer.

I have never heard of legislation more stupid than this.

By: Giles Bradshaw

Giles Bradshaw — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:05:00 +0000

As far as I am concerned it is nonsense legislation.

I use my dogs to flush out and chase deer from my woodland.

I’m allowed to do this but only if I use only two dogs and if I shoot the deer.

I have never heard of legislation more stupid than this.

By: P.E.

P.E. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:27:59 +0000

With their expectation that the Tories will win the election, the hunting fraternity are back in full cry and are now regurgitating their old self-serving arguments with their usual level of venom.

The Hunting Act is a long overdue piece of legislation to curb barbarism. The hunters, as shown by their messages, have no recognisable standards of acceptable behaviour when it comes to how they treat wild animals. Being unfit to curb their own violent tendencies, legislation had to be brought to curb them. That is one of the main functions of legislation – to protect victims from the selfish actions of others. The hunters have demonstrated in every conceivable way that they consider themselves to be above the law, and have violently broken the law time and time again.

Labour deserve the highest praise for introducing a ban on hunting. if they are re-elected, they will close the loopholes which now exist in the law, and that is what really frightens the hunters.

The next election will offer a clear choice – vote Tory and reward violent lawbreakers for their determined acts of cruelty, or vote Labour and see a good law made better, and the hunters finally forced to accept they are not, no matter how ruthless and vicious they are prepared to be, above the law of the land.