What do you think of sport hunting?

[Master]

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.Fox hunting originated in the 16th century in the form which was practised legally until 2005 when it was banned although certain modified forms of hunting foxes with hounds are still within the law.

[El Kabong]

Fox hunting isn't actually "hunting" per say....doesn't require much talent (if any) and the dogs do all the work. It's the chase that matters, the kill is not nice at all.

Using dogs for hunting (especially when they aren't flushing or retrieving birds) is kind of a tough practice. Some dogs get lost on hunts, some get injured or killed as well depending on what you're after. Plott Hounds are some great hunters, my dog is part Plott, but I wouldn't use him for what he was bred for because as a pet he's too precious for me to risk him against some stupid wild boar or a black bear.

The people I know that are opposed to hunting are just completely unaware of the skill, dedication, hard work, and just the over all strain it puts on a person...to have a hands on interaction with how you feed your family really deepens your respect for nature. It's tough to cull an animal....a lot of the times hunters are happy with their shot they are most happy the animal wasn't wounded and that the death was as quick and painless as possible for them. The hunters I know are probably more tenderhearted around animals than the eco-nuts I know.

[Beanflicker]

Those fox hunters are a bunch of cunts. I never understood why anyone got off on violence against animals.

To me hunting and animal cruelty like that are completely different things. To me it's night and day, like comparing a soldier killing an enemy soldier on the battlefield and some pathetic lone wolf gunning down people on the street because girls wouldn't sleep with him. Hunting is a noble art and it's what we've been doing to survive since mankind began, killing an animal for the sake of it is just being a cunt imo.

[brocktonblockbust]

Those fox hunters are a bunch of cunts. I never understood why anyone got off on violence against animals.

To me hunting and animal cruelty like that are completely different things. To me it's night and day, like comparing a soldier killing an enemy soldier on the battlefield and some pathetic lone wolf gunning down people on the street because girls wouldn't sleep with him. Hunting is a noble art and it's what we've been doing to survive since mankind began, killing an animal for the sake of it is just being a cunt imo.

animal cruelty is just is just as bad as pedophilia

[Beanz]

I shoot animals and people most weekends :-)

Not to get to serious but when you view how people treat other people its really not surprising how we treat non-humans. I guess thats what makes it all the more disgusting also. Well that and the fact that those that care have to witness it. I've tried to find a word to cover "voluntary species suicide" which would apply specifically for us since we are so special and I cant find one. I've used the term "empiricide" in relationship to what it is we do and question why we do the same things over and over and over again expecting different results but that does not seem to cut it here completely.

With a camera :-)

[Beanz]

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.Fox hunting originated in the 16th century in the form which was practised legally until 2005 when it was banned although certain modified forms of hunting foxes with hounds are still within the law.

Drag hunting is the only legal form available now which does not involve a fox at all.

[Beanflicker]

Those fox hunters are a bunch of cunts. I never understood why anyone got off on violence against animals.

To me hunting and animal cruelty like that are completely different things. To me it's night and day, like comparing a soldier killing an enemy soldier on the battlefield and some pathetic lone wolf gunning down people on the street because girls wouldn't sleep with him. Hunting is a noble art and it's what we've been doing to survive since mankind began, killing an animal for the sake of it is just being a cunt imo.

animal cruelty is just is just as bad as pedophilia

They are all a shit that needs wiping up IMO

[goti71]

Over here we have rich toffs on their horses chasing a little fox through the countryside with a pack of wild hounds ready to rip it apart all in the name of sport and culture.

That's even "disgusting'er" than bullfighting (the latter at least takes balls and skill, even though I'm against it). I can't see the difference between the picture above and pitting two dogs against each other.

I never hunted, although I used to go spearfishing a few years ago, but to me hunting (as spearfishing) would require at least three conditions:

1. A considerable degree of difficulty (no pompous tourists on pay-hunt safaris).
2. What you catch is edible and you actually intend to eat it.

and 3: it's not an endangered species.

[Andre]

I shoot animals and people most weekends :-)

Have you a backup gun in case) one angers and charges at you?

When I come over, I challenge you to a duel, fastest draw best focus wins.

[Andre]

You could include the Japs pretending to hunt down the last whales in the name of science to that list.

[Andre]

Over here we have rich toffs on their horses chasing a little fox through the countryside with a pack of wild hounds ready to rip it apart all in the name of sport and culture.

That's even "disgusting'er" than bullfighting (the latter at least takes balls and skill, even though I'm against it). I can't see the difference between the picture above and pitting two dogs against each other.

I never hunted, although I used to go spearfishing a few years ago, but to me hunting (as spearfishing) would require at least three conditions:

1. A considerable degree of difficulty (no pompous tourists on pay-hunt safaris).
2. What you catch is edible and you actually intend to eat it.

and 3: it's not an endangered species.

Were foxes classed as vermin over there?

They are here,you can kill em, they even have bounties at times in some areas.

[Master]

That was what the upper class twits use to justify fox hunting by labeling foxes vermin but that would not explain them dressing up like prats, destroying the countryside and using hungry hounds to chase the little fox.

[El Kabong]

You could include the Japs pretending to hunt down the last whales in the name of science to that list.

Also, if foxes are eating chickens and what not then you have to kill them. I don't suggest allowing a dog to rip them apart as at least in MY neck of the woods rabies is a very real, very dangerous threat to man and family pet alike. I've known people who have been attacked by rabid foxes.

[Andre]

Yeah same reason out here,in case of an outbreak.They walk the streets in the cities out here of a night loads of them we need to cull them.

[El Kabong]

Yeah same reason out here,in case of an outbreak.They walk the streets in the cities out here of a night loads of them we need to cull them.

My uncle has been hunting in Australia, in fact he has helped out a number of people down under with hunting deer. Which is his job really...he teaches hunters how to hunt in a way that keeps the deer populations happy and healthy and that helps keep a part of the ecosystem in balance.