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National Trust and fox hunting
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On July 10, the League Against Cruel Sports launched a campaign calling on the National Trust to end hunting on its land.
If like others, you are shocked to read that hunting continues, come along to one of the roadshows and find out how you can play your part in the National Trust AGM on October 30.
Staff, volunteers and the League's mascot, Vinny the fox, will be there to answer any questions you have.
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Whilst there is a lot of good that the National Trust do - this is one thing that they fall short on and really must change. It's worth nothing that by being a member, you can vote in the AGM about any views that you may have on anything they do or don't do..
I am against hunting with hounds or other animals for larger mammals but I am for the more clinical vermin hunting with terriers. If you've seen a terrier catch and dispatch a rat or rabbit without training just pure instinct you'll see it's not like fix hunting. Fox hunting is detecting and hunting a fox for some time. It's not quick and as long as there's legal hunts chasing scent trails going on there's always going to be foxes and indeed pets killed. IMHO those "accidents " mean that chasing a scent trail form of hunting with hounds cannot happen!
I however have serious issues with the league and cannot support anything they call for. We're not NT members but would never have voted with the league if I had been a member. We need grown ups to stop this. The league and Boris certainly don't count in this regards.
I have some sympathy with the NT though. They rely on the sort of people who support hunting not only for funds but also for volunteers. They could make a stand, but it would cost them dear, not only financially. It would be better if the law was clear and it was just banned.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
If you hunt because you enjoy seeing an animal torn to bits then you have mental health issues.
There are very sick people in the world, and unfortunately they seem to make the rules.
Maybe if I had to dispatch an animal I would think differently. Who knows.
But take that principle and turn it into 'sport' and you get:
1. People breeding the birds specifically to shoot them.
2. People deciding that birds that don't naturally live here would be better 'sport' because they are bigger, so then breeding those in battery farm conditions and releasing them into the countryside so they can shoot them.
3. An influx of vermin such as foxes attracted to the sudden increase in the food supply.
4. Game keepers killing every other living creature in the vicinity that might like to eat some of the massive surplus of prey animals they've bred and released into the countryside.
5. An influx of a different sort of vermin - people who don't live within 300 miles turning up in droves in order to pay money to be allowed to shoot birds that were never going to be a threat to their food supply.
6. A surplus of dead birds that no one wants to eat being dumped in landfill.
7. People being given licenses for firearms for 'sport' that they then use to shoot complete strangers out walking their dogs one evening.
Yes, it's a stretch to link fox hunting to the Plymouth shootings. But it is connected, however tenuously.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”