Some people will always do as they choose no matter what ... that's why we have laws.
How many people know folk who use their phone while driving, break the speed limit, drive after drinking? Do you ('you' in general ... not aimed at anyone in particular) report them every time?
I hold no brief for fox hunting ... although I used to keep horses and ride I chose not to hunt although as I've spent much of my life in the countryside lots of people I know, including members of my family, have done so.
The hunt where I lived was a harrier pack and I felt that hunting hares could not be justified either by their numbers or the damage they did. If they needed to be culled I believed they should be shot and eaten ... not hunted and wasted. Members of my farming family now refuse to shoot hares as their numbers are in decline.
When I had a smallholding we, and our neighbours, were losing a lot of 'free-range' poultry to several foxes living and breeding nearby. Our neighbour had the earths gassed .... he could've shot the adults but the risk of shooting a lactating vixen above ground and having the cubs starve to death was too great, so the whole family was gassed and wiped out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Certainly feel sorry for the hounds, but they have a very short life span anyway. As soon as they are past their best, they’re shot, and I’ve heard, popped into the cauldron with the farm casualty animals, and dished up to the rest of the pack.
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How many people know folk who use their phone while driving, break the speed limit, drive after drinking? Do you ('you' in general ... not aimed at anyone in particular) report them every time?
I hold no brief for fox hunting ... although I used to keep horses and ride I chose not to hunt although as I've spent much of my life in the countryside lots of people I know, including members of my family, have done so.
The hunt where I lived was a harrier pack and I felt that hunting hares could not be justified either by their numbers or the damage they did. If they needed to be culled I believed they should be shot and eaten ... not hunted and wasted. Members of my farming family now refuse to shoot hares as their numbers are in decline.
When I had a smallholding we, and our neighbours, were losing a lot of 'free-range' poultry to several foxes living and breeding nearby. Our neighbour had the earths gassed .... he could've shot the adults but the risk of shooting a lactating vixen above ground and having the cubs starve to death was too great, so the whole family was gassed and wiped out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.