Castle Farm
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This is a photo from a clip showing a hunt (Duke of Beaufort's Hunt) shooting hounds that are 'to old to hunt anymore. What a sick bunch of evil pricks these scum are.
Shooting Foxhounds.
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wanton dwarf
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They got a video of that on DM.
Sometimes I wish I had never seen such stuff. REALLY like dogs and to see this in the UK is very depressing.
Dog knows what is in his hand as well.
Sometimes I wish I had never seen such stuff. REALLY like dogs and to see this in the UK is very depressing.
Dog knows what is in his hand as well.
Castle Farm
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I saw the video. Dragged the poor dogs (4 ) and shot them. Sickening to watch
wanton dwarf
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TBH I really can't watch that. I know some things like this do happen but I don't understand it.
To think someone does that as a job FFS.
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- hereford
Thankfully old gun dogs retire in front of the aga.
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Any different to shooting an old dairy cow? Old horse? Pheasant?
- Location
- East Sussex
Yes, but I think you’d need to have had plenty of time with those species to understand and nearly impossible to explain.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Shoot all the fox hounds for me, if they want.
Its breeding more of the effing things, which is the bigger problem.
Its breeding more of the effing things, which is the bigger problem.
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
I don't like fox hunting on horse back because they are a nuisance, I feel differently about the beagles on foot who hunt the moors.
But regarding the dogs, they are pack animals, who love their lives & jobs, they are now too slow, so bang.
Horrible activity though.
betweenthelines
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- southwest
What else does anyone expect of people who's idea of fun is to hunt an animal to death?
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- South wales
It’s not nice to see but you can’t very well go up in arms over it cows /sheep, racehorses are shot everyday for the same reason
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- roe valley
I took one to the vet to get put down, never again.... the old girl knew. I've put a few dogs down in my time. It's a thing that stays with me a day or two afterwards, but I always make sure they never see it coming. There's nothing like a dog to break your heart.
toquark
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I’ve never been more miserable than when having had to put a good dog to sleep. I still feel the loss of dogs keenly, sometimes years later.
It’s not nice to watch, and it was foolish to be allowed to be filmed, but if you’re in the business of killing animals for a living which many of us are, then you have to tread very carefully when criticising others who do the same.
It’s not nice to watch, and it was foolish to be allowed to be filmed, but if you’re in the business of killing animals for a living which many of us are, then you have to tread very carefully when criticising others who do the same.
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- South wales
You put that better than I did
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- Montgomeryshire
I assume most of the ‘anti’ posters on this thread have never actually met a kennel huntsman? Every one I’ve known treats their hounds almost better than their own family. At the end of their life, those hounds aren’t left to fester, they are pts by the person they know, in an environment they know.
Anyone that knows the slightest bit about foxhounds will appreciate that they are nothing like the gun dog that can live his days out in front of the Aga. They are bred for a job, and they live and breathe it. They certainly aren’t house dogs, and wouldn’t be happy doing anything other than the job they’re bred & trained for.
Incidentally, I was once tasked with taking my girlfriend’s (Lurcher x Collie) dog to visit the kennel huntsman for a similar job. He was to go to the kennels as it was a place he always loved. He died from a single shot, the huntsman having a soft hand under his jaw, and still wagging his tail when he went. It was a far kinder end than a visit to the vets’ would ever have been. And yes, that girlfriend became the current Mrs NeilO, and we still hold the same values.
Anyone that knows the slightest bit about foxhounds will appreciate that they are nothing like the gun dog that can live his days out in front of the Aga. They are bred for a job, and they live and breathe it. They certainly aren’t house dogs, and wouldn’t be happy doing anything other than the job they’re bred & trained for.
Incidentally, I was once tasked with taking my girlfriend’s (Lurcher x Collie) dog to visit the kennel huntsman for a similar job. He was to go to the kennels as it was a place he always loved. He died from a single shot, the huntsman having a soft hand under his jaw, and still wagging his tail when he went. It was a far kinder end than a visit to the vets’ would ever have been. And yes, that girlfriend became the current Mrs NeilO, and we still hold the same values.
Doing it for the kids
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exactly.
its not nice and not for everyone but its not a pet dog. They are daft though doing these things in the open, the fall out will be huge as usual