- Location
- Aberdeenshire
If the foxes were not dug and destroyed there would be no justification for chasing the pests. Finishing what you've begun is how vermin is controlled. Death above or below ground is the purpose of hunting. I've said it before and I'll say it again foxes have have no idea there are folk enjoying hunting or enjoying their deaths. Foxes are ambush predators given to short bursts of energy to procure prey but are evolved to have stamina to try to evade being preyed upon. Death by hound or hounds is the closest thing a fox gets to a natural death apart from starvation in old age or scratching themselves to death with mange. I've also said it before I've no interest in hunting foxes with hounds because I'm a rifle man (can't stand nags, though my wife loves them and bred them) and my land lends itself to rifle work. If I had 4,000/40,000 acres of rough fell/moor largely inaccessible to anything other than my ewes with their lambs and hounds I would elect another more efficient method of control. Hounds.
There is a lot of associating hunting with toffs and their mounts, far more foxes are controlled by foot packs and not solely for the purpose of protecting mans greed or avarice for sport or farming gain. Hunting in The Lakes served to protect man's interests and also to preserve precious stocks of upland nesting waders. Damning hunting without questioning the gains made by the death of a few for the greater good of many is an act of sentiment not sentience. Damning the acts that other mens' conscience accepts as wholesome because you believe otherwise is egocentric and unwholesome.
We could always take the pleasure aspect away and just poison them with bait dropped by aeroplane...
There is a lot of associating hunting with toffs and their mounts, far more foxes are controlled by foot packs and not solely for the purpose of protecting mans greed or avarice for sport or farming gain. Hunting in The Lakes served to protect man's interests and also to preserve precious stocks of upland nesting waders. Damning hunting without questioning the gains made by the death of a few for the greater good of many is an act of sentiment not sentience. Damning the acts that other mens' conscience accepts as wholesome because you believe otherwise is egocentric and unwholesome.
We could always take the pleasure aspect away and just poison them with bait dropped by aeroplane...