"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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True, but as it's difficult, to say the least, to get a certificate for a
rifle for use in the open, I have a problem if someone tries to kill
foxes
with a shotgun having come across one that had just died having been
badly
wounded in the hind legs. It must have starved to death in agony over
some
weeks.


You may have a problem with it, but the LACS, the Labour Animal Welfare
Group, and the majority of MPs do not. They wish to ban hunting with dogs,
and only hunting with dogs. Clearly other methods of control are by
definition less cruel because if they were more cruel the Government would
be breaking its own rules used to test the need for a ban based on cruelty
and utility. If there were no utility in killing foxes then killing foxes
would be banned as is killing badgers, if other methods of killing are more
cruel than hunting with dogs then these would have been considered for
bans - they were not.

I am therefore quite content to use snares and shotgun to control foxes and
I'm confident that it's no more cruel than necessary.

Michael Saunby