Tony Bryer wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:28:28 +0100 Roger Chapman wrote :
I know about the hunting ban with horse/dogs, but are you allowed
to capture and/or shoot a fox if its on your land?
Foxes are vermin and can be shot on sight subject to the normal
rules on discharging firearms.

But isn't it the case than in hunting areas, shooting foxes is viewed
as bad form?

don't think so.


Local landowner does both.

He snares foxes and dispatches them with a 12 bore through the back of
the head.

He also allows the local horsey set to rush around chasing them as well.

With dogs too. The law seems to have had zero effect. Oh I expect
someone has trailed a dead fox for the hounds to follow, but if they
break off and chase a live one, what can one do? :-)

There are almost no police within miles, and certainly none with the
time or inclination to enforce a law none of them believe in anyway.

As long as some anti-hunting mob don't turn up, who gives a shit?
everyone's lost chickens and pheasant chicks, and that's lost money, and
a lot of inhumane killing by foxes.


I told em to say that they were all pagans, and hunting foxes was part
of their culture, and if Jews and Muslims get away with cutting animals
throats to make meat, then they should say that chasing foxes with dogs
is part of their cultural and religious heritage..too..

Anyway, the racist government is now out of office, so that one will get
quietly repealed.