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Well I am going to come at this from a hunter’s point of view.
I have been involved in hunting of game for the past 15 years. We have a small club but manage to rear 1200 pheasant’s and over 500 ducks a year.
At any stage of rearing these birds a fox gets into the release pins that these birds are kept in, the results would be disastrous.
Now the bloodspots lobby will tell you that the fox is only killing to eat and survive. This is not so. A fox will get into a pin and kill for sport. When we started first releasing birds into the wild, we had the misfortune of a fox killing over 20 birds out of a hundred. This was a major blow to us at the time because we were only starting to rear birds. This is not an isolated example. If you ever talk to any gamekeeper they will all tell you of this happening to them at some stage of their career.
Now from a humane point of view, there are not many people involved in hunting who enjoy seeing an animal suffer, and those who do should have no part in the sport.
The majority of hunters will tell you it is the chase not the kill that they enjoy. This I can understand.
I use a lamp to hunt foxes. It is an effective way to hunt foxes but no means easy.
Foxes are by no means a dumb animal. They are very good at evading and once a fox has come into contact with a lamp they sure as hell know the next time what it means and will not hang about.
Anyone hunting with hounds or involved with hounds will know that you will hear them long before the hunt begins; they are a noisy lot and tend to bark a lot.
Again any fox with a single brain cell will be on the move or gone to ground at the very sound of the hounds.
I will rely on personal experience on this. I have on more than once seen foxes head to ground long before the hounds have even been taken out from their transport trailers.
A few years ago while watching the hunt go through my uncles lands we heard the hunts men laughing their heads off. When we looked to see what was so funny, we saw a fox trotting up through the horses with not a care in the world. Where were the hounds???? They were half a mile the other direction.
Sure all blood sports are cruel be it from shooting to fishing.
Should it be banned, definitely not .
When it comes to the anti blood sports lobby I would take what they say lightly, a lot of these people hold animal welfare above human welfare.
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its evolution baby
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