“Douglas's assertion is simply untrue and he knows it is.

I have today written him the following letter:

Dear Douglas,

I am writing to complain about a blatant lie that you included in your recent letter to the Express and Echo.

In this letter you make the following claim:

"As for the Hunting Act being 'badly drafted and flawed', this is an effective piece of legislation which is supported by the vast majority of the public who do not want to turn the clock back to cruelty.

In fact, 75 per cent support the Hunting Act and the only people who criticise it are the small minority whose barbaric sport has been resigned to the history books."

You know perfectly well that this is not true. I refer you to POWA's criticism of the Hunting Act which you are very well aware of. POWA clearly state "In truth, the Hunting Act is indeed flawed" If you want to read more on POWA's criticism of the Hunting Act then please read here: www.powa.org.uk/reform.html although I am quite sure you already have.

Are you seriously suggesting that POWA are "small minority whose barbaric sport has been resigned to the history books"?

Peter Bunce from POWA has also gone on record supporting my use of dogs to flush out wild deer as a 'harmless activity' and clearly stated that the law against it is an 'anomaly' which should not be enforced.

The CPS have stated in court that the Hunting Act is 'wholly unworkable' and 'virtually unenforceable'.

There have been numerous criticism of the law from the Hunt Saboteur's Association.

Douglas, the Hunting issue is a controversial one which obviously needs debating. However that debate is not well served by you writing to the press with deliberate lies.

If you have a shred of honesty or self respect you would write to the Express and Echo apologising.

Your attempt to cover up the trenchant criticism of the Hunting Act from people within the anti hunt movement is dishonest and pathetic in equal measure.


Yours sincerely


Giles Bradshaw
Rose Ash
Devon

cc James Barrington, POWA, Exeter Express and Echo”

“I always find the methods used by hunters to justify their "hobby" laughable. Firstly it is a method of controlling stock (when, in reality, there are much more humane and less stressful methods to do this, if it is necessary) and then we hear that it isn't the hunters who are hunting, its the hounds. Clearly those on horseback are just following along for the ride. The point, though, is that the hounds are bred by the Hunts, so why not stop breeding them? I can't see why it would stop you riding around the countryside if you didn't have hounds with you.

Why don't hunts just admit that they like killing things, rather than hide behind flimsy excuses? If they didn't like killing things, then why isn't drag hunting so popular?”

“Douglas Batchelor
Chief Executive, League Against Cruel Sports quotas¿
¿The comparison between fox hunting and packs of wolves in the countryside is also laughable. Is he so out of touch with the countryside that he has failed to notice we don't actually have wolves in this country? Even if we did there is a huge difference between an animal's natural behavior in the wild and humans training animals to hunt and kill in this way for human pleasure and entertainment.¿

This point seems to qualify Mr. Douglas Batchelor in the art of lunacy the fact is, hounds hunting, is a natural behavior, hounds are not trained by humans to hunt it is already built in, any one seeing a dog chase a ball can see this natural behavior.
Many working dogs are trained by this fact of nature within. The police use dogs to trace drugs for instance the dag is rewarded by a toy or ball. The dog utilizes its natural behavior for reward.
Hound naturally hunt this is why the law against hunting is ridicules. How then can we explain to a hound that it should not hunt?

Regards

Maxwell Ward Consultant”