Hunting plumbs depths of cruelty
FURTHER to the story Man put cat in dryer and microwave, Echo, October 9, can you sink any lower?
Well, yes you can. You can dress up in expensive fancy clothes, get on a very expensive horse, join a some fellow toffs likewise equipped, set a pack of dogs on a furry animal, not much bigger than the cat, chase it for an hour or so across country and then let the dogs tear it to pieces. All for fun.
Or you can do the same to a magnificent red deer stag; chase him till he can go no further and, with the terrified, exhausted animal surrounded by dogs baying for blood, shoot him. All in the name of fun.
And of course by then, ruined by stress, his meat will be useless. But all good fun, and his head will look fine on someone's wall. That low enough?
J S Stuart
Regent Street, Exeter
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by Baby in a pram, My Pram
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 11:28PM
“I am far more concerned about packs of hounds running amok around me, or the chance of some hunts"man" coming up and rubbing my face in the blood of a fox...than a fox.
They are absolute perverts to get their thrills from chasing an animal to exhaustion. God knows what they get up to at home.
Goo goo.”
by old git, Powderham
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 4:04PM
“TRDP - I've heard of taking the 'p' but not of offering it!
TROG!”
by Dr Pedant, Devon
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 1:02PM
“TRDP - I think you let a 'p' off the beginning of the fourth word in your last post.”
by misterkipling, Exeter
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 11:06AM
“J S Stuart is right, we should bring back fox hunting and stag chasing
I had forgotten how much fun it was until he suggests we can dress up and buy horses etc
Thanks for suggesting that, until now i have been chasing foxes in my offroader, but I get the highest score on the A roads when it comes to stags”
by old git, Powderham
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 7:46AM
“An article about fox hunting has been diverted to battery chickens, babies in prams and spelling. My work is done........”
by The Real Dr Pedantic, Heavitree
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 1:34AM
“Dr Pedant, i refer you to my earlier post about stupid comments.”
by Dr Pedant, Devon
Monday, October 18 2010, 9:23PM
“No, Even More Pedantic, I was right the first time. We are being over-run by battery hens and free-range chickens and if we don't let the foxes have their heads we will all soon be buried alive in guano and feathers, if we haven't all died of salmonella by then. Edwina Currie warned us of this years ago, but did anyone listen?”
by Jerky Busgrumble, Squitchey Lane
Monday, October 18 2010, 9:16PM
“What?! Derek JW has been leaving his baby in a pram unattended, but now he's not going to because he's afraid of urban foxes!”
by even more pedantic, Exeter
Monday, October 18 2010, 8:46PM
“Dr.Pedant - far from me to criticise but surely you are referring to a chicken coop. A chicken coup (short for coup d'état) would refer to is the sudden, illegal deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment¿typically the military¿to replace the deposed government with another body; either civil or military ...... but rarely poultry.”
by penn71, exeter
Monday, October 18 2010, 7:49PM
“Barry ¿ if you are stupid enough to have an unsecured chicken coup then you¿re the one who is at fault.
Derek ¿ what a silly comment about not leaving a baby because of foxes. I would imagine you are more likely to win the lottery.
All of these hunt people are sub-normal cowards. I mean, what sort of person wants to hunt and kill a small terrified animal. I am sure that if you challenged one of them to fisticuffs they would run a mile. They need to sit on a horse for protection even against a little fox.”