[pendy]

We seem to have strayed a bit on this one - however, back to A-B's original. Foxes are killed quickly at a hunt - the first hound in goes for the throat, so it is fierce but fast. Shooting foxes is dicey - it is almost impossible to get a clean kill, and the animal goes off wounded and usually dies of septicaemia, not a nice way to go.

However, of course we can offend our indigenous population in country areas, by banning hunting on the grounds of cruelty, but we cannot under any circumstances offend our ethnic minorities.

Good idea, Tealeaf - see you Boxing Day, will borrow a horse and my daughter's pink jacket!


I not only would kill my own, I have done so - rabbits and pheasants, and even on a few occasions, a chicken (on my uncle's farm in Ireland, mostly).