[WillowTheWhisp]

Are you personally aquainted with "most of the people who hunt foxes" ? Even with hunting banned foxes will have to be killed. Foxes kill other creatures. They kill farm creatures. Farmers are not expected to just sit there and let them so they will shoot foxes. Most foxes do not die as quickly when shot. They suffer a slow lingering painful death. Have you seen an animal die from a gunshot wound? Have you seen a fox killed by hounds? If you can answer yes to both questions then I cannot believe you could consider the former to be preferable.

You ask who was put on the earth first according to the Bible. Actually I think, if you check, you'll find it was the vegetables.

I don't approve of unnecessary cruelty to animals but the very nature of nature is that animals kill other animals either to eat or to safeguard their young. In the case of humans we sometimes do it to safeguard other animals.