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Re: Needless Cruelty
From the point of view of the suffering I think the method we are trying to ban is the one that causes the least suffering. It is animal killing animal (hound killing fox) which again is part of nature. How far removed is that from Staggeringman's friend with the falcon? The hounds don't eat the fox. That seems to be the main difference. But the fox is killed because foxes are killers.
At one time we had mice in the house (a long story resulting from an empty house next door in which food had been left by previous occupants.) As much as I don't like killing little furry things and I got a human trap and released the first couple of dozen up beyond Green Haworth, there came a time when "clobber the things with a heavy object" became preferable to them dying slowly and painfully from poisoning. It just had to be done or my kitchen would ahve been a no go area and I wouldn't have wanted to eat or sleep in the house.
Mice are vermin, even though we had pet hamsters at the time. Foxes are pretty and they have nice fluffy tails and they are a beautiful colour and I can really admire the looks of a fox but at the end of the day if it came down to a fox or my chickens I would class fox as vermin along with the mice.
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