[lettie]

Whether hunting with dogs is banned or not, farmers will still have to cull foxes and hare. These creatures although nice to look at are vermin. They ruin crops and kill other livestock. A fox will not just pick off one hen out of a coop. It will kill all of them and take just one (this has happened to a mate of mine on a couple of occasions). When our countryside is overrun by wild rabbits, hares and foxes, most of our crops being eaten by them and a national shortage of eggs meaning we have to import therefore bear the expense of over inflated prices, who will be responsible. I think the ways of the countryside are best left to those who understand them.