Fox Hunting

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James Lowry 4N  English Coursework Mrs Ayling

Fox Hunting

Fox hunting has been around for less than two hundred and fifty years as a form of pleasurable entertainment for the higher classes, foxes used to be considered as worthless animals that weren’t worthy for the chase, they were thought as vermin in fact but after all the other animals like the deer, boar, hare and wolf were all killed mostly by the hunt, they had to find a replacement.  The foxes were fast and could go for long distances so were good for the chase but they went down their holes so hounds or terriers were introduced to get them out of their holes and so they were considered as a new challenge.  Nowadays this hunt or chase has been developed into a sport and is supported by the Countryside Alliance.  The fox has a well known reputation of being a cunning thief and scoundrel but most of these derive from fairytales and fables or from the people who support the sport but most of these are misconceptions.

“There is a passion for hunting deeply implanted in the human breast” this is the opinion of Charles Dickens praising hunting saying that is what man is meant to do, that man has a place for hunting in his heart but obviously views have changed a great deal.  Back then it was considered a noble thing to go on the hunt and was thought of as the civilised thing to do.  Nowadays some people still have the old way of thinking, that it is a noble sport and think of it as traditional but a lot of people have changed their views as they see it as cruelty to animals and think of it as a barbaric and archaic way of life.

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Should Fox hunting be made illegal?

 Many people have a strong opinion about this topic one way or another.  My opinion is yes I think fox hunting should be made illegal because it is a very blood-thirsty and inhumane of people who think of themselves as gentlemen to do such a barbaric thing and have the mordacity to call it a sport.  Their used to be many foxes in the countryside but now there is hardly any of the creatures left.  Yes the fox hunts for food but only to survive, some people use that as an excuse to ...

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