Today I am presenting myself to you all to give my views on how strongly I believe that fox hunting should be banned.

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Fox-Hunting

Today I am presenting myself to you all to give my views on how strongly I believe that fox hunting should be banned.

The traditional fox hunt has normally about seven people, on horses, and about eight to sixteen hounds. Trained from birth, these hound dogs are trained to kill other animals in a horrific and brutal way.

If a fox is seen during the hunting trip, the lead huntsman blows the hunters horn and the dogs chase the fox. The hunters follow not far behind on horseback. The fox is sometimes chased for hours. Occasionally the fox may retreat to an abandoned badger or fox hole, but if that happens they are smoked out or dug out, and then thrown to the viscous teeth. If the fox doesn’t manage to escape death for a few minutes more, and doesn’t find a hole, it has to carry on going. When it is too weak to run away anymore, the hounds go and basically rip the terrified fox into pieces.  

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Not only is fox-hunting a cold-blooded and cruelly connected sport, it is also seen as a perfectly natural sport! Tell me if I’m wrong but isn’t sport meant to be fun? Killing animals… I can not see how that can be fun.. I certainly couldn’t gain any pleasure from killing somewhat perfectly innocent creatures.

Ok, yes some people such as farmers say that foxes are pests and that they should be either culled, or even completely wiped out. Well if we do cull them, how can we tell which foxes are the ‘pests’, the ones that do kill about an ...

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