Foxes face horrible death when hunted by hounds
SO Roger Helmer (Derby Telegraph, July 7) says that hunting with hounds is the only culling method that doesn't leave the fox to a slow death.
Strange isn't it – one would think that being chased for miles over rough terrain until you are on the point of exhaustion and then being torn to pieces alive by dogs was a slow and horrible death. But according to Roger this is the humane way.
If this is Tory logic, God help us now they are in Downing Street.
Philip Garner,
Queens Drive
Littleover
3 Comments
by Roger_S, Derby
Monday, July 19 2010, 10:52PM
“Clearly Norman you are speaking from the experience of a hunter from the SE. The fox might just get up to speed before it hits the Gatwick line or finds itself in the middle of Crawley. Up here the countryside is slightly more vast than your little county and I have witnessed a fox being chased for a half hour stretch (that's a pretty serious distance). The hounds always get the hind quarters first so death is hardly instantaneous. Phil may have used emotive language but actually he summed it up rather well in my view.”
by Norman Bryant, west sussex
Sunday, July 18 2010, 9:06PM
“Well Phil, you obviously have not been hunting, the exhausted fox, not very often, if at all, torn to bits, maybe but it is long dead before that happens, try not to use such emotive language when you don't know what you are talking about.”
by Jean Bird, Leicestershire
Sunday, July 18 2010, 2:59PM
“I have had conversations and correspondence with Mr Helmer on several occasions. He is firmly in the camp of "animal abusers". He says he is concerned for animals, well I wouldn't trust him to help ANY animal at all!”