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Falcon
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by Falcon » Tue May 23, 2017 1:13 pm
dermotdermot wrote:Not so long ago I noticed a large fox carrying something a cross my front lawn. On investigation I found the said fox at the top of a stairwell at the side of my house. On seeing me, he fled back down the stairs towards me and jumped over a fence to my right, leaving it's 'cargo' at the top of the stairwell. This turned out to be a rather plump squirrel. Of course it was dead, but not just dead. It had no head. The fox had eaten the head in its entirety.
Looking into this, I discovered that a fox will have a particular liking for eating the heads and faces of other species. This is why you have incidents of foxes creeping into houses and attacking tiny babies. They won't attempt to eat them whole, just bite a chunk out of their face.
Forensic science is also somewhat hampered by the fox. A missing body will become unrecognisable after a very short time, not by decomposition, but by the simple fact that the fox has found it first and..... well need I go further?
Such lovely little creatures.
I think you're missing the point. Nobody is saying that foxes aren't vermin. However, foxes are just animals acting on instinct. We are humans who have access to humane ways of killing these pests yet in a traditional hunt we essentially torture another living creature for sport. As a species we should be above this.
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Rowls
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by Rowls » Tue May 23, 2017 1:32 pm
AndrewJB wrote: ideological crusade
BINGO!!!!
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northernpowerhouse
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by northernpowerhouse » Tue May 23, 2017 2:33 pm
Anyone who gets pleasure from torturing animals has psychological problems. If you caught your child tearing an animal apart you'd take them to a therapist. I don't see why it should be any different for adults.
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dsr
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by dsr » Tue May 23, 2017 2:55 pm
northernpowerhouse wrote:Anyone who gets pleasure from torturing animals has psychological problems. If you caught your child tearing an animal apart you'd take them to a therapist. I don't see why it should be any different for adults.
I think you're deliberately misunderstanding. The hounds do the tearing apart. The riders are out for a ride. They're in the same position as cat owners, in fact; they may be facilitating the tearing apart of smaller animals, but you wouldn't say they need psychoanalysis. Or would you?