Bizarre to deny cruelty
Much correspondence has appeared in the Your Say columns with regard to so-called hunting and hunt legislation.
People on horseback with packs of dogs, others in all sorts of vehicles, all chasing their quarry about the countryside with a view to killing it, is barbarity inflicted upon wildlife for enjoyment and fun.
Ade Clarke (March 3) boasted 75,000 days of so-called hunting and killing of wildlife since legislation was introduced, as though it was something to be proud of. It is incomprehensible.
What other reasons can be given for 75,000 days of chasing, wanting to kill and, indeed, killing wildlife, other than it is done for enjoyment and fun?
Gary Ballinger (March 6) reckons it's "class war", but I wonder how many people believe hunting should be stopped, simply because it is cruel. Yet bizarrely, the so-called hunts deny any cruelty whatsoever.
In my opinion, the so-called accidents, along with the hunts' insistence that their cruel methods should continue, will eventually bring about their own complete and utter demise.
D Roberts
Bridgwater
Somerset
3 Comments
by boredwivitall, Bath
Friday, March 20 2009, 4:05PM
“You entirely avoided the point of the letter writer, Mr Henry. It's the unnerving and chilling realisation that these ruddy-faced blood-lusters get so turned-on by their perversions that sickens ordinary folk.
Yes, some alternative methods are repulsive, but there ARE more humane methods, it just needs the will to carry them out.
To ever enjoy the death of anyone or anything, to actually feel your heart pound with the joy of it, is to possess something revolting indeed within one's heart.”
by Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity), Somersetshire
Wednesday, March 18 2009, 11:38AM
“:| "Cruel methods". . Warfarin given to rats so they slowly bleed to death internally. . Sticky mats to catch rats that become resistant to rat poison, then incinerating them alive. . How rats must wish they could have a quick death by a Jack Russell. .
The lead hound ensures the very speedy death of the fox particularly if it's sickly.
But some people clearly find happiness in their blissful ignorance.”
by Jerry Lewis, Dorset
Monday, March 16 2009, 5:17PM
“Well said D Roberts. I have to agree with you. They are a sad bunch aren't they.”