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I'm afraid that fish would need to get a whole lot more charismatic before many people take an interest in their plight. A 'nice cuddly' mammal like a fox (how graceful, how proud, how cute) is much more apt to get attention in this respect.
The 'nice cuddly' animal that during lambing time will kill all the lambs in a field, and maybe eat one.
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Hello Moo, My Mum comes from down your way, she grew up in Crediton and now lives in Sydney. I spent a few days in Devon visiting relatives on their farms, walking on Dartmoore and eating endless blackbury and apple cumbles in October and it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. Shame about the beer though :)
Don't listen to Giles, stick to the imported beer. :) I live in Tiverton, not that far away from Crediton, and certainly within the UK I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I don't get much chance for it anymore, but I used to love going out on Dartmoor and hiking around. You can never tread in too much donkey shit. I have also had the humble privallege of driving through the Exe Valley to get work daily along the old Tiverton-Exeter road, and get to see some of the most beautiful countryside possible. It is like travelling through Middle Earth. We could all get there quicker by using the motorway but more and more people are choosing to take the scenic roads while we still can. If you ever get the chance come down and walk along the Grand Western Canal[^] till the sun goes down. It is amazing to think this goes right through the middle of some the biggest market towns in the area and yet feels like it is hundreds of miles from anywhere. I :love: Devon. :-D
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If you think that banning the practise of allowing people to chase foxes with a pack of dogs with the sole purpose of hoping to see them torn to pieces "for fun" is going to somehow wreck the countryside then you need to take a reality check Giles. I hope that you will be able to continue chasing animals off your land and agree to even think of criminalising you for this is madness, but I will be very pleased when hunting foxes with dogs is consigned to the dustbin of history along with other such barbaric pursuits as badger baiting and cock fighting.
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These people have never have seen a fox in their towns and cities, only the TV. I saw one returning from the pub one evening (me, not the fox) and the poor thing seemed to be rotting yet it was still very much alive. It was disgusting. If I had a gun with me I would have killed it out of mercy. If it had a human owner they would be imprisoned and banned from keeping animals for life for allowing that to happen. The best not-too-graphic picture I could find[^] When we take away an animals predators we have a duty to protect it from overpopulation - it was our fault to start with so we should damned well take responsibility for the problem to stop it getting any worse. Most people don't understand the meaning of humane - their views of animals come from nature shows where the fluffly little foxes and rabbits play hide-and-seek in the meadows and the cameras look away when the kills are made like staged wrestling on WWE Smackdown. Banning hunting with dogs was and still is a moral class war. No one really cared about the animals (on either side). As it has been mentioned, the prey is very rarely alive when the dogs start to rip it apart - nature doesn't hang around when it is time to kill something. Shooting them to control numbers is only slighlty more humane than setting traps to break their legs and starve them to death. I wish I was joking, but I would have thought with all the coverage the Iraq Liberation War has had in the news these morally superior voters would have seen that even the best trained soldiers in the world do not always kill cleanly with one shot. Death can takes days. And they have much more advanced technology than farmers can buy in the UK. X|
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
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Well done!
MOO!!
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Thank you for your kind comments. Don't drink the beer - stick to the cider!
MOO!!
