AIBU to let my kids take time off school to go hunt saboteuring?

[LoopyLoopsPussInBoots]

I (genuinely) used to take time off as a child to do this, and have very fond memories of laying wrong scents, protesting and generally causing a nuisance to the local hunt.

AIBU to let my kids do the same? The sport only happens a few days a year, so it is hard to fit in around school.

Totally agree with earthdog!

FWIW, I had no problem with hunting before the ban. I do have a problem with foxes, they are on my land and a bloody nuisance to my cats and all wildlife so we shoot them, if we can. As well as rabbits and grouse.

My kids hunt, as do I. It's a sport and our hunt is very law abiding and will not pursue a fox if we see one. Drag hunting all the way.

Countess -hunting is good for the fox population as a whole, as it means the fox will not be wiped out- a healthy controlled poulation is the ideal to be aimed for. Hounds also kill foxes wounded by poor shots. And yes I would be up for a High Street Hunt, defo :-)

Now that would be fun, earthdog!

Either hunting controls the fox population and is an effective method of pest control / dispatching the injured or sick OR foxes are very, very rarely killed when hunting.

You can't argue both ways.

Eh? Hunts are effective in season at culling sick animals but will never wipe out foxes due to the closed Season. Don't knock it- it works!!

I think a High Street Hunt would be brilliant.When people really see what happens any waning support will soon be extinguished....

Nah.. every uninformed anti I have ever taken out has loved it!! I think people do have a strange idea about how hound sports works, eg those who think the mounted followers usually see the kill & enjoy it, whereas usually the followers (riders) are several fields away and don't see anything! Many packs hold 'newcomer' days every season so we welcome the public.

[hbiscuit]

Right you are Earthdog!

How about the informed antis?

If people care about fox's being killed why don't they protest and sabotage the traps that set for them in every urban city. Far more fox's are killed in London in one month then the amount of fox's killed in hunts for a whole year before it was banned.

This poster IS involved in the fight to safeguard the urban fox, luluscadoo.

You prioritise school not Your tub thumping - reminiscing some right on tosh and getting your kids to skip school to reenact your glory days is wilful and daft. You know what you'd be better teaching them to stick in at school than piss about

Irony?

Irony is you reenacting your glory days with your kids.quite sad and wilfully oppositional as you know school unlikely to say yes to miss day school - purposefully obtuse

My kids aren't old enough to go to school. This is a wind up. Repeat: a wind up.

How quichey and ole skool.what a radge

Oooh what's a radge?