To not want my Grandchild to hunt?

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I am very much into animal rescue and hate to see cruelty against humans AND animals. DIL is pregnant with my 1st Grandchild which I'm obviously very excited about, I texted her today to ask how she was and how DS and 'bump' are and she said she was fine...etc.. and then excited tells me that her Nephew aged just a month into his 8th year is going out on his first hunt . Her family are country people and my DS will be moving to the country once GC comes along. I really hate the thought of any child going hunting especially my GC because I think it's not something a child should see nor be encouraged to take part in. My DIL knows my feelings on animal cruelty and feel upset that she should mention 'the hunt' to me (in an excited-so proud of DN way).

I'll tell you this much Can't you've provided a bit of amusement on a boring day, the highlight of which has been mucking out three stables in slow motion without doing the wet bits.

July
Based on your posts you would be more accepting of an opinion from someone who DOES know about hunting.... yes? Or would you find that a bit of a spanner in the works re: your comment (Predictably) there is so much ignorance (and arrogance) on this thread, from posters who clearly know nothing about hunting

You should definitely never let the people who live in your computer anywhere near your animals, that never ends well .

I'll tell you this much Can't you've provided a bit of amusement on a boring day

Backtracking now????? Attempting a new 'I couldn't care less' approach? Pretending you have not copped a strop??

I would be gutted if my future grandchildren were to go hunting.

Just popping a head up to remind all of our guidelines - we love a good, clean debate.

And yes please, make mine a

If we're about the riding/socializing then there wouldn't need to be a fox to kill/chase.

As someone up thread said, just own it.

Hunting is certainly a class thing here, but it goes the other way. Is bogans on utes and quads.

Fishing is boring, that's why I don't do it. Deep Sea fishing looks OK but I suspect that is the thrill of chase again.

Can't - I'll 'accept' anyone's opinion.

But as I think I've indicated, I do find some of the fantastical ideas about imaginary huntspeople really ridiculous (and they are inevitable on threads about hunting). I also find it interesting and bizarre that people who might otherwise be fairly cautious and circumspect about commenting on activities (and he thoughts and feelings of people who do them) when they clearly know nothing about those activities/people, seem to feel free to spout very obviously fantastical ideas about what goes on in relation to hunting.

Yes, I'm interested in thoughts and opinions from people who know hunting.
That doesn't mean I'll automatically agree with them.

I don't see anything on this thread as 'a spanner in the works' re. any comment I've made.

would a RoboFox do it for you, Morloth? Assuming one could be made that hounds would chase in preference to a real fox?

(This is a theoretical question - I'm not suggesting it as a practical option!).

Riding/socializing types?

OK, the verdict seems to be that drag hunts are a bit meh - so how about my imaginary RoboFox? Behaves & smells exactly like the real thing, so your experience is identical, except that at the end someone just retrieves it, wipes the dog slobber off it & switches it to stand-by, ready for next time, whilst chucking the hounds a doggy treat each?

when they clearly know nothing about those activities/people

Not much to know TBH July
Fox hunting involves the hunting down and killing of a wild animal. For sport. Usually involves additional dubious practices of bagging, feeding foxes to keep them around for hunting, blocking earths and digging out.

The end.

OP can't do anything- it is up to the parents.

Cheese

And yet here you are posting

People do care... on both sides. What is your point?

GemmaPuddledDuck - Our local hunt swapped dogs for an owl after the ban so they could still hunt foxes within the law

OK, I know there's a whole political debate going on here, but really - hunting with an owl? Really? How does that work? I've never heard of hunting foxes with owls. Is that really a thing?

ravenAK - I would love to drive a Robofox! misses point

Raven I don't fox hunt at all. The only foxes I have killed are considered feral pests to be exterminated along with cats, rabbits and wild dogs. We do it with baits and guns.

The hunting I enjoy involves tracking something down to shoot it and eat it and with roos to skin them.

And it is fun. I also enjoy riding but don't actually put the 2 together.

I want to see how it performs against owls....

I think I had an altogether different upbringing to everyone on this thread.

Well it's not your kid, so you can like or dislike all you want - not your business.

I can just imagine that poor owls face as it flies towards Robofox... What? Wait. No. They didn't...

As an exemption to the Hunting Act, hunts can still hunt down and kill foxes if hounds are used to flush out a fox for a bird of prey to kill. That said, an owl????

So if you want rid of a fox, because it's a pest, you just shoot it, Morloth?

It definitely wouldn't be easier to get together 40 or so of your mates & several hundred £k of horseflesh & spend an afternoon chasing the wee blighter?

Lol, absolutely not.

Which is why I can't understand why the fox hunters won't admit to the bloodlust.

What is the problem with saying it like it is?

We wouldn't risk horses to kill foxes.

But that is more down to the terrain than anything.

You don't have to shoot a motorbike if it blows a tyre.

I guess that as for 'saying it like it is', people can only speak for themselves...
So if you get off on killing things, that's for you to 'own'.

It's certainly not like that for everyone.

ravenAK - are you happier for foxes/vermin just to be shot that for a load of horsey types to have a day out? If so, why? Genuine question.