... to feel disgusted at fox-chasing toff-twits!

[counterpoint]

On my way to a local town for lunch today, we had to slow down and stop as a horse came galloping up towards us in the middle of the road. On his back sat a dandified twit who was looking for his hounds. In the nearby field some 100 (I kid you not) other starched twits sat on brainwashed horses with hungry hounds running amok. Traffic swayed and stopped as these twits had clearly lost the little sense they had and were dispersing all over the highway, horses looking dazed at being led among cars at great speed on slippery tarmac. Hounds confusedly sniffing all over the road and verges. How much had these twit-toffs drunk? It was not yet noon!

My friends in our car tried to calm me down saying it must be a drag when all of a sudden a poor defenseless fox jumped on the dry-stone wall looking wild-eyed as it tried to determine whether he was safer making a run for it across a busy road or turn back into a field of crazed, uncontrolled hounds and drunken (British?) twits. The fox froze and the driver of my car sped on as I screamed with panic for the predictable fate of the fox.

Why the f*ck is a supposedly civilized country allowing this kind of savagery to continue?

Presumably it's short for redcoatington

I have pet rats they're very loved but when we had wild rats in our house we dispatched them humanely after taking steps to make sure they could no longer get in the house. Wild rats I take no issue with even if we do occasionally spot them in the garden I think they're cute. If I kept chickens and they were bothered by a fox I'd take steps to prevent the foxes getting to them. In neither case would I set a pack of dogs on them! My JRT did actually kill a wild rat in the house but it was all over with one bite the animal wasn't chased for hours either.
I am country folk, I was born and raised there nature is brutal yes, but its not natural for packs of dogs followed by humans on horseback to hunt another animal for sport. Nature kills for survival I have no problem with people hunting for food as long as you eat what you kill and it's killed cleanly and without being terrorized I don't see the issue, that's nature the strong killing the weak for survival and not the strong killing the weak for shits and giggles.

“not really 'bestthings' - nobody is crying about the suffering of fish or mocking the clothes that people wear to do it - are they?”

Actually we laugh quite a lot at the coarse fishermen with their beds and their bivvys and their trolleys as they stagger past us of a morning......

And yes, I object to fishing too.....

LadyDeadpool that's a very balanced post.

Brilliant post LadyDeadPool

Hunting for sport is vile. I understand farmers etc have to protect their animals but hunting just for sport is barbaric. My DD is 18 and was able to vote for the first time in the last election. She asked for advice and asked who did DH and I vote for and we refused to tell her as her voting and opinion should be independent and not guided by us. She did her own research and told me that she wouldn’t tell me who she did vote for, but she would happily tell me who she didn’t vote for - Theresa May - as she wants to fully bring back fox hunting.

My dogs are ratters - they have to be. We live on a farm.

We allow the hunt across our land too and we hunt. Everyone who has horses round here hunts , always has and always will.

As farmers and riders, luckily we don't have much truck with bleeding heart townies and their hangers on .

Touch my kid on his pony out hunting though and I'll mow you down without so much as a blink.

Bleeding heart townies here we go again!

@Bernard46 so it's ok for your offspring to be safe but not the wildlife? You're nothing but a perverted bloodthirsty dragged up brat and your child will be too 👏🏻🖕🏻

Equivalent to toff twits, no?

@Bernard46 also "now you down" !? 😂 people like you are why I give so much to Sabs

Bernard what are your arguments for hunting?

TTCI

Calm down , dear! :)

And it's Mow dear, mow.

Anyone that gives to sabs is an idiot.
Do really you think they care about animals?
For them, hurting a horse would be fair game.
They just hate people they perceive as being richer than they are.

You should put your money where your over the top mouth is TTCI and sab.

Why don't you, I wonder??

Dull that's a really sweeping statement. I know people who sab & they'd rather jump off a cliff than deliberately hurt an animal

@Bernard46 because I'm pregnant you fucking loser I do however tell them where hunts are going to be and donate a significant amount of money to them

no, for them hurting a horse or endangering a rider would be par for the course. I don't think they give a fuck about foxy loxy.
Just my opinion that I have formed over the years.

@Bernard46 hit me where it hurts - my iphones autocorrect !!

Mustbemad. You ever been to a hunt?

As a sab or follower?

Go. Then come back and repeat the bull you've just posted lol.

Have you got me mixed with someone else Bertrand
"Not really what"?

TTCI - AFAIR pregnancy lasts 9 months. Plenty of time to sab before and after , eh?

Sounds like a lovely bit of inbreeding there Bernard.

Touch my kid on his pony out hunting though and I'll mow you down without so much as a blink.

Sounds to me like you're sending your 'kid' out as bait to excuse your eagerness to mow someone down. Isn't it better to keep your 'kid' away from your perceived danger in the first place?