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Husband is insistent on joining trail hunt tomorrow

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FairViewRosie25 · 22/12/2025 22:30

Not happy. I know they trail hunt but they still take dogs and have their fair share of the sabs.

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MrsSkylerWhite · 28/12/2025 22:29

Jammymare · 28/12/2025 22:27

For me it would depend on the reputation of the hunt, we’re between two packs here, one is very transparent, has set routes and does everything to the letter of the law to the extent that even the sabs don’t bother them, the other is awful and is definitely using it as a smokescreen to actually hunt foxes.

Why can’t you just ride your horse?

Jammymare · 28/12/2025 22:34

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/12/2025 22:29

Why can’t you just ride your horse?

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I don’t hunt, but have no issue with others following clean boot hunts / hunts following a set trail hth

DaisyChain505 · 28/12/2025 22:34

Patridgeinanoaktree · 28/12/2025 22:15

We take our children trail hunting and absolutely love being part of the hunt community. There is nothing like the sound of the bugle and seeing the horses and hounds out, especially on boxing day.

We also shoot game and our children have grown up with partridge, pheasant hanging in our outbuildings. Our friends bring us venison.

We also have a small holding and know how to care for animals well. The children collected eggs and mucked out from 2 years old. We only buy high welfare meats. We have rescue cats roaming our land & ex battery hens. We love animals.

It's not a good person/ evil person debate.

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Just because you’re “kind” to a few animals doesn’t take away from the fact you support and enjoy a cruel and disgusting “sport”

BundleBoogie · 28/12/2025 22:35

SErunner · 28/12/2025 22:22

It’s a total smoke screen and my husband wouldn’t remain so if he went on one. I feel that strongly about it. It’s barbaric and the question of eating meat is totally unrelated. This is chasing a terrified exhausted animal to its death. Why would anyone choose to put another living creature through that?

The vast majority of hunts are done legally. You and other pps appear to be demonising a whole industry for the actions of a tiny minority.

lollygirl2 · 28/12/2025 22:37

Pepperedpickles · 28/12/2025 22:21

Hunting for pleasure and hunting - and killing in the most humane way possible for food - are not comparable.

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I’m not pro hunting

but do you have idea about how meat gets to us - it’s certainly isn’t always humane

BeaRightThere · 28/12/2025 22:38

Wolmando · 28/12/2025 22:25

Surely this isn't a sudden revelation or is it just that it is fairly topical at the moment, weird

It's made up because it's topical and because it will get everyone frothing at the mouth

BundleBoogie · 28/12/2025 22:38

DaisyChain505 · 28/12/2025 22:34

Just because you’re “kind” to a few animals doesn’t take away from the fact you support and enjoy a cruel and disgusting “sport”

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Can you explain how horses and hounds following a scent trail laid by a person is a ‘cruel and disgusting sport’?

The vast majority of hunts operate completely within the law and no animals are killed. Are you clear what exactly you are objecting to?

Pepperedpickles · 28/12/2025 22:39

lollygirl2 · 28/12/2025 22:37

I’m not pro hunting

but do you have idea about how meat gets to us - it’s certainly isn’t always humane

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Of course. I’m not an idiot.

Wolmando · 28/12/2025 22:40

BeaRightThere · 28/12/2025 22:38

It's made up because it's topical and because it will get everyone frothing at the mouth

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Obviously

PrincessofWells · 28/12/2025 22:40

Tattiana · 28/12/2025 22:25

To be fair no one needs to be hunting for food in the UK 🫤

What a privileged townie life you must lead . . .

crumpet · 28/12/2025 22:41

flumpsfortea · 28/12/2025 22:18

Have you ever seen a fox get torn apart? Have your kids? Do you all enjoy it?

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That’s not trail hunting though, is it.

CinnamonJellyBeans · 28/12/2025 22:42

Patridgeinanoaktree · 28/12/2025 22:15

We take our children trail hunting and absolutely love being part of the hunt community. There is nothing like the sound of the bugle and seeing the horses and hounds out, especially on boxing day.

We also shoot game and our children have grown up with partridge, pheasant hanging in our outbuildings. Our friends bring us venison.

We also have a small holding and know how to care for animals well. The children collected eggs and mucked out from 2 years old. We only buy high welfare meats. We have rescue cats roaming our land & ex battery hens. We love animals.

It's not a good person/ evil person debate.

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All the good things you do for animals, do not make it OK for you to support and attend fox hunts.

I always think these people who tag along after the hunters are just tag-nuts, hoping they will be mistaken for posh people.

crumpet · 28/12/2025 22:42

DaisyChain505 · 28/12/2025 22:34

Just because you’re “kind” to a few animals doesn’t take away from the fact you support and enjoy a cruel and disgusting “sport”

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What’s the cruel bit about trail hunting g?

lollygirl2 · 28/12/2025 22:43

Pepperedpickles · 28/12/2025 22:39

Of course. I’m not an idiot.

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you said meat killed for our consumption is humane

Longtimelurkerfinallyposts · 28/12/2025 22:45

Ponderingwindow · 28/12/2025 22:19

Where I live people hunt and fill their freezers with food for their families. It’s pretty hypocritical to complain about hunting if you eat meat and the people hunting have a valid permit and follow the rules.

Will they not consume what they kill?

Fox-hunting is NOT about going out hunting for food to fill your freezer with - none of those people are cooking and eating fox-meat! And if you wanted to eat a hare, there would be easier, quicker, less stressful & inhumane ways to catch and kill one.

Added to which, hunting foxes or hares with dogs is supposed to be illegal in the UK (and has been for over 20 years). There is no permit system.
Some die-hard members of the hunting fraternity would love to continue with their gruesome 'sport', which is why hunt sabs still go out every weekend and try to monitor their activities.

Pepperedpickles · 28/12/2025 22:48

lollygirl2 · 28/12/2025 22:43

you said meat killed for our consumption is humane

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No, I said “in the most humane way possible”, that doesn’t mean it always happens that way.

It should do.

You’re preaching to completely the wrong person btw, I’m the person who did their English language speech on veganism 😂

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FairViewRosie25 · 28/12/2025 22:48

Well said @Jammymare tbh the pack my H trails with are so shit they couldn’t find a drumstick if someone one held it in front of them

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PluckyChancer · 28/12/2025 22:48

Ponderingwindow · 28/12/2025 22:19

Where I live people hunt and fill their freezers with food for their families. It’s pretty hypocritical to complain about hunting if you eat meat and the people hunting have a valid permit and follow the rules.

Will they not consume what they kill?

Rules??? 😡

They do not follow any bloody rules!

They allow their out of control dogs to roam on other people’s land and viciously kill their pet animals because they’re completely hyped up.

Last time, we were lucky that DH and our dogs managed to see them off without them getting seriously hurt.

Any of their dogs that wander off course get left to fend for themselves and they don’t give a fuck about animal welfare.

BundleBoogie · 28/12/2025 22:48

Are all posters who are so utterly disgusted with OPs DH that they think she should leave him aware of how many farm animals get killed in the most horrendous ways by pet dogs every year?

Pet dogs kill 2.4 million farm animals per year. They also kill approx 64,000 other dogs and a few humans. Every year.

By contrast, approx 61 foxes were confirmed killed by the League Against Cruel Sports in a 2 year period.

Then we consider the millions of animals slaughtered without prior stunning for halal and kosher food.

But hey, let’s destroy jobs, marriages and thousands of animals (redundant hounds and horses will be killed if trail hunting is banned) for the foxes (that are likely to get shot for killing chickens/cats/ducks/small pets anyway).

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/12/2025 22:49

Jammymare · 28/12/2025 22:34

I don’t hunt, but have no issue with others following clean boot hunts / hunts following a set trail hth

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Sure.

flumpsfortea · 28/12/2025 22:49

crumpet · 28/12/2025 22:41

That’s not trail hunting though, is it.

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Oh no of course it isn’t. It isn’t like foxes and other animals get caught up in it. Not at all.

Blatant smokescreen and anyone who denies it is wilfully ignorant or lying to themselves.

I genuinely think the sight of any animal been torn apart by dogs would make me throw up. The fact that so many people do this for fun and enjoy it is very worrying, psychopathic behaviour.

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/12/2025 22:50

BundleBoogie · 28/12/2025 22:48

Are all posters who are so utterly disgusted with OPs DH that they think she should leave him aware of how many farm animals get killed in the most horrendous ways by pet dogs every year?

Pet dogs kill 2.4 million farm animals per year. They also kill approx 64,000 other dogs and a few humans. Every year.

By contrast, approx 61 foxes were confirmed killed by the League Against Cruel Sports in a 2 year period.

Then we consider the millions of animals slaughtered without prior stunning for halal and kosher food.

But hey, let’s destroy jobs, marriages and thousands of animals (redundant hounds and horses will be killed if trail hunting is banned) for the foxes (that are likely to get shot for killing chickens/cats/ducks/small pets anyway).

Don’t have a pet dog.

Please can you explain why banning would destroy marriages?

lollygirl2 · 28/12/2025 22:50

Pepperedpickles · 28/12/2025 22:48

No, I said “in the most humane way possible”, that doesn’t mean it always happens that way.

It should do.

You’re preaching to completely the wrong person btw, I’m the person who did their English language speech on veganism 😂

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No it’s not always killed in most humane way possible

flumpsfortea · 28/12/2025 22:51

BundleBoogie · 28/12/2025 22:48

Are all posters who are so utterly disgusted with OPs DH that they think she should leave him aware of how many farm animals get killed in the most horrendous ways by pet dogs every year?

Pet dogs kill 2.4 million farm animals per year. They also kill approx 64,000 other dogs and a few humans. Every year.

By contrast, approx 61 foxes were confirmed killed by the League Against Cruel Sports in a 2 year period.

Then we consider the millions of animals slaughtered without prior stunning for halal and kosher food.

But hey, let’s destroy jobs, marriages and thousands of animals (redundant hounds and horses will be killed if trail hunting is banned) for the foxes (that are likely to get shot for killing chickens/cats/ducks/small pets anyway).

Nobody is arranging packs of pet dogs to go kill farm animals for a laugh though are they? If it happens it’s by accident. Often the actions of irresponsible, feckless dog owners no doubt but not deliberate. Not sport. How can you compare?