Hunting for the first time, I'm terrified

[FirstHunt]

Am hunting on Monday it.l be the 4th time I've ridden the horse though he has hunted, I've popped over some small jumps in the school but I've never ever jumped a hedge, will I have to jump? if I don't jump am I likely to be left behind massively that's something he really doesn't like. I don't mind popping over small stuff but not huge hedges etc.

I am so heartily sick of the endless assumptions that fox populations need controlling. For one, they are territorial - you kill one you get another one. Secondly, learn some history. Foxes were hunted to extinction in mainland uk in the 18th century and reintroduced from the continent - purely for the purpose of hunting. They were deliberately introduced to the Isle of Wight as late as the 1930s for the same reason (although pro hunters will try to argue it was to control bunnies). And, anyone who actually hunts and is naive enough to think only sick foxes are killed (cubbing, anyone?) and that foxes don't get deliberately released after being kept in a sack overnight so they stink to high heaven or that terrier men don't dig them out is a fecking idiot.

punkatheart is a wolf conservationalist who posted a you tube clip of a hunt filmed in 2012 well after the ban was in place in which a hunt objector grabbed the fox from the hounds. it looked terrified and tiny among all those dogs.

I wonder if that was the same fox released into our local pack BY animal rights activists a few years back so that they could film it being ripped to shreds?

There's a difference though between domestication and exploitation.

I couldn't care less whether a certain class practices fox hunting - it is an illegal, barbaric, bloodsport. The end.

Lurchers, the sack and digging out you mention is disgusting and I don't think would be accepted anywhere as appropriate. I take it you have no actual examples of hunts that do this? If you do, they should be reported.

Saggy, that is awful, but sadly only too believable given the things some so called 'animal lovers' do.

There's a difference though between domestication and exploitation.
No there isn't. Domestication is just exploitation given a different name. There are many many domesticated animals which are treated far worse than foxes.
The difference is, man relies on domesticated animals to live.

The status, beer tricks? I ask again, why do you think some wear that colour coat? It's nothing to do with how rich they are!

Like i said, naive.

Rent a crowds can gain access on meet days, there's no ring of security, it's called a 'field' for a reason!

*Your horse is cheap and you don't have the status to wear the red coat.

That's not a Class diss, it's just an observation.*
Hunt staff wear red coats. Generally paid employees. Working class?
Everyone else wears black.

So if you know something, get on and report it. If you don't, stop pretending you do.

i doubt it saggy judging from the distress and risk the woman took in plucking it from the hounds mouths

hope this shows exactly what hunting is about.

and that woman kicks her horse

Cost has no bearing on a horses suitability to hunt.

Saggy

Domestication is a scientifically documented process involving changes to animals' DNA and human-faunal interaction but I doubt you could tell me what part of which millennium it happened in for, say canines, wthout googling it.

I am still unsure what the price of horses has to do with coat colour. People who have bought less expensive horses or even not paid for them at all- maybe bred their own- are not precluded from being able to wear a 'red coat'. I do not find myself at all confused about the difference between money and class, thanks. Katie Price would be a prime illustraion for this

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poor little sod.

Pretending nothing. Some prosecutions have resulted from activity i and others have filmed. Unfortunately far too few, and the reality (as well you know) is that the change in the law has done little to change that.