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.

[girliefriend]

^^ agree totally frustrated, find this thread utterly depressing

[Greensleeves]

I agree too. Which is why it is such a great leap forward that parliamentary time was "wasted" on this, and it is illegal.

Unsurprisingly, there is still the element who can't understand why they shouldn't just do it anyway!

[BinarySolo]

So if you're not a troll, did you name change to start this thread?

Why did you need to if you believe hunting's fine?

[jade80]

You say they banned it, so how come the loopholes left (intentionally?) were large enough that the majority of hunts still operate, looking forward to repeal?

I have to say that I haven't come across any arrogant elitist inbred dimwits. Most I have met seem to be nice people, a few I have thought not so nice, but no higher a percentage than the rest of the population. Many have gone out of their way to be welcoming when I knew no-one.

Why not draghunt? The nearest drag to me is know for being a fast hunt over large hedges/fences. My horse isn't that expensive, nor I that good, we can manage maybe 2ft6?!

Also, as I explained above, I think that hunting is better than shooting, poisoning or trapping. There is obviously more to my views than mentioned above, that's just a brief outline. Overall, I believe the ban was an ill concieved, badly worded piece of crap. So I support the hunts and hope they make it through until the act is repealed.

I am open to discussion, I know many have very different views to me, and my views are not fixed.

[jade80]

Binarysolo, I don't have 'friends that hunt'. I do hunt. With a pack that currently hunts within the law. I will support them whether the ban is repealed or not.

[WaynettaSlobsLover]

Hunting is disgusting and I hope the one you are planning to go on gets cancelled or even better, banned. You and all the other poncing bloodthirsty twats should be ashamed and deep down you know it. Hopefully foxes will mutate in a few hundred years and get their own back on the hunting country cunts. Do excuse my French.

[jade80]

I didn't say not rich enough, now did I? My pony is not a posh hunter. I love him to bits, wouldn't swop him for a £5000 posh hunter, although he cost me less than £500!

[FirstHunt]

Beer tricks not once have I said its an illegal hunt

[Greensleeves]

You did say it was a fox hunt though, didn't you FirstHunt? Which is..... illegal. Even if you really really really want to do it.

[FirstHunt]

Well I guess traditionally its a fox hunt as opposed to deer.thats what I meant. Not that it is an illegal hunt.

[jade80]

Fox hunts still meet greensleeves. They simply work to ensure they are hunting within the law.

[Greensleeves]

By "hunting within the law" you mean lying, basically. Fox-hunting, but dressing it up as something else. If the dogs scent a fox - which is what they are there for - they will hunt it down and rip it to shreds.

The arrogance is unbelievable.

[frustratedworkingmum]

You do realise that you'll need to be "blooded" as its your first hunt - you'll have to have the foxes blood daubed on your face.

OK so you probably wont hve to do this, but that is the tradition

[BinarySolo]

Which is impossible as how do you stop an excited pack of dogs from killing the fox when they catch it?

[jade80]

You've spent lots of time at the front of a fox hunting field then, have you? As I've said, the way you imagine it is not what I have experienced at all.

Feel free to correct me and say that you are basing your views on actual experience rather than just something made up.

I will ride safely and take care, thank you. You too- if you're a rider that is, I'm not sure from what you've said.

[frustratedworkingmum]

I think there is alot of ignorance and niavety surrounding fox-hunting, mostly within the ranks of folk like the OP who think they know better because they are "horsey"

[batteryhen]

I can never understand the argument that hunting the foxes with hounds is more humane than killing them. If that is the case why does it take 50 people all dressed up 'to have a jolly good time' to hunt down the fox? Why not send out just 2 people and the hounds to get the job done quickly and quietly. Why is it such a celebrated occasion?

It's the blatant killing for fun that I can't abide.

I speak as a person who has worked in a hunting yard and has hunted in my much mis-guided youth.

[FirstHunt]

That's not what I've been lead to believe is the case green.

[QuickLookBusy]

If I was fox hunting I'd be too embarrassed to ask for advice on a public forum.

Don't you know that most people hate it? Or is that why you started this thread?

Could you not ask your friend who you're going on the hunt with?

[Greensleeves]

They represent a tranche of society who have NEVER believed that the common law applies to them. It's nothing new. That is why parliamentary democracy is so precious - it simply isn't possible to turn people like this into human beings, so we need to be able to ban their disgusting activities in law. And as BeerTricks has pointed out, OP has obligingly made that a bit easier. :)

[jade80]

Greensleeves. No, that is not what I said at all. Please dont put words in my mouth. I believe current options to 'hunt within the law' include following a laid scent, using hounds to flush to guns and using birds of prey.

I have quite clearly said that I feel hunting (as was) is a kinder control method than the other options. This is my view and is so far unchanged by the insults slung on this thread (notably lacking in actual coherent arguments that might actually, you know, make me consider my views.)