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.

Really, REALLY sick. You are going out to KILL a creature weaker than yourself, and you are worried about YOURSELF.

Shows what sort of person you are.

Frustrated- I don't take pleasure in deaths either, why would I, that would be sick. I do support fox hunting though, I don't believe this means I take pleasure in foxes dying. It means I believe it is the best method of controlling them. Although obviously this is theoretical as hunting as it used to be is currently illegal.

This has my vote as most disingenuous post ever seen on MN.

How can it be the best method of controlling them if it only kills the old and sick?

Ha ha I've been at the front, middle and at the back! All rounder, me. (More honestly, I have ended up at the front when the braking system failed at least once!)

Oddly enough one of my chickens was eaten by a fox last week. It didn't make me want to dress up and go and meet up with a pack of rabid rural psychopaths and spend several hours participating in a mediaeval death ritual

guess I just ain't got the breeding

Sabrina- why do you feel I am not being honest?
Nit- because killing the old and sick leaves a healthier population more able to hunt wild prey and less likely to kill domestic animals.

Jade, you are a true altruist, giving up your time to control a country side pest, when you don't even enjoy it :)

foxes are actually self controlling. they dont need controls

and which is it?
either its a successful way of killing foxes or its not. im sick of reading shite about the fox escaping etc - if thats true then why bother?
ill tell you why bother - because its fun for those chasing.

dont dress it up.

and its illegal its time more prosecutions were brought about. If while on patrol my attention was brought to an illegal hunt i would have no hesitation in going for a prosecution.

Hunt formation?! News to me!

all underhand isn't it? You are so sure it is humane and fulfills a need which cannot be met as well in any other manner, yet you are doing it in secret so your family does not know. You are hunting a fox with hounds in such a way that you believe you can circumvent the law, knowing full well the intention of the law is to prevent fox hunting as a blood sport. Presume you name changed for this since it is unlikely that FirstHunt is your regular posting name.

Oh and individual hunters don't actually get charged, do they? So you know you are doing something that could lead to you being charged. You sound dishonest to me

That you bought a cheap horse and are going to take him insufficiently prepared to a hunt since he didn't cost much, doesn't surprise me really

Frustrated- sarcasm duly noted! I do very much enjoy the ride though. I don't, however, sit there drooling at the thought of something being caught. I've never even seen a fox caught! (Not even back in the days when it would have been legal!)

LMAO at your last comment ther jade!! Leaves a healthier population more able to hunt wild prey and less likely to kill domestic animals Foxes will hunt where there are easy pickings, they wont descriminate and will go after domestic animals if they are not protected and easy to get at. They wont think to themselves, "well im perfectly well enough to go hunt myself a wild rabbit, when there are domestic animals there for the taking" They will take them. Maybe the key is adequate fox proofing of land? But then if they did that, the hunting dogs wouldnt be able to get through - oh the dilemma

I didn't once say he was. A cheap horse or that he is unprepared. He has hunted before.

ZZZ- the op didn't say she bought a cheap horse, are you confusing her with me?

OP, your reply to me referring to your OP was incorrect, wasn't it? Or what we call an untruth where I was raised.

Vicar, yes. Foxes are territorial and thus self- controlling. So when one is cruelly and inhumanely butchered erm, controlled by the Hunt, another soon comes along to takes it's place.

Which is jolly convenient for the Hunt is it not?

Well I've taken no chances frustratedmum- my chickens are kept in a run as fox proof as I can make it. I can't speak for others.

I've never ever jumped a hedge

From the OP's OP.

I feel sorry for that horse.

FWIW i don't think you are scum of the earth or anything, i know a lot a fair few people who hunt and they are perfectly nice, but they are still wrong to do it. I did use to be a hunt sabbatour, back in the day (so you may think im a scummy hippy do gooder if you wish ) when hunting was "legal" and i can tell you how scary the terrier men were, nothing refined and "nice" about them, i can tell you. Thugs, the lot of them.

OP, frankly you be getting riding lessons. In a meadow.