ninfan – Member
round here there is/was a mounted hunt
Ah, ’round here’
Right
Thanks for proving my point
@mrlebowski – but you live in a town now, right? [/quote]
What was your point? Because I’m buggered if I can see how that proves what you wrote.
I suspect you just firing posts off randomly.
Anyway to spell out my point that you seem to have failed to grasp.
1. Not against toffs on horses or anyone else on horses charging across the landscape. If I ride I’d fancy doing that. In fact I do on an MTB – anyone object if I join in.
2. Not against control of the fox population – just not convinced that charging across the landscape is a sensible way to do it with the minimum distress to the fox before it’s killed.
3. I am concerned about people who wrap pomp and ceremony round killing I think it says a lot about them. (I also feel that having religious beliefs should exclude an individual from any office where they get to make decisions that one might expect to lead to people dying – i.e. If you believe in a heaven you might view,say, soldiers dying differently – but that’s a different discussion).
4. I am aware that a lot of hunters aren’t toffs and I am aware of hunts on foot. And I know and discuss these sorts of things with folk who hunt and farmers and landowners. They conduct themselves with far more dignity and considered response than you ninfan – though I’ll leave it to you to decide if that’s a high bar.
City boy by birth, but spent the last 20 years round North Yorkshire, mainly in small villages.
I used to see the hounds being exercised as I drove into work.