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Hunting is actually humane sport
Heatherdale Close, Halifax I READ Rory Fellingham-Webb's letter headlined "My challenge on cruelty to foxes" (Your say, January 15).
Thanks, Rory, your letter really made me laugh. It was one of the best letters I have seen for a while.
Putting human emotions to animals shows you watch to much Disney. Animals do not live in houses and talk over tea. They also do not have remorse over some creature they have killed.
Foxes spend their lives in an alert state, it's what keeps them alive. Looking for food, danger and reproduction are what the fox is about. Foxes are very aware of danger and are well out of the way at the first hint of a hound. The chase is in their favour, not the hounds. They are off long before the hounds scent them.
To Miss C Smith ("We should show mercy to animals", Your say, January 14) the words "compromise welfare" are not the same as "cruel".
People feeding a fox inappropriate food, walking their dogs in a fox's patch "compromise" a fox's welfare. Is that cruel?
Cruelty, for those who do not understand, is to ignore a sick or injured animal that can no longer feed and so suffer a slow, agonising death. Leaving that animal to die that way is cruel.
Hunts mainly remove the sick and injured before they suffer, making hunting a humane, uncruel sport.
Gordon Thorpe
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