Hunting - For or Against?

[MarinaDiamandis]

Which could be due to their disability to act outside their instinct. I hardly think it's for fun.

I'm pretty sure it is for fun. If they were hunting they'd make it a quick kill, not toy with their "prey" for 10-20 minutes before injuring it and leaving it to bleed to death 90% intact.

As Famine has said about cats, you can judge whether or not an animal is playing simply by observing it. Foxes defiantely make a game of raiding chicken coops.

 

[Encyclopedia]

I'm pretty sure it is for fun. If they were hunting they'd make it a quick kill, not toy with their "prey" for 10-20 minutes before injuring it and leaving it to bleed to death 90% intact.

As Famine has said about cats, you can judge whether or not an animal is playing simply by observing it. Foxes defiantely make a game of raiding chicken coops.

Ok perhaps it's true. I still think they lacks the ability to understand the suffering of their playthings and wether it's right or wrong to do so.

We don't.

 

[Williy]

I don't mind people hunting for food, hunting to protect livestock and hunting to control the population of a curtain animal.
But hunting for fun? there's so much better things to do than kill some animal for your own amusement, why don't they just go and play paintball, shoot at each other, all the fun without anything dying at the end of the day.

 

[Liquid]

Revived.

On the back of a Tory majority in the British parliament, there are plans afoot to repeal the hunting ban. For clarity, this is a piece of legislation which prohibits the hunting of wild mammals with dogs and not with guns, which operates under various licences anyway.

Has anyone's opinion changed? Or perhaps you didn't catch it first time around.

Again, there are two issues when it comes to hunting in the UK. There is hunting; going out and shooting a rabbit or two to put in a stew or whatever. And there is the Hunt; classic aristocratic past time of chasing foxes through forests on horseback, with dogs exhausting the subject and mauling it.

I don't think my opinion on hunting has changed that much.

Hunting - Fine. I'd rather not do it but the principle is fine. Go out and catch something to eat.
The Hunt - It's a bloodsport like bear baiting, bullfighting or cockfighting. And like those, I don't see a place for them in modern society.

 

[DK]

Way to prove the Tory stereotype.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I am against the Hunt. I grew up in the countryside, and the feeling it's left me with is one of utter contempt for the people that do it. I won't even pretend it's because I've got the foxes best interests at heart, just because the people that do it are epic, epic scrotums. Honestly these days I doubt I'd bother slowing down when I reached the pack of dogs, possibly not when I reached the horses, and definitely not when I reached the catastrophic asstards that abandon their Range Rovers in the middle of the single track road out of the village for 30 minutes so they can watch. It doesn't help that I pretty much despise dogs and when 40 of them rip through your front garden, garage, shed and back garden it tends to make me want to get the bat out and start cracking snouts.

 

[Pupik]

I don't care for it, but I also don't have any reason to be against it; other than knowingly hunting on someone else's property without permission. It's reckless...but statistically, only a rare psychopath would intentionally do that.

 

[Dagger311]

I'll never enjoy hunting, but if it's what you enjoy, then I'm not against it. Especially if you actually eat/use what you shoot, and don't leave it to rot.

Especially deer hunting. They're a huge problem when you start going in to the hills in my state.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I'll never enjoy hunting, but if it's what you enjoy, then I'm not against it. Especially if you actually eat/use what you shoot, and don't leave it to rot.

Especially deer hunting. They're a huge problem when you start going in to the hills in my state.

In the context of UK fox hunting, eating/using what you hunt doesn't enter in to it, it doesn't happen at all. As for encroaching into the habitat of wild animals and then thinking they're a huge problem, I'm not sure if that's justification or not.

 

[2clicks]

I will only condone hunting if it's in defense, not offense.

 

[Dagger311]

In the context of UK fox hunting, eating/using what you hunt doesn't enter in to it, it doesn't happen at all. As for encroaching into the habitat of wild animals and then thinking they're a huge problem, I'm not sure if that's justification or not.

Ohh, I didn't read the OP, didn't realize we were talking about fox hunting specifically.

In that case, no. It's only purpose is for sport.

And I'm not talking about going into the wilderness and hunting (Which I only consider okay if, like I said, you use what you kill), I'm talking about rural North Georgia. It's ours now, civilized towns (Albeit small, quiet ones), and the deer are causing problems up there. Severe overpopulation, the diseases they carry, auto accidents caused by them, and wrecking people's yards, home, etc. To name a few.

 

[Liquid]

I forgot to add as well; from a conservation point of view, I'm quite against whale hunting.

 

[TenEightyOne]

other than knowingly hunting on someone else's property without permission. It's reckless...but statistically, only a rare psychopath would intentionally do that.

If we're talking about fox hunting... foxes aren't really followers of the land registry, and blood-packs don't make appointments

My parents live a mile over fields from the Holderness Hunt, when those dogs (horrible dogs, hounds) are on the scent then nothing stops them. If the blood's up and the fox goes through your garden then the hounds will follow (messily), it's as simple as that.

Then the chinless pinks arrive to snort a meaningless apology followed by the inevitable train of cloned Range Rovers.

I have nothing against pest control but fox hunts can be barbaric in general and in truth do little for many local economies. Equine industry has continued to do well in this area although naturally the local equine vets are putting far fewer hunters down. Hunters as in horses, obviously

 

[Beeblebrox237]

My opinion is similar to most others here. Hunting is fine, as long as the species isn't endangered. The Hunt is just silly.

 

[Lizard]

Same here. Hunting for food. Fine.
Fox hunting with dogs however. Don't like it.

 

[LeMansAid]

As a general rule I support taking animals from the wild for food vs farmed, though I do neither myself. I'd probably manage to bring myself to take out animals (such as cats) that kill native animals en masse, faced with the opportunity.

The concept of hunting purely for fun (and not food) will bring me to a rage rather promptly.

The awkward one is hunting for conservation. Not in the case of pests that threaten environment or other fauna, but where hunting for fun is engaged to raise funds to go to the protection of endangered species. I get a pragmatic "end justifies the means" thought, followed by a wanting smash in peoples' faces thought.

 

[Spirit]

My take on hunting is that it should be a source of food, nothing more. Hunting with dogs, or just killing animals for fun really drives me crazy. If you need food and can't do the grocery for whatever reason, take to your gun and do what you need to do to feed your family.

This "The Hunt" thing is why I have little faith in humanity.

As for the overpopulation cause: that's justified to an extent, but we as a species are the most invasive and out of control. We should control our own encroachment before we blame the diseases and crowding on the native animals.

 

[wvmgmidget]

I hunt (and so does everyone else in WV) but, not for sport. I don't hunt for my enjoyment and I enjoy the peace and quiet when waiting for the animal to come killing isn't . Though I can have easy access to other meat supplies I do like the taste of venison and I don't let the deer or other creature go to waste either. Also, without hunting the deer population would get way too high and cause problems for society.

On another topic I nearly ran over a beaver on my way home. So, I'm thinking about trapping a beaver one of these days to make a top hat and to see how a beaver will taste (so it doesn't go to waste)

 

[Com Fox]

For me it varies.

I'm for hunting when it comes to animals which are very common but against it if the animal species is close to extinction. Though hunting for joy only is where I'm mainly against for all species, probably because of Yugioh Arc-V where the main character witnesses a war between 2 different dimensions and the "evil" dimension hunts the other dimension just for fun (albeit the leader has different agendas but he doesn't tell his "soldiers") even though they did nothing wrong and experience a lot of grief.

 

[LeMansAid]

Though hunting for joy only is where I'm mainly against for most species

Since it's only "most", which creatures do you think it's ok to hunt for joy?

 

[mustafur]

Hunting to defend your Business such as a Chicken farm is perfectly acceptable.

Hunting because a known predators numbers are out of control is also acceptable.

Hunting for fun with no intention to even eat said animal after slaughter not acceptable imo.

We all have to realise though, that animals like Foxes work on instinct and don't have the ability of free thought so a total ban on hunting is completely illogical for the means of protecting someone's lively hood.

If any Animal had the ability of free thought and could be accountable for it's actions that's the only time it can make sense to have a total ban on hunting for said animal.

Also when it comes to Dogs and Cats wouldn'r that fall under owner responsibility for damage if caused?

Because I know that's the case if they cause injury to a person.

 

[Com Fox]

Since it's only "most", which creatures do you think it's ok to hunt for joy?

Just the ones that are out of control in population. Though I guess that accounts for a different reason so I'll fix my post