Dissertation questionnaire surrounding fox management and hunting with hounds!

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Hi there,

I am currently a third year degree student studying animal science and farm livestock production and I need your help!

I am carrying out a questionnaire surrounding the controversy management of foxes and fox hunting with hounds. I have devised two questionnaires, one for people who would class themselves as general members of the public and one for people who would class themselves as practitioners, such as huntsmen, gamekeepers, farmers etc. I would be very grateful for your time in completing my questionnaire :)

The link for the general public questionnaire is:

http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=do69bop704y0d3794294

And the link for the practitioner questionnaire is:

http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=byx5bszkmhihllb94272

ps sorry for posting this in several places I wasn't sure as to where to put it!
 
Completed under protest.

Frankly, I nearly abandoned this survey half way through. The questions are badly worded and in some cases illogical.

I don't think you are going to get a very reliable response.
 
I just gots an old sod give off to me about posting up a dissertation question. So good luck as I got mine removed. That's the thanks I get for all the advice I've given and I can't ask one little favour!
 
It is not a very well thought out questionnaire.

For a start, I do believe a good shot is the best method especially at night providing the shooter can 'chirp' up foxes. I do not condone poison or snares yet they are put under the same question as to whether you think them best.

There is a great increase in urban foxes. When I was returning from Heathrow to Staines early one morning I saw at least 20 foxes happily scavenging along the streets taking no notice of any early morning workers.

Hunting with hounds, before the ban, helps to cull either the young and weak or the feeble and old. It also helps to disperse foxes into different territories.

All shooting of foxes requires a good shot for a humane death
Shooting a fox with a shotgun can often just damage and not kill depending on the distance.

Hunting with hounds either the fox gets away unharmed or is killed = plain and simple.
 
Foxhunter49 said:
It is not a very well thought out questionnaire.

For a start, I do believe a good shot is the best method especially at night providing the shooter can 'chirp' up foxes. I do not condone poison or snares yet they are put under the same question as to whether you think them best.

There is a great increase in urban foxes. When I was returning from Heathrow to Staines early one morning I saw at least 20 foxes happily scavenging along the streets taking no notice of any early morning workers.

Hunting with hounds, before the ban, helps to cull either the young and weak or the feeble and old. It also helps to disperse foxes into different territories.

All shooting of foxes requires a good shot for a humane death
Shooting a fox with a shotgun can often just damage and not kill depending on the distance.

Hunting with hounds either the fox gets away unharmed or is killed = plain and simple.
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My thoughts exactly. As a farmer who has lost a lot of free range fancy poultry (at £50 each!) to foxes, I'll shoot a fox regardless of whether it is night or day with whatever gun or rifle I have handy! I should quickly point out that we have no packs of hounds around here but when I lived in the south and there was a problem, the hunt terrier man would usually know where to find the culprit and deal with it promptly and without fuss. Do they still offer that service?

Snares are not nice but they do work and they don't sleep. Where foxes cause damage, there is often no alternative. A fox in the Highlands of Scotland, selected by hundreds of years of ruthless persecution, is a completely different animal to the town fox -- or even the fox on the low ground. A report commissioned by the Department of Agriculture for Scotland concluded that a fox can kill a live healthy lamb up to 10kgs in weight. One particularly hard winter in this area, they were killing full grown sheep, mostly lambing ewes incapacitated in some way. Entry was either behind the shoulder, via the anus, or the udder would be removed, i.e. soft tissue.
 
I was disappointed that there was no recognition of the disruption of the fox population by hunting. The moving on of foxes by hunting is a very useful part of the result of hunting. I also do not find snaring, or shooting with shotguns to be acceptable at all, but they were lumped in with rifle shooting.
 
Dry Rot said:
Completed under protest.

Frankly, I nearly abandoned this survey half way through. The questions are badly worded and in some cases illogical.

I don't think you are going to get a very reliable response.
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Sorry I gave up. My preferred method of fox population control would be hunting with hounds. Tht option wasn't available, yet the question didn't mention the current law.

I do wish students would trial these questionnaires before posting on here - most of them don't make sense, or skew the questions to give the answers the poster desires/
thinks will be the outcome.
 
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