Does anyone anti or pro support this law?

[peakpark]

But don't the police have a duty to enforce the law?

Well they do have a duty to enforce the law, but maybe they feel that other criminal activities such as rape, robbery, stabbings and so on should take priority, and since violent crime is on the increase they have their work cut out trying (not very successfully it would seem) to deal with that.

 

[JessDoesItBetter]

I don't think that animal welfare should take priority over a person. However i do agree that shooting a fox immediatly after it has been flushed - by a competant person- is a really good idea. I believe that people who aren't directly involved in the killing shouldn't put themselves in a dangerous position in the first place.
Shooting foxes isn't often cruel when it is done by a professional games keeper, the only problem with shooting is that anyone can get hold of a gun, and these "anyone's" are those who haven't got a good shot and cause the animal unnecessary suffering.
I think hunting should be a professional occupation carried out by trained and professional games keepers, not a sport to be enjoyed by anyone wishing to partake in it.

 

[severnmiles]

professional games keeper

Is he the one who holds the key to the box that contains Monopoly? :grin:

 

[antiantianti]

Well done Jess. It's good to have your support.

Do you think that people who take their dogs into woods and refuse to shoot all the wild mammals that are flushed out but instead let them escape shopuld be prosecuted.

It's just sick don't you think not to kill an animal?

 

[antihunt]

Well said Jess!

The Hunting Act should be tightened up to require anybody who goes out with a dog to have to carry a gun in order to exterminate any wildlife that they flush out.

I'd also like to see it made illegal not to shoot flushed out birds. Why should they not be given the same legal protection against not being shot as mammals enjoy?

 

[antiantianti]

I've changed my mind about this. I want to retract my vote.

I know it sounds weird but I think being anti hunt means one should be against killing animals when there is no reason apart from obeying an obviously cocked up law that the police won't enforce.

 

[wireweiners]

Speaking as someone from the US, where hunting is still considered an honorable pastime, you people sure have some weird game laws. Am I understanding correctly? If I was out hacking or walking and my dogs were with me (as they usually are) and they flushed a deer, rabbit, coyote, whatever (as they usually do), I would be obliged by your law to shoot it? That's absurd.

When did the AR fanatics take over the UK?

 

[antiantianti]

Basically you can't flush out a deer from a wood or other crops to prevent it damaging it without shooting it.

 

[Fairynuff]

Just shoot the bastards and end this bull [****]-its gone beyond boring .

 

[antiantianti]

haha [****] laws are very boring too