Hunting is in a spot of bother

[Exasperated]

As expected, there has been much hate for the hunts on social media following news stories about yesterday's meets.
According to some people, all hunts (trail, drag, bloodhounds) are killing foxes every time they go out. There's little point in arguing as it just turns into a 'class' thing (hilarious that I am being called a 'stuck up toff' - and that's one of the nicer insults - given that I'm from a north Manchester council estate & didn't even own a horse until I was in my 40s). And bloodhounds - well, apparently the clue is in the name! it seems that they rip things up to consume the blood. Looks like the runners with the hunt I rode with had a lucky escape.


Lots of talk about the Labour party's proposed ban on 'trail hunting'. Does anyone here know if it does indeed just cover trail hunting (that's all it says in the manifesto) or will it extend to drag hunting & clean boot? I can see that there's some confusion here amongst the public. I read that the proposed ban covers hunts following an 'animal based scent'...I can see what they're getting at, but how on earth could it be enforced without widespread checking? And wouldn't existing trail hunts who are using animal based scent just say that they have moved to artificial scent?

Really? killing foxes every time they go out??
Well, the packs must be doing a far better job today than ever was the case, pre-Ban:
One of the indisputable arguments against fox hunting was its relative inefficiency at reducing predators, whilst simultaneously damaging farmland. Many, many days were entirely bloodless.
Clean boot bloodhounding used to be the high octane alternative, very fast with few checks, but having witnessed them off-piste into a field of ewes, and pull one apart before hunt servants could whip them off - not necessarily ‘bloodless’, either.