Exactly, the prey is killed instantly by one dog .

The ripping apart be it one or a pack of dogs is no different, the fox (prey) will already be dead, killed by the lead dog, or your pet..

Yet its expectable for the pet to do it, but not the hound.

I find

I've had horses 40 years and many of my friends have gone hunting for nearly 30 of those years and NEVER has a fox been shot 'before it gets too tired'. A fit fox that escapes to ground has inevitably been dug from its den and thrown to the hounds. I've heard the horror stories on a weekly basis for more years than I care to remember.

Fox hunting is a throw back to the times when the 'gentry' killed things for 'sport' it was a social
occassion and pass time, nothing to do with controlling fox
Numbers which would have been done by the gamekeepers etc and I imagine done quickly with a gun.

Fox hunting should be banned. It is cruel, it runs a fox to exhaustion through sheer fear and then it is killed. It is entirely about pleasing the people who do it, who go along for the horse ride. Shame on them.

My MP will vote against dropping the ban, I wrote to her as soon as she was elected to make sure of her position. It is a barbaric practice. The people who do it on horses inthe countryside are no better than the ones who do it for a laugh in cities. Neither are animal lovers.

the group of hounds i go with dont go out on horses.. i think that might be the difference. they went on foot, and people who were allowed to shoot, were in different places, so the fox got shot first...

Will never find it anything but distasteful that those who support animals being torn apart or shot for sport etc can call themselves animal lovers ....

I can call myself a princess, doesn't
Mean I am though, the facts would
prove otherwise

It is NOT acceptable for a dog to kill things -- I'm not sure where you got that from? accepting that it may well happen as an accident is not the same as agreeing with it. The analogy you are trying to make here does not work.

When a pet dog dispatches a small prey animal, generally there is a reason they have been able to catch it in the first place -- old age or illness in the animal typically. There is no long pursuit involved until the animal gives up from exhaustion, unlike fox hunting. No comparison.

On the flip side, what IS the justification for fox hunting with hounds?

No one says it better than Mark Twain -

"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. *Of the entire brood, he is the one who possesses malice.*He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong, proves his moral inferiority to any creature that can not."
Mark Twain

l I get it from reading posts on here time and time again, where owners allow their pet dogs to dispatch wild life.

It seems to be acceptable for a pet dog to kill and eat its own prey, but mention hounds doing the same thing and it suddenly becomes barbaric,


Exactly!!

There is no long persuit and a kill due to exhaustion with hounds either.

The fit get away quicky the old and ill don`t , just as with the pet dog.

With all due respect JB if that were the case there wouldn't be such long pursuits through the countryside, even many landowners hate it.