Thank you for the fuller story of the Mustangs! Yes, bad beaurocracy equals bad stewardship!!
Fox hunting a sport???!! Not in the UK! - ever!! Would you like to know the facts?
The British media and politicians are the primary culprits in misrepresenting one of the oldest, continuing, lawful industries in Britain! Have you obtained info also from the organised fox hunts or just from their opponents?
Hunting with hounds is scientifically the most humane method of culling their preyless numbers and reducing the damage they wreak. It's agreed by all concerned in the protection of private property from scavengers. The preference of both sides affected by foxes - landowners and the hunt masters, and has been a practice of stewardship for centuries: hounds kill foxes instantly, by breaking the neck - even better than wildlife on Africa's plains where killing is by strangulation. Any shaking of the fox carcass is shaking of a carcass, and is done so younger hounds can learn the scent of the foxes.
These hounds are pedigree dogs established by decades and even centuries of breeding, and are retired while some are sold as pets, without being trained to hunt fox scent, as pedigrees of their breed. Stopping hunting with hounds is damaging that angle, another commercial aspect of fox hounds, too.
Foxes are wild and
not kept captive - don't know where you heard of
that?! Rather, the damage they inflict on private farm land and to farm animals brings the hounds and hunt masters out to deal with the foxes on a daily basis: the hounds hunt full time, not just on weekends. The farmers pay the kennels for the service of protecting their private land.
Guns are involved, but not nearly as reliable as hounds for instantly killing foxes stone dead on sight, should the fox even be caught by the hounds, since shooting may easily leave foxes injuried but not dead, as foxes are not statues! This shooting barbarity is what the House of Commons has foisted on our wildlife! Yes, an unconstitutional procedure of the Commons overriding the equally sovereign House of Lords - by the Parliament Acts 1912 & 1949 (I think) - after 4 rounds of amendments from the Lords is the story of the Hunting Act here, and another sign of the values of the UK disintegrating.
The weekend hunts with the local community gathered in support of their local organised hunt masters and members of the supporters' club - each hunt looks after a smallish part of the county it's in,
isn't a sport of hunting!! Some of the horse riders have to rent their horse for the day, and all are not able to jump fences! Only the core huntsmen and women, including vets, so all the professionals, always do that - the vets tend to the hounds and certify that the foxes caught and killed are humanely, instantly killed. It is down to these rides that the race horse community keeps its horses fit between racing seasons. Race horses need this exercise, of course.
It's the pleasure of having permission from landowners to ride over private land that is the sport involved here!Hunting with hounds is Christian stewardship, designed in a Christian nation over many generations of farmers and hunt masters. Foxes can't be domesticated, so this is the way those affected by foxes want to deal with them.
Part of Christian stewardship of nature is the fundamental principle that human rights are not transferrable to animals. Thus the whole argument against hunting with hounds is mistaken on the Biblical principle, aside from the science on humane hunting with hounds being totally ignored by opponents over here. That's why it's part of British culture, and shouldn't be interferred with.