Government ‘committed’ to banning trail hunting

> Further changes to the law have been criticised as “completely unjustified”, with the Countryside Alliance saying trail hunting is a legal activity that brings rural communities together.

Is there any moral difference between enjoying watching dogs rip foxes to shreds and cock fighting?

As much as I agree with this I feel like there are bigger things to focus on rn…

Legalise weed and use the saved policing money to enforce this ban. That’s what I say

might be a silly question but 12,000 hunting days, am I not understanding something here I thought there was only 365 days a year not over 12,000?

“The alliance’s chief executive, Tim Bonner, said the ban would be an “act of spite” that would be negatively received by the countryside.

He said there were 12,000 hunting days each year that are legal and legitimate.”

If hunts hadn’t been flagrantly hunting foxes all this time they probably wouldn’t have had anything to worry about.

Reported a fox hunt Christmas Eve, was happening at the time, police weren’t interested

My autistic nephew and his mum were out walking when a bunch of shitheads from The Milton Estate surrounded them with barking dogs and horses. They think they also had a shotgun.

They slowly closed in on them before leading them back to their car and off the public right of way they were illegally hunting on.

My nephew was terrified for hours. I wanted to get my hands on them but it was reported to the police who did absolutely nothing.

So many of these people should be in jail.

For clarity, it was the shit eating, animal torturing, moldy cunt flap loving MILTON ESTATE.

I hope everyone realises trail hunting is not fox hunting. They send a runner out with a scent and the dogs chase the runner with the hunt. No foxes involved. It’s just a sport at this point I don’t see why it should be banned if there is nothing cruel happening.

Time to finish what labour originally started.

Consign hunting in whatever form to history.

Yay, more things to be nominally banned and not be enforced.

You guys know fox hunting is completely legal in Northern Ireland right?

any toff with money and who seeks to avoid the non existent law enforcement can go there.

This is nothing more than an attempt to prevent Leftists within the party going over to Corbyn’s new little band, I suspect it will cost him more seats than it could possibly retain him as it seems Labour is determined to make sure it never wins a seat in rural Britain again.

I’d prefer our conservation efforts going to well, literally any other more endangered or ecologically important animal, I’d particularly favour birds, fighting the climate crisis on a practical basis means wind power and lots of it. One of the few actual negative side effects of the things (never really got why people say they are ugly) is that they kill birds, additional conservation funding should be able to deal with or at least mitigate this negative side effect of our energy transition.

“Trail hunting” *is* fox hunting.

Any sab will tell you. These people quite literally laugh at the loophole-addled hunting act at their meetings.

The last 7 governments have been “committed” to banning it

I hope they are specific with this.

There is a dog sport called hound trailing where the dogs are given a scent to follow and the run cross country in a race.

And then theres fox hunting.

One is a genuine dog sport where the dogs are trained to follow an odour only, wear gps collars in case they get lost and are vigorously trained to ignore all distractions and follow a specific scent for miles.

While the other is rich toffs on horses ‘trailing’ when in reality they are fox hunting on private land and treat their animals like shit.

Like they were commited to waspi, lowering taxes, growing the economy and blah blah blah