Quote Originally Posted by Elephantine View Post
Well that is earth shattering revelation.
Since you appear rather concerned on animal welfare issues I do hope you reported this very illegal act to the relevant authorities.
This was some years ago before the ban, at the time it was entirely legal as the mangy foxes were being "re-homed"

[/quote]Though on a moments reflection some questions are raised.
Is it just complete twaddle?
If someone has to give out such obvious fabrications to support their viewpoint on a subject does there viewpoint hold any real merit?[/quote]

^This was unnecessary and it's going to make you look more foolish in but a moment.

Lets just look at the basics. shooting urban foxes can net @50 a day, a trap may catch 20~30 in a year. So did those evil northerners have a very big collection of traps or did they store the captured foxes until they had enough to illegally ship them half way across the country?
Did they pack them all into the back of a lorry for the journey or would 300 individual cages have to be loaded?
I've seen video of them being dumped out of the back of vans, half dead, and left by the side of the road. I think it was BBC Panarama but it was at least ten years ago and I can't find a video at the moment. as to where you get 300 from - I would assume they didn't all come from Liverppol, and also that this was a campaign to round them up, once rounded up they were probably held and just about fed until some bright spark hit on "re-homing" them. Perhaps it was not 300, perhaps it was 30, but even catching 30 foxes in a day is extra-ordinary for a hunt that would usually expect to catch two only if very lucky, and often simply none.

This isn't a story I got from someone who is pro-hunting, anyway.

How much would such an operation cost how long would it take and how would it be accounted for since it is illegal and would have to be kept off the books?
As I say, I believe this particular case was before the ban.

Having said that - here's some Cornish accounts, from just a few years ago: http://www.cornwalllive.com/urban-fo...ail/story.html

Here's a Torygraph link to the Parliamentary questions on this a few years back:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/eart...-farmland.html

Farmer shoots ten foxes after he loses 32 lambs:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/28/farmer...illed-5778656/

The loss of so many lambs on Exmoor to predators, and so many foxes letting themselves get shot is extra-ordinary.

And another account from Swindon: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/n...left_in_woods/

How did the Black Torrington hunt catch so many liverpudlian foxes in a single day?
Presumably because the fell into the categories I mentioned earlier and were easily caught? As I said, I am relaying the story to you third hand, so the number may be inflated but that doesn't make it untrue.

Sorry, but if you just repeat clearly false stories you heard because you think they support your viewpoint then your viewpoint is obviously not well thought out.
Sure, no big cats released onto the Moors either... Nope, nothing ever escaped from Dartmoor Zoo!

Fox hunting serves one purpose , its fun. Well its fun if you like riding with few restrictions on where you can go , and its fun for the followers who like to watch people riding.
Other than that there is no logical arguement which can suppoprt it, it is a highly inefficient method to achieve what it claims it wants to achieve to achieve
Fox hunting aims to control the population - all other methods of "control" are actually culling or outright extermination.

While we're on the subject of Urban Myths, here's Chris Packham telling us foxes never attack humans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-animal.html

Here are two articles from the BBC about Urban foxes attacking babies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10251349

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-2140...fox-recovering