In reply to nniff:
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End of the show?
This stays on show for years + years...
I appreciate that the OP has apologised, thanks.
However, with getting the point i have made, it's possible that i could be waiting much longer than for cows to come home with some respondents here, although in my field, they would be coming home for a cuddle, but in yours, maybe as part of the factory process you have them enslaved in?
I think it's rather unfortunate that most respondents + their likers here seem very misguided by what they find funny.
This is not funny.
Had the title instead tried to be jokey by involving racism, sexism, homophobia, etc or some sick crime involving children, the elderly, or adults, you would probably agree with my objection quite easily, + you certainly wouldn't be complaining about a lack of a sense of humour or telling me to shut up, or coming across with a farty patronising tone, mr Reeve, or perhaps implying you think i've lost the plot, Mr Bobbling? Mountain martin... I can help you with that.... foxes + cats, and other animals, they can't quite read. I thought u might have known.... so they might just be happy for some human beings to get involved with stopping them being bullied, abused, or exploited.
So because it involves an animal, + perhaps in your opinions it's "just wildlife", being totured by a group of bullying violent thugs on horse back + quads, who think they are above the law, armed with a pack of dogs with the stamina to eventually out run the animal, to the point of exhaustion so that it can't escape, with inevitable consequences, of it being dismembered + ripped apart by hounds, regardless of whether its a cub or pregnant vixen, you think that's something that's ok to be humoured? How can it be, unless you agree with it?
Would it also be ok to do it to your pet cat / dog / rabbit, torture a friend, or anyone else from your family etc.?
Add to that volunteers who attend to monitor + disrupt the hunt are violently assaulted regularly whilst the police if they attend do nothing to try to intervene, rather seem only concerned with allowing the hunt, which is illegal, to continue, because the police are corrupt, have high + low ranking officers involved in the hunt + are supported in doing nothing about it by corrupt politicians, including current political leaders.
Within the next month or two they'll be out surrounding copses and sending their trainee hounds in to learn how to kill, by practicing on the fox cubs.
Cruelty to animals, disguised as a pompous "tradition", is not fun.
Couple of more fitting quotes than the careless stuff seen in your posts above....
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
I think some of your responses seem barking mad, or as mad as a march hare, but i am as snug as a bug in a rug, and sorry but no i don't have a bee in my bonnet, + i'm not the black sheep of the family, + no doubt one of you is going to suggest that i should get off my high horse, but i just had to go the whole hog, but you lot can go to the dogs, cos although i'm not a green eyed monster, i'm laughing like a cheshire cat, like a bat out of hell, but you might think i'm a lame duck, is this a kangaroo court? Who let the cat out of the bag? Was i like a moth to a flame? Feels like being savaged by a dead sheep, + you seem to be lions lead by donkeys, am i making a pigs ear of this? Perhaps i should make a bee line for it... but pigs might fly! So just never, never, look a gift horse in the mouth. Ok? Straight from the horses mouth! Bit of a shaggy dog story? Is it raining cats n dogs? Perhaps i've got ants in my pants. I'm off to take a cat nap now.
Notice i missed all the animal phrases that don't involve deliberate cruelty, but it's your turn now.
R-Tooth-achey
Post edited at 15:56