| Fox hunting is a traditional and royal hunting sport, | | | | leagues urge to ban such a brutal and bloody |
| popularized all over the world by the British. | | | | pastime. |
| Hunting dogs or foxhounds are trained to chase | | | | Hunting chases often result in serious damages to |
| and attack foxes from their hiding places, and | | | | private properties, uninvited killing of pet cats and |
| these are followed by hunters on the horses. | | | | dogs, and destructions on the road and railway |
| Hunting with hounds is outlawed and forbidden in | | | | lines. Sometimes the hounds themselves are |
| countries holding high values of animal welfare. In | | | | crushed under trains or killed by the fox. Thus the |
| these countries this sport is considered an ethically | | | | horses and dogs participating in the hunt are also |
| wrong and barbarian process. | | | | hurt and killed during the furious chase. Hunt-chaos |
| Due to frequent hunting, the fox population has | | | | has been ended with the introduction of The |
| significantly dropped. Hunting is nowadays confined | | | | Hunting Act, strictly allowing hunting only on a |
| to merely chasing the animals to holes in the | | | | pre-set line. The government is suggesting |
| ground. On the other hand, in early times the | | | | methods like shooting, trapping and poisoning, |
| earth was blocked up overnight to prevent the | | | | instead of pursuing with the hounds. But this hasn't |
| foxes from escaping into the ground. They were | | | | lessened suffering as the poor animals are more |
| chased for hours so that they die in extreme | | | | intensively shot and wounded. |
| stress and fatigue. If at all they escape, they | | | | In the context of strong opposition to fox-hunting, |
| gradually die of heart-lung bleeding, brain injury or | | | | the supporters claim that hunting is essential to |
| pneumonia. Once they are dug out from the | | | | prevent economic downslide for rural communities |
| ground, instead of shooting them, men throw | | | | and is a humanistic way of conservation because |
| them to the waiting-dogs to tear them alive. | | | | the excessive breeding of foxes may result in the |
| Sometimes they are killed simply by bopping their | | | | wiping out of the hen and lamb population. |
| heads with spade. This accounts why anti-hunting | | | | |