Friday, 18 February, 2005 16:44
Should hunting continue? | |
|  | | The New Forest Hounds |
| | The New Forest was created as a royal hunting ground almost 900 years ago and hunting has taken place in the area ever since - hunting with dogs finally became illegal at midnight on 18th February, but should it be allowed to continue? |
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| Steve , Ringwood | Comment: MOST OF THE COMMENTS ON THE THIS HAVE BEEN FROM CITY DWELLERS. WHAT I WANT TO KNOW DO THEY WEAR LEATHER COATS,SHOES OR ANYTHING MADE OF COW HIDES. HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE PUT DOWN MOUSE TRAPS OR POISON FOR RATS.I WISH THEY WOULD WORRY MORE ABOUT STATE OF THE POSSIBLITY OF US GOING TO WAR AND THE LOSS OF OUR BOYS & GIRLS OUT THERE. | |
| Lizzie, Southampton | | Comment: hunting with dogs is evil i am only 13 but i know the difference between right and wrong and i know that hunting with dogs is VERY wrong | |
| The Agister's view is interesting to say the least. Particularly his comment on the benifet of hunting moving animals about the forest. This was one of the very reasons that the Verderers and some foresters did not want Draghunting on the Forest. The responsability of removing deadstock should not rely on good will but should be put on an official basis and if need be paid for by government via the Verderers at the going rate. My hounds are fed a propriety feed as it is far too costly to run a nacker service. | | Michael Thomas, Master of Draghounds, Ringwood | |
I do not think Fox Hunting should be banned because it has been a tradition in the forest and we do not know the changes to the forest that banning fox hunting would cause. When the Buck Hounds were forced to stop hunting, do you know that a whole herd of deer has to be rounded up and shot. I did not witness this, but what is crueller, shooting a whole herd of deer, or hunt them, where only the old and week would be killed? The deer have to be culled!
Also the same happens to colts. The forest has to be managed and colts grow into stallions and we cannot have too many on the forest, so the colts are rounded up and if they are not brought, they have to be slaughtered. People are too quick to want to ban things in this country and not think of the outcome. The forest cannot sustain a vast amount of animals and that is why we have the forest because of all the people that have hunted and worked on it for years and years and we should appreciate the hard work and efforts they have achieved for us to have a forest at all. | | Debbie Allan, New Milton |
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