tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post428866110642598879..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Sun Pundit Countryside FailTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-55765282418008239252015-05-31T22:34:32.594+01:002015-05-31T22:34:32.594+01:00@ Peter
"I wonder how La Mensch would explai...@ Peter<br /><br />"I wonder how La Mensch would explain those 'natural deaths of hunting'."<br /><br />Perhaps the falling off your horse attempting to jump a fence whilst under the influence of too much of the stirrup cup? <br /><br />The runaway horse jumped over the fence but it fell<br />The runaway horse jumped over the fence but it fell<br />The runaway horse fell on her back, and gave her rider a nasty crack<br />Sent him to hell, hell, hell, hell, oh hell.<br />robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-28940029598141155372015-05-31T19:45:32.479+01:002015-05-31T19:45:32.479+01:00If ripping apart an animal was humane, why doesn&#...If ripping apart an animal was humane, why doesn't vets use that method to put pets to sleep?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-481597163323052332015-05-31T12:49:20.673+01:002015-05-31T12:49:20.673+01:00I wonder how La Mensch would explain those 'na...I wonder how La Mensch would explain those 'natural deaths of hunting'.<br /><br />She could go on to expound on the notion that foxes have a sense of fun - and how that squares with her hatred of anthropomorphism.peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-49452935549535609722015-05-31T10:17:15.842+01:002015-05-31T10:17:15.842+01:00Max Hastings - a supporter of fox hunting supporte...Max Hastings - a supporter of fox hunting supporter - said years ago that hunters would have a much better argument if they conceded that they just do it for fun. No one has ever believed any different, and their talking about "pest control" is generally seen as the piece of mendaciousness that it is.<br /><br />Malcolm Redfellow - and shooting a fox (as I know from Wodehouse) is seen as worst thing a huntsman can do (depletes the stock).Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698850550636271224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-3856707333280992652015-05-30T18:55:46.017+01:002015-05-30T18:55:46.017+01:00Foxes don't kill for fun. The idea that they d...Foxes don't kill for fun. The idea that they do is pure anthropomorphism. Only humans kill for fun: killing for any other predator is just instinct. They would take everything they kill "Back to the burrow", but they can only carry one at a time.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698850550636271224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-659535023377258202015-05-30T18:48:32.821+01:002015-05-30T18:48:32.821+01:00When Anthony Eden did the decent thing and resigne...When Anthony Eden did the decent thing and resigned the Foreign Secretary job, his successor was Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax.<br /><br />In November 1937 Halifax decided to cement relations with his German opposites by accepting an invitation from Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring to a hunting exhibition in Berlin. This he did in his capacity as Master of the Middleton (Yorkshire) Hunt.<br /><br />Halifax then joined Göring, shooting foxes in the east of the Reich.<br /><br />He then went on to Berchtesgaden, and mistook the late and unlamented Führer for a footman.<br /><br />Says it all really.Malcolm Redfellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11907427518823910875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-75551572170465160652015-05-30T18:48:25.218+01:002015-05-30T18:48:25.218+01:00And I thought that fox hunting was just a pastime ...And I thought that fox hunting was just a pastime for R S Surtees to be able to write a lot of Jorrocks.<br /><br />In his day, the fox was thought so much a pest that they were specially bred, or given plenty of room to breed, just to keep "the sport" alive. And when a hunt day was in prospect the entrances to the lairs were stopped so that the foxes couldn't go to ground. <br /><br />Landowners that didn't "keep" foxes or allow access to the fox hunters were frowned on by many of the locals as horses, fodder, saddlery etc formed a major part of the economy. <br /><br />I believe Surtees enjoyed hunting for the exhilaration of the chase but he could see the incongruities too. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-86843816728567996242015-05-30T17:41:39.217+01:002015-05-30T17:41:39.217+01:00Hunting with horses and hounds was a C19 solution ...Hunting with horses and hounds was a C19 solution to a shortage of cavalry cannon fodder, it is not a particularly effective way of controlling fox numbers. Curiously enough, up here in Scotland, where foxes can decimate the vast numbers of pheasants reared for shooting (a pheasant having little or no brain, no discernable instinct for survival, and the aerodynamic qualities of a housebrick, is not best suited to avoid a clever predator), the gamekeepers don't waste time fannying about on horses, they go out at night and shoot them. Seems to work, they wouldn't do it otherwise.Lampyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447498546497984483noreply@blogger.com