The stupid hunt ....

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yes well annoying :mad: the 2nd day after my horse arrived was just about to set off for a hack wen hunt went past, wouldnt have minded if they had let my yard know! but they hadnt! so u can imagine the problems
 
im sorry but its not there job to let you know, if your horse cant deal with company thats your issue, not theirs. find out hunt days and where they meet and a rough route in advance if you want, but it is entirely your job to check.

im sure if it had been an "endurance ride" then you wouldnt have been fussed :rolleyes:
 
india said:
I disagree, the ban was and still is a step in the right direction for animal welfare. Admittedly there's loopholes that need to be filled in, but given time this will be done.

Without a doubt, I will be voting labour at every election to hopefully ensure this barbaric sport is never again legalised.
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So, forget raging inflation, forget higher taxes, forget rising unemployment, lets not worry about education going to pot. who cares that people now go to hospital to get ill. Hospitals that have no money. people having their houses repossed. As long as the fox lives a happy live under labour we shall all be happy. Hmm, let me think about that one :rolleyes:
 
SmallHunter said:
As much as we like to think we are civilised i really don't think we are. We pat ourselves on the back when we 'think' we have done something good when in fact we are probably not much better people than we were a few hundred years ago. I think sometimes people forget that hunting is actually a natural instinct for humans as well as animals how do you think we survived all those thousands of years? Why do we get such an adrenaline rush when we do it?
I don't want to argue but i don't understand what gives anyone the right to tell them what they can and can't do
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The difference is, humans have a higher conscience and awareness of the suffering that other humans and animals are subjected to when hunted. We *should* know better than to put any creature through pain or torture.
I certainly have never in my life got an adrenaline rush from the thought or act of chasing something with intent to capture or harm it. Except the odd philandering ex boyfriend :p
 
Madame_Sarah said:
Haha....it's always the townie labour voters who are "more important" than anyone whose village holds fewer than 500 dwellings. They could shout about (and probably change) the fact that people in rural areas get cheaper bus fares into town than they do in the land of suburbia, when in fact, our buses run once a day, and are full-to-bursting...different point entirely, but the fact is that most of the people who are opposed to hunting can't see past the end of their smog-dusted little noses to the wider picture of tradition, community and reality of country life.

If it's something that people enjoy, that brings isolated communities together, and provides a livelihood for those people, why should anyone else interfere with something that is entirely none of their business?

Thank goodness that the hunters take absolutely no notice - watched the rather lovely hunt leave from my yard last weekend, and they were a very happy, very lovely - none-snobby - bunch! God bless free-will and freedom!
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Have a barn dance :p

Other people interfere because its nothing other than murder. Simple as.

Not all anti hunt people are townies either. Some country folk actually love animals, all of them, not just the ones that they use for their own pleasure.
 
rippling~wave said:
The difference is, humans have a higher conscience and awareness of the suffering that other humans and animals are subjected to when hunted. We *should* know better than to put any creature through pain or torture.
I certainly have never in my life got an adrenaline rush from the thought or act of chasing something with intent to capture or harm it. Except the odd philandering ex boyfriend :p
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Putting hunting aside for a moment, if we humans are so compassionate about animals why do the Kennel Club encourage breed standards that are actually detrimental to dogs? The Ridge on a Rhodesain Ridgeback is due to a genetic disorder similar to spina biffida in humans. "Normal" dogs without the ridge are often pts as not conforming to the breed standard. With horses why is it encouraged that show cobs should be verging on obese?
 
Kc.. said:
The hunt met about a 5minute walk from me today, god was i ever annoyed that they hadn't let me know. I'd loved to of gone!
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LOL classic! You do realise you also have a great connection with the subject matter a la Nimby :p
 
Haphazard said:
Putting hunting aside for a moment, if we humans are so compassionate about animals why do the Kennel Club encourage breed standards that are actually detrimental to dogs? The Ridge on a Rhodesain Ridgeback is due to a genetic disorder similar to spina biffida in humans. "Normal" dogs without the ridge are often pts as not conforming to the breed standard. With horses why is it encouraged that show cobs should be verging on obese?
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Because the KC are perfection obsessed idiots stuck in a time warp ;)

Anyone that breeds without thought to an animals health is just a greedy fool :)
 
im sorry but its not there job to let you know, if your horse cant deal with company thats your issue, not theirs. find out hunt days and where they meet and a rough route in advance if you want, but it is entirely your job to check.
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That's rather harsh, 40 horses thundering past at speed is not something the average horse can be conditioned to very easily if at all, and the consequences of a horse reacting badly can be serious. Because of that the onus should be on the hunt to warn people in the area out of common decency. Comments like the above simply confirm people's worst prejudices about hunters and hunting.

If the hunt went galloping past the end of your horse's field unnanounced what would happen?
 
Yann said:
That's rather harsh, 40 horses thundering past at speed is not something the average horse can be conditioned to very easily if at all, and the consequences of a horse reacting badly can be serious. Because of that the onus should be on the hunt to warn people in the area out of common decency. Comments like the above simply confirm people's worst prejudices about hunters and hunting.

If the hunt went galloping past the end of your horse's field unnanounced what would happen?
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But if hunts go around advertising their whereabouts it could lead to attracting the attention of undesirables

Yann said:
If the hunt went galloping past the end of your horse's field unnanounced what would happen?
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Hmm, they would end up on the M5 motorway :D:D
 
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