I guess very few of you live or work in the countryside, please remember that the fox is vermin and will kill anything it can just for the hell of it whether it needs to eat or not,
it will wipe out hen house of 30 hen's and take only 1 but still bite the heads off the other 29.
The only good thing's to come out of the hunting ban is the fact that hunt memberships have increased and more people go out lamping at night so there are more foxes being killed now than before, where as they would of left a few for the hunt to try and find, the hunt will only find one fox every 3 or 4 outings.
Sorry to disappoint a few of you but very few of the people who ride with the hunt are toffs, the hounds are normally very quick to kill the fox as they know it has the capacity to injure them.
The hunt does so much for the farmers who's land they cross, they take all the dead stock that now a days cost the farmer an arm and leg to dispose of, they will fix fence's etc.
If people want to hunt let them, The Badger now there's another one that need's controlling.