Please sign petition to help English and Welsh foxes

So this isn’t Kpop related, but please just spare a few minutes to help prevent the horrific abuse of animals.

 

The British Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to bring back fox hunting full scale, with the use of dogs. It’s a disgusting bloodsport in which defenceless, terrified foxes are chased for miles by packs of 30+ dogs and horses, only to finally fall from exhaustion and be brutally torn apart.

 

A former fox hunter, Clifford Pellow, who took part in the so-called sport for over 20 years and was involved in the deaths of over 2000 foxes but now apposes it has spoken up about what exactly happens to these poor foxes. He says, “I know from my own long experience it is a lie to say fox hunting is sport.

"In sport both teams have the same chance. Hunting is completely unequal because one fox is being chased by 35 hounds.

"The fox is also at a disadvantage because it is a nocturnal creature being chased in daylight.

““The things we were doing to foxes was just ­unbelievable. We would put them in sacks.

“We tied them up by the legs and dragged them across the fields to leave a scent. It was absolutely disgusting.

“In the end I got sick of all the gross cruelty and all the killing.”

 

He talks about how he watched dogs drag a pregnant female from her den and rip her apart, and the hunt master then crush her squirming, unborn babies to death under his feet.

 

He went on to say, “On one occasion we had a live fox in a sack which we tipped out in the field, but before it was tipped out they allowed the hounds to bite into the sack.

“There were other times when foxes were brought from somewhere else, so they didn’t know where they were. This meant that they ran with their head up.

"A fox brought in was trapped in a wood and then allowed to run across a few fields into a farm where it fell into the slurry pit. The farmer’s son shot it.

“It fell in because it didn’t know the pit was there, simple as that.

“Another time they dragged a fox across a couple of fields into a dry ditch before flinging the rope over a branch of a tree.

"They hoisted it up, and then let it drop a bit so the hounds could bite it. They kept doing this to work the hounds up. In the end they just dropped it into the pack of hounds.”

 

“I remember looking at the fox being kept in the milk churn and thinking, ‘Tomorrow, you’ll be dead’. They are lovely creatures. I am totally ashamed at my cruelty to those animals.

“It’s quite awful, quite barbaric really. What I myself did was quite awful.”

 

He spoke about when a dog clamped its jaws down around the middle of a fox. The fox got loose and ran another 50 yards with its entrails hanging out before the other dogs finished her off.

 

On people defending this barbarism he says, “It is nonsense and lies to say hunting has anything to do with ­controlling a pest in the countryside. When I worked on a farm, it was more effective to flush foxes out with two sheepdogs than with a pack of dogs.

"It’s got to be the worst method of fox control. There are more foxes killed on the motorways than killed by hounds.

“The hunting fraternity have a lot of excuses for hunting but not one justification. The only justification is to kill something at the end of the day.

“They could easily go drag hunting, where the hounds follow a scent, if it was about camaraderie.

“It is cruel. There is no other way of saying it. In all my years of working in hunts and on farms, I never once saw evidence of a fox hurting a lamb.

“It is not true. And if that were a ­justification, they shouldn’t be hunting with hounds anyway because dogs kill sheep. This is another of the excuses.”

 

But it’s not just the foxes who suffer, the dogs trained and used to kill also suffer at the hands of this so-called sport. Pellow says, “They don’t mention the fact they shoot dead the hounds when they are seven or eight years old. There is no love lost. They shoot them with no more feeling than shooting a rat. It’s not just foxes that suffer.”

 

On the Prime Minister wanting to bring it back he says, “There is no doubt at all this vote is about bringing fox hunting back to what it was before the ban. It is not about the hunting, it is about being able to go and kill ­something. That is what they want most of all.

“Cameron has always said he will repeal the Hunting Act. I think this week’s vote is a way of repealing the act through the back door. I hope MPs use their common sense and remember this is the 21st century.”

 

8 out of 10 British people are against fox hunting and do not want it back. It is an activity of the so-called ‘high class’, you’re average Brit has no desire to go out and slaughter foxes for fun. These individuals aren’t nice people, my mum learnt that first hand when she protested fox hunting in her younger days. She’d go to the hunts along with other animal lovers to try and block them. These ‘high class’, apparently well-bred fox hunters were awful people; they would charge their horses at the protesters, which is extremely dangerous as a horse running into a person could very easily kill them, they’d also kick the protesters from up on their horses, even kick them in the face. Luckily my mum didn’t get hurt, but a good friend of her’s was kicked in the face and had her nose broken. She was a young 19 year old girl trying to protect animals kicked in the face by a grown man.

 

These people are nothing but blood thirsty barbarians in fancy clothes, and shouldn’t be allowed to bring back this disgusting bloodsport.

 

Please help stop this by signing here: https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-keep-the-ban-on-fox-hunting-2?recruiter=12280835&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

 

Thank you!

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