Sleeping with the enemy

DURING the hunting season, I receive daily emails about illegal hunting from colleagues who keep a watch on the news.

This morning I received an email about a hunt in Worcestershire which reportedly rampaged through the garden of a Mrs Cash, who was standing there with her five-year-old grandson.

According to the report, they watched in horror as hounds dragged a fox out from under bushes and savaged it to death.

Not surprisingly, the hunt claimed it was an accident. They said it was being flushed out to a bird of prey.

Well, if anyone believes that, then they need their heads testing.

Hunts are consistently breaking the law and getting away with it.

Everyone knows that, but still this government does nothing about it.

I think what really astounds me, is how cold-hearted huntspeople are. I mean, for them to stand by and watch while a pack of hounds inflict grotesque cruelty onto an animal, is surely man at his most bestial.

Another news snippet I received (this time regarding an Irish hunt) told how on November 4, a fox was dug out, had its legs tied together, then was fed live to the hounds. 

It's horrific!

 No wonder I'm shaking with anger as I write this blog.

I just can't believe that in this day and age, this kind of terrible cruelty is still being allowed. It's supposed to have been banned. We shouldn't be having to witness atrocities like these anymore.

MPs and other leading figures know full well that foxes are not vermin, but still they allow the hierarchy to use them for sport. 

It's obvious that hunts have been given concessions by this government. One of which was to allow them to use a fox-based scent. This is utter madness in areas where foxes were previously hunted. 

It gives these people all the excuse they need to “accidentally” kill a fox.

Ministers know full well that real drag hunts only use artificial scents, and that their hounds are trained to follow that scent.

But these government figures are too afraid to stand up against the mighty Countryside Alliance. Instead, they allow them the right to ride roughshod over the law. 

I can still see these so called anti-hunt MPs back in 2005, giving themselves a pat on the back for partially banning hunting with dogs.

But then they all scuttled off to hide behind their highly polished desks when they saw that their half-baked plan wasn't working.

Since then, they've refused to revisit this issue.

This is not democracy - this is betrayal. 

Despite the protestations of hunts and their supporters, foxes are not all that plentiful in the countryside.

For a start they are territorial, chasing out any outside foxes. This is why hunts have been known to use artificial earths in a bid to encourage them to breed. It's funny how hunt supporters always neglect to mention this when banging the drum about the need to control foxes.

The only way we are ever going to get hunts people to stop sadisticall killing foxes, is if we elect solid MPs who are not afraid to take on the rich and powerful blood-sports lobby.

Unfortunately New Labour has been sleeping up with the enemy (Countryside Alliance) for the last couple of years.

So until these traitorous MPs are replaced by the good and the brave, these sadistic hunters will continue to inflict terror into the hearts of our wildlife and those of us who detest their cruelty.