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Welfare Aspects of Shooting Foxes.A Study for The All Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group.N Fox, S Rivers, N Blay, AG Greenwood, D Wise. Fox hunting differs from most of the prohibited
animal-baiting sports in at least one important respect.
If bear baiting, dog or cock fighting or hare coursing are successfully
banned the animals involved will not be killed, and their welfare can reasonably
be supposed to have been improved. Foxes
are different. They are vermin and
if not killed by hunting would have to be shot.
It is far from clear that this would be preferable for the fox. Once caught by a pack of hounds all foxes die within moments.
If shot and wounded they may suffer for days before eventually succumbing
to their wounds. This report is a
scientific study of the risks of wounding from shooting.
Unsurprisingly they vary with the type of gun, the skill of the marksman
and whether wounded animals are flushed out my dogs.
Nevertheless it is clear
that if hunting is banned many more foxes will be shot and wounded and suffer
lingering painful deaths than if hunting is permitted in a carefully controlled
manner. Jim Thornton Nottingham 10 Oct 2003 Copies available from The All Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group. c/o Lembit Opik MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA |
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