globalloon wrote:
from chambers dictionary
vermin singular or plural noun: 1 a collective name for wild animals that spread disease or generally cause a nuisance
i’ve heard a lot of pro-hunting people say foxes kill more than they eat…. just like humans then.
Foxes do kill more than they can eat, but so do many other carnivorous animals – killer whales often only eat a small amount of things they hunt, cats not only kill for fun, but toy with the things they kill (we have a cat nicknamed Torquemouser for the way she tortures rodents :scared:) – it’s not an uncommon thing…
But foxes are very much a nuisance to farmers (anyone who’s been on a sheep farm will know this), and do need to be controlled some way. I’m totally against hunting in the hunt lobby sense, but hunting them with a gun is necessary IMO (I’ve been hunting with a gun, and also think that if you eat meat, you should be prepared to kill and dress it yourself). Riding after them with a bunch of hounds is unnecessarily cruel, and hideously inefficient though…
