Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Your missing the point , if they are a pest they should be culled in a humane way and not just an excuse to carry on an outdated cruel tradition.

Public hangings used to be a day out for the locals. Also you might say that there is no essential difference between humans and monkeys but would you like to be forced to take part in lab experments and be hunted for food or caged in a zoo ?

If you went on the opinion of the public then we would have capital punishment. Every opinion poll shows the public want it back. I am not one of them.

I do want foxes killed and I am not bothered whether it is humane or not. I get foxes in my garden and I regard them as a pest. If I was a better shot, I would probably throw a brick at them. I usually have to resort to turning the hose on them or painting the fence area where they come through with non-setting tar paint. The council is not interested. The fox lovers groups are not interested (they say I should be pleased to have foxes in my garden).

At the end of the day you just have to accept that not every one is bothered whether they are killed humanely or not. It is just a fox and not any different from an ant or some other pest. In a different detting it moight not be a pest. In the country it is regarded as a pest and in cities it is a pest. Maybe on some remote moorland it might not be a pest, but who cares.

I haver had several dogs and currently a cat and treated them very well. That is not to say I am dog or cat lover. I just like my dogs and cats.

So what constitutes being "culled in a humane way"?

It really has nothing to do with killing in a humane way. It is that there is a section of society that resents there being a sporting aspect to the killing.

There has been a fear for some time now amongst anglers that fishing would not be too far down the list of 'inhumane' and cruel sports.

Seal culling is done in a pretty humane way, certainly in terms of speed and suffering. A hunter bashes a seal on the head with a club that has a large spike at the end of it. Death is pretty much instantaneous. That doesn't go down too well with the animal rights people though as it is not pretty (except the seal's face). Of course they don't come up with a better solution to the overpopulation. Would letting them starve to death be better? Shooting is no more humane than the use of the club.

It is just a fox and not any different from an ant ........ lol



Yes, i can see how alike they are.

Essentially an ant is no different from a fox. It is just that people find it easier to apply anthropomorphism to a fox.

Micro



If you reply to my post in answer to yours, i might tell you. anyway shouldn't you know the answer ?

Your answer might be different to mine.

There's 'humane' and there's 'legal'.

In law, common sense very often goes right out the window. So why should the one have any similarity to the other?

I have a few friends who advocate culling a few tories, who they look upon as unnecessary predators. The rest they think should be kept in Zoos.

I think someone, somewhere, somewhere thought they were alike to vermin

(Not my opinion.) (Possibly, help to lose an election.)

Have mixed "feelings" about causing the deaths of members of other species, but "feel" if it "has" to be done, it should be done as painlessly as possible.

I use going coarse fishing, nice day out caught very little and felt it difficult to justify sticking a hook in a fishes mouth, dragging it out of the water and then chucking it back in the water.

However, the majority of fish were very safe when I was about as I caught very few.

Swapped to fly fishing, justifying doing so, as at least, I might eat the products of my effort.

Caught even less, but felt less guilty.

PS.

Greek, I wouldn't cull you.










Perhaps, put you in quarantine until your dangerous "leanings or ideas" were over.

Fred

What's missing from that white space between paragraphs

Thoughts I indulged in and then culled!

8-~)

Fred

Your not getting those pornographic thoughts again ?

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Ald.

Stop looking at my pictures.

Can't remember what pornography is.

NM,

No,

The "Slaughter Man's Weekly".

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Re: The nasty, nasty woman, who stroked the cat a couple of times and then put it into the wheelie bin.

They've identified her. Apparently, she works in a bank. They'd like to give her the sack, but they can't.

They are fearful she might put the cat into it.

Nice one EL -):

..Give her a medal.. I hate mogs -):

I love cat's and most animals ...... the true test of a civilised society is the way it treats its animals.