Firstly I shall be looking into the arguments that are against the use of hounds to hunt foxes and that are supporting the ban in this 'sport'. The main argument that a person would put across who was in favor of a ban would be the cruelty to the fox that is being hunted. Personally the thought of a fox being ripped apart by a pack of blood thirsty hounds distresses me and a large proportion of this country. According to the RSPCA which I feel is a rather bias source hunting foxes using hounds is more damaging to the fox than conventional hunting methods. For example shooting or poisoning the fox to cut down on fox numbers. The fox go

Over 70% of the countries most powerful people the Members of Parliament, share the views of most of the population of the United Kingdom. As recently the MPs voted to ban fox hunting in this country by a overwhelming majority. This ban will come into force after it faces confrontation with the Lords. This was a very significant vote as it could change the face of our countryside forever (see newspaper article).

To find out what people living in my local area thought about the proposed ban of fox hunting I decided to conduct a survey to see if people were for or against a ban of this controversial 'sport'. I posed the question 'To what extent to you support or oppose a ban on hunting with dogs in Britain'? These were my results:

es through immense stress as it is found to be killed by the hounds. People who are for fox hunting say that they harm farm animals and crops. But according to the RSPCA the fox is a rather harmless animal and the animals that it does kill on the farm are relatively weak animals and therefore are not much good to the farmer because the fox doesn't want to waste energy chasing lambs and healthy animals as they only account for 1% of lamb deaths on farms. Another argument would be that foxes are very good pest killers such as mice and other rodents which tend to destroy crops on farms. They are also very good at cleaning after humans by eating human rubbish so in a way they clean up the surrounding area. During a fox hunt the fox that is being hunted suffers huge amounts of stress as usually the fox is on the run for up to two to three hours. Sometimes foxes are killed by suffocation with having large amounts of soil in their lungs as they sometimes dig for hours to try and escape from the pack of hounds.

There are also many arguments in favor of hunting with hounds these are mainly expressed by people who actually do fox hunting themselves and earn a living around the 'sport'. The biggest argument is that it creates large amounts of jobs for people living in both rural and urban areas. These include stable owners and manufacturers of hunting equipment

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