Don't worry about "fox control" - by far the most important form of fox control, in the form of people running them over, will carry on as before. Fox numbers are bounded by resources, as with pretty much any animal population, and plenty of them die on the roads; the few extra killed by hunting make no real difference.
Really, the arguments proffered in favour of the hunt remind me of nothing so much as the story stammered by a man found naked with another man's wife, trying to explain how they got paint on all their clothes and then while they were changing he was reaching for something and fell on top of her. People don't hunt foxes because they need to control their numbers - they do it because it's fun. If numbers were their main concern, they would stick to shooting them; it would be far cheaper, and somehow I don't think they were plumping for hunting because they were worried about cruelty to the fox...
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Date: 2004-11-27 04:08 am (UTC)Really, the arguments proffered in favour of the hunt remind me of nothing so much as the story stammered by a man found naked with another man's wife, trying to explain how they got paint on all their clothes and then while they were changing he was reaching for something and fell on top of her. People don't hunt foxes because they need to control their numbers - they do it because it's fun. If numbers were their main concern, they would stick to shooting them; it would be far cheaper, and somehow I don't think they were plumping for hunting because they were worried about cruelty to the fox...