Blood Sports

• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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  28 May 2010     22:3453849
  #1      
  An exhibition on at the moment in Durham, based on blood sports, feature`s this painting from 1844 as the centre piece. Called `The Otter Speared`, it portrays an otter speared and writhing above a pack of baying hounds. The painter is Sir Edwin Landseer who also sculptured those famous lions in Trafalgar Square. The painting has been withheld from public view until now for being too gruesome. Looks worse than fox hunting. A nostalgic painting from Victorian times, or an example of the vulgar side of Victorian society?

  
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 May 2010     10:0453893
  #2      
  not something our forebears can be proud of
• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  29 May 2010     10:3353904
  #3      
  I have a large picture of a hunting scene on the wall of my lounge. It shows dogs killing the murderous fox. We are too squeamish about such matters these days.
• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  29 May 2010     10:4053906
  #4      
  I quite agree Sid. We live too isolated from nature and that makes us too soft.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  29 May 2010     11:2153921
  #5      
  Even as a veggie I can see that! Children in particular often fail to see the connection between the food on the plate and the animal in the field. Sad.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 May 2010     14:4053945
  #6      
  murder is a part of life, i still do not want to witness one though.
• Melissa Pile

  • Location: Dover
  29 May 2010     16:2353964
  #7      
  i dont agree on any hunting what so ever no need for such as the posh call "sports" on defenceless animals.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 May 2010     17:3453970
  #8      
  leave barry out of this melissa, his bloodline demands that he engages in country pursuits.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  29 May 2010     17:4753974
  #9      
  The current cabinet could be re-named "sports on defenceless animals" the way the Tories have preyed on the LibDems.........
• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  29 May 2010     19:4754017
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• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  29 May 2010     19:5554026
  #11      
  The Tories intend to repeal the ban on foxhunting.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)