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  Barry, in the interests of animal welfare the foxes should be left alone and not killed at all! Why is the ban any more unworkable than any other law that prohibits someone from doing something?
  
  Andy, I think you raise some good points about the implications of the ban, e.g. the loss of employment. It is possible to make vague defences for fox hunting but as you say this is really about 'the Tory gentry enjoying their rural blood sports'. And let's face it, if anything is 'silly' it is this 'sport'. I have little or no concern for the welfare of foxes and appreciate the problems they can create. To suggest a bunch of horse mounted gentry with a pack of hounds to kill one fox is a solution is simply ridiculous. I find it an insult that the supporters of fox hunting even bother to conjure up defences of this mindless activity. Fox hunting is about tradition, nothing more and tradition is an excuse for nothing. Or are they trying to tell us it is impossible to keep the fox population down without wearing a green or red jacket, riding a horse and blowing a bugle....it's just laughable.
  
  It is true that dogs have had to put down, but this won't happen again, job done. As for the people made redundant by the ban, why don't the good people of middle rural Britain employ them to keep the fox population down? Trap them or shoot them but we don't need to bring this silly 'sport' back in the name of tradition or child safety!

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