Why do fox hunters not get prosecuted for animal cruelty?

Question

If you deliberately set a pack of dogs on a cat and let them tear it to pieces you would find yourself in court on Animal Cruelty charges.

So why are foxhunters allowed to do the same thing to foxes and get away with it?

Stephan S - I'm in the UK. Over Here hunting IS illegal but the rich still get away with it.

Carmen150 - no I don't eat any meat ever, I'm strictly vegetarian thanks.

Answer 1

Prince Philip did it yesterday,one rule for them etc....

Answer 2

You don't live in the countryside do you? Next time you see your chicken get ripped apart, or your lambs, or your pet cat. Do let me know.

I am sorry if I sound rude, but I've seen chickens killed and just left on the ground with a leg hanging off, and I had a lamb who got bitten on the head by a fox but survived in a rather gory mess.

And foxes are rather fast, the dogs very rarely catch them. It's more of a hobby where you go out riding with your friends and your dogs and if you catch something then great, if not, never mind. Plus you know, it's a british tradition, and what right does the government have of taking it away?

Answer 3

There is so MUCH cruelty that the fox matter is submerged, hidden, allowed to continue for lack of attention.
Bring it to the attention of those likely to join you in working to get a change for the benefit of the fox.

Answer 4

Sadly, because there is a longstanding tradition of doing exactly that with respect to fox hunting. Oliver Wendell Holmes had a lot to say about using only tradition to justify something....and all of what he said was in the negative.

Answer 5

You cant really use a cat as an analogy. Foxes are seen as vermin and are not people's pets. I'm not justifying foxhunting which is a ridiculous pasttime designed to keep the upperclasses from boffing their own cousins every hour God sends ( the toothy freaks of nature that they are ).

It's just that there are more important things in the world to worry about than a lot of small genepool, tweed wearing, chump-nuts going out on great big horses in order to kill, maul and destroy a type of ginger dog.....innit?

Answer 6

I been saying this for years! Right enough where I live they tend to just shoot foxes. By 'lamping' them (catching animal in spotlight and aiming at reflected light from its eyes). We are a protected species! Try shiiteing yourself every time you hear a horn. Just coz we're not snivelling lick-spittles like dogs or two-faced gold diggers like cats doesn't mean rich boys should get their jollies torturing us.

Hare coursers, badger baiters, c ock fighters all scum.

Answer 7

In the Uk they no longer get to do that as freely as they used to. Lets hope soon they will not be able to at all. As Oscar Wilde once said of the people who did so ." The unspeakable chasing the Uneatable.

Answer 8

people have been doing it for sooooo long that it helped keep the fox population to a good limit. now that no one is allowed to do that anymore, there will be a few to many.
do you eat meat? ever seen how some of them are kept? and how they are killed?

Answer 9

you got the answer yourself, because they're rich, friends of the judges and top police bods. you go to prison in this country for listening to a Princes answer machine messeges but a child molester goes free, great British Justice.

Answer 10

Cause it's legal to hunt foxes

Answer 11

The law allows them to.