Colin said:

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this is why I don't mind fox hunting coz thats like the shoe on the other foot

well, I don't know about that, after all the foxes may not have eaten the rabbit as they were scared of the humans so closeby. Also, foxes hunting rabbits is natural, humans hunting foxes is different as they use advantages such as horses, huge packs of dogs and guns. The rabbit had far more chance of escape than the average fox. The foxes are driven out of their natural habitat as it's destroyed to make homes for humans, they have to go through our rubbish (and even attack out beloved pets) in order to scrape some sort of survival. I'm of course sorry that your rabbit was killed, but I'll bet that if you'd left it, the foxes would have indeed eaten it. And ask yourself this, was the fox (who was acting on a natural hunting instinct) really evil, compared to, say, a bunch of toffs who marvel at a fox being torn from limb to limb by a bloodthirsty pack of dogs? A fox killed my guinea pig once, but although I was upset, I could accept it as part of the natural order of things, I mean, we kill cows and pigs and many other animals, don't we. Oh, and I'm not an animal rights campaigner, vegetarian or anything like that, I just try to see the picture from all points of view, that's all. -- Jason Andreas -- Anyone Can Play Air Guitar -- /-----------------------\ | Drop The Debt | \-----------------------/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+