I cannot see the harm in foxhunting

PERSONALLY, I think that anything that gets people out in the fresh air and taking exercise is a good thing.

As for hunting foxes – I live in an area of Bristol with many late night fast food shops and takeaways around me. As a result, there is always half-eaten plastic and paper based food containers thrown on the street every morning. Thankfully, we have a community (I am afraid I do not know what the collective name for foxes is) of foxes who regularly go round late at night eating up what has been left in the discarded contents of the containers. They keep down the rat and mice population and so are a godsend!

As for the countryside – I would have thought that foxes must also go round cleaning up road kill, etc.

As for the riders and horses – how lovely to be able to live in an area that does not have a motorway going through it and where people can ride and enjoy the company of others.

At least the fox is killed instantly and in situ when it is caught. Not like other animals, who have to endure miserable journeys to large markets, herded around an arena and then transported in lorries to the Continent, as happens with farm animals sent for export, or killed using the Halal method which is carried out daily.

Bristol and surrounding villages have all been eaten up with huge housing developments, so all of our ‘green spaces’ have been covered over with housing and shopping developments. The air quality is also deteriorating, as more cars are needed to travel into Bristol and

Bath using the increasing number of roads needed to accommodate them. Unless any cruelty is allowed, I cannot see the harm in foxhunting. Mrs A Earl

Bristol