So watching a pack of hyenas or jackals hunt down a kudu is OK - that's nature.

But a pack of hounds killing a fox that kills scores of hens and eats one is not OK.

Although a man with a useless aim shooting a fox and leaving it to die of its wounds or gangrene is OK - the UK government says it is.

And poisoning rats so that their blood vessels burst and they die a long death is OK - governments all over the world say that's OK.

The kudu, fox, rat do not know why they are being hunted, shot at or poisoned. So, let's leave out the bunnyhugging. The animal kingdom did not invent morals. Humans did. And the only moral death is the swiftest, most certain one. And that is not necessarily by shooting.

"Anybody out there got any good fox recipes? I'm a bit sick of just having them in sandwiches." Go to your local tanner and have them turned into foxgloves.

As for "If it wasn't for the fox
We'd have to hunt the working classes", at any meet there will be scores of hunt followers from "the working classes". They will be the men and women who grow the food you townies gobble, who turn out early every day of the year to milk the cows for the milk, butter and cheese you city-dwellers wolf down.

Sorry about the lack of scansion and rhyme. Not every protest has three chords and a chorus.