John,
You asked for my views on hunting and that's what you got. I wrote down what I thought and no, I didn't read it through before posting. I wonder, though, how closely you read it before replying.
The problem is, we see different worlds through different eyes. I don't know how many foxhunts you've seen, but clearly your experience has been vastly different from mine. For a great many hunters, the point of it is the fun - the fun of seeing the hounds work, of getting closer to the Crusty Old Bitch.
As for how the fox feels; I imagine it feels very much like the rabbit, the hare, the partridge or the mouse feels when it dies. As far as I know, we humans are reckoned to be the only creatures who actually know we're going to die (which is probably why we felt the need to invent god), so it would be wrong to anthropomorphise the fox's experience of death.
That's not to say that cruelty to animals is acceptable. To that end, a quick death from the hounds would probably be 'preferable' from a fox's point of view to a lingering death from poison, from choking in a snare or from gangrene induced by shotgun pellets, and I've seen the remains of foxes with all of those.
However, it's clear that nothing I can tell you about foxhunting will make you reassess your view. I can't quite work out what your view is, but it seems to be that the death involved in hunting is less acceptable than the death involved in bringing you your breakfast milk, your leather shoes or your cheap eggs. If you're a vegan, however, I apologise in advance for such an insulting assumption.