As I live in the countryside & often hear the foxes barking just behind my house, I would like to add that all those who insist that they kill the fox because they do so much damage to chickens, lambs etc. it is a load of rubbish. I recently asked my neighbour, who keeps a small herd of sheep if they had ever had any lambs taken, & he told me that he has never had a single lamb go to the fox. He insinuated that it is bad management & lazy farming if tiny lambs are ever left in a situation where they may fall prey to foxes. As for chickens, although I have never kept them, many of my neighbours do or have done in the past, & all of them said that if they are put into secure runs at night, then a fox has no way of taking them. Again they put it down to laziness if anyone has them taken. In fact one ex-neighbour who didn't have the heart to kill her old chickens would leave them out at night for the fox to take & they never took any others.

To anyone who has never seen the way they cut off the brush & someone parades around with it, it is sickening & barbaric, although those 'hunters' would probably say that they do nothing of the sort.

If the hunt ever comes round I will again be out there with licorice to scatter around, which is a better deterent than explosive wire, which would hurt the horses. The licorice sends the hounds barmy with the smell & completely puts them off the trail. If you want to sabotage a hunt, this is a much better way, or nip to the butchers & lay a trail of smelly meat, the higher the better!!

I also have no problem with culls if the normal predatory equilibrium has broken down, which is often due to man's intervention.
These morons that hunt for blood lust will always find some kind of justification for their 'Sport'.