"Hunting songs and coursing songs go back pretty far into folk song history." As does bar baiting and dog fighting - and hanging, drawing and quartering Nothing to do with being a traditionalist - maybe "humanitarian" is the word you're looking for ? I related that flaw in my character when I was taking to a coursing at Waterloo when I worked on the Liverpool docks I witnessed a crowd cheering on two dogs as they tore a living, screaming, writhing hare into two pieces Put me off 'sport' for life Jim
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