How many of you anti-foxhunting people keep cats ? I suppose that you all take great care to make sure that they never kill mice, rats or any other forms of vermin. Do you ever kill flies, wasps or other insects or garden pests like slugs etc. I've seen a cat playing with a mouse - I'm sure it's a much crueller death for the poor rodent than that meted out to a fox by a pack of hounds. Perhaps you consider that the extent of cruelty is determined by the genus and size of the victim.

I don't particularly support foxhunting, but I don't feel any great antagonism to people who choose to do it. I end up being more on their side because I can't stand the dogmatic approach that many people have against a sport that kills a tiny of the fraction of foxes that these very "antis" will kill with their own cars, when there are many much more important animal cruelty issues to be faced.

Before we get a whole threadrift about my use of the word "sport", I would like to point out that the word originally meant hunting. The fact that we have hijacked the word to refer to activities that are really "games" does not invalidate it's more traditional meaning. Incidently if anyone wants to start a movement to ban a game that causes a much greater number of mammalian deaths and injuries - Ill join an anti-football movement any time.