If your neighbours doesn't bother to make his chicken coop secure against foxes, which isn't particularly hard, he's asking for trouble. Rough on the chickens of course , though not as rough as battery farming methods are.

And as has been pointed out frequently, foxhunting has never been a significant method of reducing fox numbers - in fact the reverse is the case, and the foxhunting fraternity would have done much better to point this out, and to argue that the major effect of foxhunting on overall fox populations was to preserve them.

I believe that a move to draghunts would in fact be likely to increase the number of people involved in hunting, by removing the aspect of the "sport" which puts off a great many people who otherwise might wish to take part. Perhaps that is why there has been resistance to the idea among the hunting fraternity, since perhaps the kind of people wh would be attracted would be the wrong type of people. It might even include the sort of people who have been active hunt saboteurs.