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(From The Journal)
Byline: NORMAN F BATEMAN
THANK you for printing last Saturday Terry Cavner's beautiful picture of a fox doing that which foxes do best: controlling rabbit numbers (The Journal, October 25).
It was a timely reminder, that if it had remained legal, November 1 was the opening meet day of the hunting season.
But our fox had the dignity taken from him, of the chance of outwitting, out-running and escaping from his natural predators, the English foxhounds. He has now become just vermin to be shot, poisoned, trapped or dug out of his earth to be bludgeoned or chopped to death with a spade.
No longer does the true countryman have the option to "leave a few foxes for the hunt".
Would it not have been better if the Labour Party had tried harder to support its paymasters, the trades ...