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"Training" hounds to kill foxes using cubs as bait.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36598935?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter Fox cubs filmed 'being put into hounds' kennels' Training dogs to kill for a barbaric and cruel sport where people in fancy dress, quaff copious amounts of Port from a pewter "stirrup cup", then gallop off hysterically whooping and yelling around our country, pretending they are doing something for "conservation and pest control". In reality, all they are seeking is the spectacle of watching the hounds rip a fox to pieces as the animals blood stains the earth and enjoying the ritual of smearing more fox blood over the face and clothing of any "new members" to the hunt fraternity. Those responsible for putting fox cubs into the kennels should be prosecuted. They are as despicable as those who partake in this vile and disgusting "sport".

"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/14/foxhunting-david-cameron_n_4096215.html?ref=topbar David Cameron 'Sympathetic' To Calls For Fox Hunting Ban To Be Loosened     Not content with killing badgers in the name of controlling disease, these red coated, Pimms cup drinking dinosaurs want to turn the clock back to the "good old days" when, after galloping round the countryside behind a pack of baying hounds in pursuit of  a fox and watching the animal ripped to pieces by the hounds (amongst great laughter, happiness and celebration from the "hunters"), the master or huntsman will smear the blood of the fox onto the cheeks or forehead of a newly initiated hunt follower, often a young child, and all in the name of "sport". Some presumably will even wish to resurrect the practice of cutting off the tail ('brush'), the feet ('pads') and the head ('mask') as trophies, with the carcass then being throw...