The Dreadful Saga
of Copper
the Fox
Ah, yes, good old Copper.
(Hey, lets
give him a name, that will make it much more emotive,
when we try to sway the public)
This is the single, isolated incident, that, according to the anti-hunters, can now be applied without exception to every single fox that is ever hunted by hounds. Proving, conclusively, without any room for question that hunting is cruel.
Basically, this was the incident where a rather enterprising group of hunt saboteurs managed to intervene and rescue a fox, right at the point where the hounds were about to kill it.
When the fox was subsequently examined by a veterinary surgeon. It was found to be suffering from such a level of shock that the Vet thought that it would probably have died without medical attention.
Pretty conclusive stuff, you might think.
But you’d be wrong.
Lets look at the whole story.
The hunted fox, running for his life from the hounds, has the misfortune to find his way blocked by the Hunt Saboteurs (yup, that was really helpful of them – glad to see that they know just exactly what they are doing).
With its escape route blocked, the fox has no option other than to dive down a small rabbit hole, which unfortunately was too shallow to cover his entire body.
The hounds and Sabs arrive at the hole at around the same time, and the rear end of the fox is bitten as the hounds try to pull him out of the hole to kill him. The Sabs intervene and beat the hounds back, and sat on top of the hole.
A loud argument then ensues between the hunters and the Sabs, during the course of which, a kindly policeman rams his helmet over the mouth of the hole to keep the fox from further harm.
After an hour
with its front end rammed into the end of a earth burrow and its
wounded back end stuffed into a policeman’s helmet, with
people shouting and screaming right on the top of it, this wild
animal is then bundled up in a coat, before being put into
a cage, loaded in a car and driven it to a vet’s surgery.
When it got there it was suffering from huge shock and stress.
Is this surprising? Hardly!
Is it typical of what happens to
a fox out hunting? Not
even remotely!