Sunday 28th September, 2015

With the reinstatement of David Cameron and the Conservative Party we have been promised an open vote for an amendment of the hunting act. Of course there are hundreds of points for and against the act and most have been nigh on exhausted, however I agree with the common opinion that prejudice is the main fuel for the ban. Despite huntsman in red coats with a pack of healthy hounds tearing through the county side being to me a beautiful and heart warming site, I can see how to some people it is seen as both pompous and unempathetic. Yet hunting with dogs is not always raucous, loud and upper class. Should your average anti accompany a lone country man with his one dog on a walk. Watch as the two look together and spot a hare, give the hare fair law and watch the most natural pursuit of game there is to be found. If the anti was to see the mans joy as the dog and hare twist and spin across a field only for the hare to make safe it's escape he would, i believe, be left with a different opinion of hunting with dogs.