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  • 12-02-2011 09:18PM
    #1
    lesserspottedchloe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭


    I was just browsing there and came across something scary that made me wonder...how can people hunt/shoot foxes? I mean genuinely I don't understand how people can stare down the barrel of a shotgun and kill such a magnificent animal without a care in the world? :o


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  • #2
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Because its fun, and they won't shoot themselves.


  • #3
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Do you live in the countryside ?


  • #4
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Hippie! I love to murder animals and eat them. Tasty


  • #5
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    says OP as she digs into a chicken burger!!!


  • #6
    desaparecidos
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭desaparecidos


    hondasam wrote: »
    Do you live in the countryside ?

    Does that imply if you live in the country side you'd "get it"?

    I live in the country side and the vast majority of people I know wouldn't hunt / own a gun and I consider people who hunt somewhat lacking something mentally.


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  • #7
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Because you make your living from chickens or other livestock and foxes kill and eat them.

    It's not for the craic. If you ran a restaurant you'd probably have mousetraps.


  • #8
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Kill a human = You evil bastard!
    Kill a fox = Good potshot, Sir!


  • #9
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Naikon wrote: »
    Kill a human = You evil bastard!
    Kill a fox = Good potshot, Sir!

    eat any other animal = yum yum

    Point??


  • #10
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Don't be misled by their innocent looks.. given half a chance most foxes would murder you and everyone you care about


  • #11
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    desaparecidos wrote: »
    Does that imply if you live in the country side you'd "get it"?

    I live in the country side and the vast majority of people I know wouldn't hunt / own a gun and I consider people who hunt somewhat lacking something mentally.

    you want the country to be overrun with foxes. majority of farmers own guns and kill foxes.


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  • #12
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Mr Fox thinks he's so fantastic


  • #13
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    On another matter, are badgers suicidal, I recently came across 6 dead on the roads from Cork to Galway.


  • #14
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    laylah wrote: »
    I was just browsing there and came across something scary that made me wonder...how can people hunt/shoot foxes? I mean genuinely I don't understand how people can stare down the barrel of a shotgun and kill such a magnificent animal without a care in the world? :o

    My brother-in-law is a farmer and often goes shooting game. Once a local dog went rogue and started killing his neighbour's sheep. The neighbour caught the dog and asked my brother-in-law to shoot it.

    I asked him if it was difficult to shoot a dog, meaning it being man's best friend and all.

    He said it was easy, as long as the dog sat still.


  • #15
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    major bill wrote: »
    eat any other animal = yum yum

    Point??

    I ****ing love eating animals. I do not understand though why we are so reluctant towards killing and eating people but not animals. It's pretty arrogant to place the life of a human over an animal. I will still be eating my steak rare mind you.

    *Edit - Human does not taste too good, apparently. *


  • #16
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    laylah wrote: »
    I was just browsing there and came across something scary that made me wonder...how can people hunt/shoot foxes? I mean genuinely I don't understand how people can stare down the barrel of a shotgun and kill such a magnificent animal without a care in the world? :o

    Well it starts off reasonably enough but then the post drifts off into the wishy-washy language of somebody trying to convince me of something. That's what makes arguments like these so utterly ineffective most of the time. Keep the language plain and straight and people might listen more. Would it help if the animal was less magnificent? Does the hunter really not have a care in the world?


  • #17
    JONJO THE MISER
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Don't be misled by their innocent looks.. given half a chance most foxes would murder you and everyone you care about

    Sure didn't they nearly kill 2 twins in London.


  • #18
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Is there still 5000 Mink running around Ireland somewhere?


  • #19
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Kasabian wrote: »
    Is there still 5000 Mink running around Ireland somewhere?

    There's that many in Tuam alone...




    ...I'll get my coat.


  • #20
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    The Fox is manky, not magnificent.

    And that's coming from the Badgermonkey :eek:


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,497 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I live a mile or so from Cork City centre, quite a lot of lads around here are into hunting, foxes, rabbits etc. They don't shoot them though, dogs and shovels :eek: Also ferrets they use.


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  • #22
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,532 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Naikon wrote: »
    It's pretty arrogant to place the life of a human over an animal.

    So if you had to choose the life of your child over the life of your dog, you'd choose the dog?


  • #23
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Lumen wrote: »
    So if you had to choose the life of your child over the life of your dog, you'd choose the dog?

    No. That is my point. We choose to discriminate based on selfish reasoning. I am sure the dog would want the other option.


  • #24
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    There's that many in Tuam alone...




    ...I'll get my coat.

    And so it begins. :P:pac:


  • #25
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Kasabian wrote: »
    On another matter, are badgers suicidal, I recently came across 6 dead on the roads from Cork to Galway.
    Suicides on the increase since the GFC, touchy subject...


  • #26
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    A fox killed most of my birds. Only took one away but killed loads of them just for the sport. A few were left alive but torn open.
    That's why they get shot.


  • #27
    deaddonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭deaddonkey


    how?

    with about 9lbs of finger pressure


  • #28
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Dave! wrote: »
    Suicides on the increase since the GFC, touchy subject...

    GFC ??


  • #29
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    The Fox is magnificent in her sox.

    FYP

    ;)


  • #30
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Kasabian wrote: »
    Is there still 5000 Mink running around Ireland somewhere?
    Think that happened somewhere in the UK, some retarded animal rights people thought it would be a good idea to release them into the wild from a fur farm. Spastics didn't give much thought to what releasing non native species would do to to the local wildlife, they were too busy fapping away to their own Born Free wet dream.


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  • #31
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Kasabian wrote: »
    GFC ??
    Global financial crisis

    Twas a joke


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