Hounds

One particular section of British society have been annoying the bejabers out of me this week, rather a privileged section at that. The Hunt. Bunch of hooray Henrys dressed in red, which they call hunting pink, riding to hounds so that they can chase a fox around the countryside generally frightening all the other wildlife and finally catching it and tearing its living body to pieces. Except that it's now illegal. Except that they don't accept that and because they are moneyed tossers they carry on and the police don't have the personell to address this issue.

Now, compare this with when the law about not using mobile phones in cars came in. Everyone said at the time,
'Well, how are they going to police that one then? What are they going to do, have high speed police chases on the motorways to stop people using their phones?'
So what happened? Well by and large, people just stopped using their mobile phones whilst driving. I'm serious. The reason I bitch about it so much here is that it's so noticeable in comparison with Britain. Of course you will get the odd person taking a chance, and guess what, I would put money on those chance-takers being the same hooray Henrys who ride to hounds.

One problem is the number of loopholes the new law left them. They are in fact still allowed to gather as a hunt, chase the critter and then shoot it. But why do they think it's a good method of pest control anyway?
If you speak to a hunt supporter, trying not to be patronising because of their low intelligence, they always give you the old,
'Wawa, foxes pests, foxes steal farmer's chickens and children's guinea pigs and hamsters, waffle, waffle.'
Mmmm...caged rodents. I've never really understood why, unless you are an approved medical research facility, you need to keep small animals in cages. In all probability they, for some reason left outside and with the locks on their cages no match for the wily fox, would stick their little snouts out and squeak,
'Please Mr. Renard, put an end to this misery for me, I welcome your deadly embrace,' naturally they would talk in cliches because no-one has ever taught them otherwise.

As for chickens, well surely to goodness we have other ways of keeping foxes out of poultry houses than allowing a bunch of wealthy wankers to chase them around the countryside in a blood lust? I mean shoot them if necessary, but don't make them suffer first.

They also say, 'But our hounds would have to be put down,' to which I say, 'Bollocks!' have they been rendered so bloodthirsty they could no longer be pets like other dogs ? Do beagles have the same natures as Pitbull terriers? Well if they do then put them down, dogs in any case are put down humanely.

Now in the meantime, elsewhere in Tony's Britain, although not in honesty too far away, the animal rights activists are making the lives of builders constructing a new research facility in Oxfordshire, a living hell.

Decades of public debate have given a high level of accountability to the research establishment. I personally want drugs which will benefit myself and fellow Brits, Canadians and planet-dwellers in general to be well tested. I don't want them tested on other humans in Sachsenhausen-like hellholes. I don't want them tested on students trying to maintain body and soul whilst studying for a higher level of education that will benefit the whole of society. Ergo, I want them tested on animals. I want the conditions of those animals to be as comfortable as possible, I want them to be tested not tortured. I even want any toiletries that can come into contact with my grandchildren's precious bodies to be tested too.

How do people who purport to be animal lovers, like those imbeciles in the United States who pretend to be pro-life and yet terrorise doctors and woman at the worst times in their lives, turn into terrorists? That IS what they are those people.

Ideally, I would like all Hunt members rounded up and sent out on active duty, but then we don't really want idiots compromising the safety and work of the excellent and brave armed forces.
So here's a thought, why can't the blood-thirsty terrorists known as 'animal rights activists' vent their spleen on the Hunt? Yes, there are Hunt saboteurs, but they don't seem to be as effective as they need to be. Let the animal rights terrorists deal with the rights of foxes and hares and anything else the Hunt feels like shredding, because until this practice actually stops in Britain, we cannot hold our heads up and call ourselves a civilised nation.