Wildlife

"It [foxhunting] is about as terrifying as a small boy being chased off a farmer's land for scrumping apples" John Jackson, Countryside Alliance Chairman

"It is essential that hounds should have their blood up and learn to be savage with their fox before he is killed." Late Duke of Beaufort

 

"In every hunt there are one or two people, particularly terriermen, who get a sadistic pleasure from tormenting foxes." Paul Woodhouse, Huntsman to the Derwent Foxhounds; News of the World 1982

"Pain and suffering is infliced on animal in the course of sport. Nobody who has seen a beaten fox dragging his stiff limbs into the ditch in which he knows he will die can doubt this proposition." Reginald Paget QC MP (later Lord Paget) who hunted with the Fernie and Pytchley Foxhounds. Taken from In Praise of Hunting, Hollis and Carter 1960