killing vixens with cubs

[Macky 227]

just been chatting with a few lads ,I go hunting all year round and have heard over the years that people that go out killing vixens who have just had cubs ,are usually the same people that whinge and whine about vixens being killed in March and April leaving cubs behind.These people do not seem to have the same morals when they go out and kill easy cubs in august and september ,why do they not have enough scruples to stand by what they so call believe in and only go out in november ,december when they are fully grown .This goes for all walks of hunting pre ban with lurchers ,shooters,snarers,and cage trappers ,Practice What You Preach .

[chartpolski 23,133]

I don't realy understand your post, mate ? Aren't foxes fair game all year round ?

Cheers.

[lurcher330 2,297]

foxes are fair game all year round ,but i personally will to regular rounds of my permission from september until the end of febuary but if i get a call from a farmer having trouble inbetween i will do it and it sometimes involves taking cubs,which is never nice,but if you do pest control it has to be done.

during the season you work to keep the numbers down but off season you deals with problem animals,

[HuntandFish 31]

the diffference between killing cubs in august or pregnant vixens in March is that you kill them. If you kill a vixen in april to july then the cubs will starve to death slowly, thats the only wrong time to kill a vixen in my opinion. vermin need to be controlled. I perosnally hunt with a more sporting attitude and dont hunt a fox til mid september and usually quit in february, but if a farmer asked me to do a job then I would.

[TAXI DRIVER 549]

Sport and pest control are two different things.Someone who only kills foxes for sport will never see things from a pest controllers point of view.If the sporting hunter had thousands of pounds worth of pheasants to protect,sport wouldn`t enter the equation.

[jo54 255]

i wouldnt do it like having them for the winter lol

[slip hound 32]

i think it is only killing your own sport think about it what sport is in killing a vixen full of cubs or green cubs that come right in to you.i think their should be break in every ones season because come september their will be nothing around infact if i caught a vixen on the lamp and could save it i would.the dog game is slowly dying either trhough land being devloped on or animals not haven the chance to reproduce............killing your own sport

[chartpolski 23,133]

I suppose it depends on your outlook; ifyou are just in it for sport,ok, but it's a different situation if you are a pest controller or a keeper. They will look on a den full of dead cubs as something they won't have to spend time

killing at a later date.

 

Cheers.

[lurche 48]

how many sections is this thread posted in ?

[brockdog 285]

some people have to go out on call outs etc which is fair play and has to be done .Some peoples seasons start now and that to me is just slaughter.digging cubs ,lamping cubs etc .no sport in that .just killing next years stock.we go all winter foxing ,but only out this time of year if we have to.

[Penda 3,341]

Im not the type of person to go out looking for the ginger fellas in the spring and summer i will addmit i have done in the past im not knocking any body who does,i know lads who have to do pestcontrol for the keepers and farmers all year round and to me thats fair enough you have to do these things if you want to keep your permission i go looking for fox from september til february march time ive saw some of them cubs put young dogs too shame if there in experienced so people who think young foxes are all easy i dont agree there, all of this is took from a preban prespective of course