“Be even more ashamed that you sit proudly having your photograghs taken with children sat beside you when your thoughts are to happily kill an animal after terrorising it first ... Teaching children that animal cruelty is ok ? Unbelievable !”

“Those huntsmen and women who engage in this (and all of the other) barbaric bloodpsorts, are nothing more than evil, perverted, warped, bloodthirsty cowards. This hunting practice is the absolute pits. Anyone who participates in a hunt (and gameshooting etc) should be considered a complete pariah. These rotten rural practices are utterly shameful and wicked. It should have been totally outlawed.

These twisted huntsmen and women bleat on about townies not understanding the rustic ways etc Well, if understanding the countryside community's obsession with having innocent wild animals torn to shreds by rabid hounds, deliberately starved beforehand and worked into a frenxy, then no we don't understand it. It is sick and its participants should undergo psychiatric treatment, as well as prosecution.

As for jobs, exactly the same crass argument was used to 'justify' the hideous Atlantic Slave Trade.

Huntsmen and women also trespass private property, causing untold damage to private owners and often allow their hounds to kill cats and dogs that are pets. These perverts have no respect for other peoples' land or animals.

It is often said that the deliberate killing of foxes is just one small step from doing the same to people.

This archaic, vile, sick hunting so-called tradition needs to be stopped once and for all. Any normal-minded person, regardless of background, political affiliation etc will find this practice evil and unacceptable.

The main reason this sick blood-letting continues is via the royals, who openly practice this nauseating barbarism themselves.

Most obnoxious are the working-class lackies, who are as rough, common, uncouth and ill-educated as they come, however, are stupid enough to thick that being a huntsman or woman suddenly propels them into the ranks of the local gentry. What misguided fools they are.

We, rightly, condemn the Norwegians and Japanese for whale hunting, the Canadians for seal cub hunting, and amny other nations for animal cruelty; yet, hypocritically, we tolerate here because its linked to nobs and the monarchy.

Fox hunting has nothing to do with culling and everything to do with thuggish brutes getting turned on by the thrill of the kill. They're weird.”

“I agree with Rogerwatling killing animals should only be done humanely and if absolutely necessary, not as some boxing day entertainment and it certainly is not a sport.”

“How confident can we be that the hunt will stick to the rules, the group I spoke to on the 10th in stock admitted that they were up for the kill. It is time that hunting went the way of bear bating.

I came into contact with the hunt as a small child when they came into our garden, dad had shut the fox in the shed, I was buffeted around by the hounds, not a great experience.”