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In article <4g9j37$oba$1@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au>, bmorey@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (Bernard Morey) writes:
|> Ian@Noodle.demon.co.uk writes:
|> 
|> >I think fox hunting should be banned as it is a very cruel sport.  There 
|> >are hardly any foxs left anyway but still this carrys on happening.  Who 
|> >do they think they are dressing up in smart RED suites and there poncy 
|> >black helmets. Please reply if you think the same way?
|> 
|> You're a bit off the mark posting this to an aus group -- there's very 
|> little traditional fox hunting carried on here.
|> 
|> Far from being "hardly any foxs (sic) left", they are a bloody nuisance and 
|> in no danger of being wiped out.  They _should_ be wiped out -- they are
|> feral nuisance and a danger to native animals.
|> 

True, but it has been pointed out by the people doing research into the rabbit
problem that if you wipe out the rabbits, the fox population turns to eating
the native animals more.  If you wipe out the foxes, the rabbit population
explodes even more than it already is.

Tosca
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