Comments on iblood sports in Australia

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Hi ,

R. writes >> haven't been riding to hounds much lately. However, I

think bunny should

remember that foxes are indigenous to Britain and, as such, are part of the

natural environment and doing no harm. In Oz they are just another

introduced pest killing our own wildlife. All animals, except humans, seem

to breed least when there is little food around - and there is little food

for foxes after they have killed out the small natives.

++European settlers are also introduced species and they are doing more

harm to the environment and killing more native species than any fox

or competitor wild introduced animal. Yet the some Australian Government

officials want to increase the human population in Australia

to astronomical proportions in

the name of economic growth, profit and such. I don't see the foxes, rabbits

and wild pigs jumping on tractors and clearing hectares of rainforest land

in Queensland.

Nor do I see them doing as much damage to the environment and

Australian animals as the farming of beef and sheep etc and introduced

crops such as cotton.

Try looking at the big picture before you target any other species

introduced

by European settlers into Australia. I know of some Queenslanders who would

like to kill all the fruit bats because they fear the Lyssa virus carried by

bats there

will kill humans and I know of others

who hate kangaroos and still more who see kangaroos as meat rather than

animals.

Targeting one animal species over another is " specieism " akin to racism.

Where there are problem areas that have to be dealt with, humane animal

welfare

concerns should be at the top of the list, not at the bottom.

>>Does bunny also approve of feral cats? Wild pigs? Carp? New Zealanders

do

have to try and control possums.

++ " Feral cats " are pet cats dumped in the bush or neglected by humans.

Farmers even let cats go in the bush to kill rabbits and mice etc at some

periods

during Australian history. Therefore for this human stupidity and neglect,

these species should suffer torturous deaths?

Perhaps R., you are a friend of Monty the TV weather man who supposedly

tried to kill a Carp

by repeatedly stamping on it (but it refused to die) on air while he was

doing a segment

on the countryside here. Did you here the anecdote about the crocodile

hunter who

put the shot but still live and kicking wild pig in a net and hung it above

the waters edge

to catch the crocodile? I suppose this cruelty does not worry you but it

does worry me.

Animals have the same ability to suffer as you or I (they have a central

nervous system and feel fear and pain).

>>Any removal should be as humane as possible, and " sport " is a very

unattractive (weird people) option, but removal of foxes from Oz would be

wonderful.

++I would rather see humans removed and that would solve a lot of problems

wouldn't it? Perhaps cattle, sheep and other animals raised for meat could

be phased

out as well. As for " weird people " , you are making excuses for sadists.

Teenagers

who wish to go " bunny bashing " for fun for the weekend or people with bows

and arrows

who want live targets. Blood sports are cruel and obnoxious. Don't try and

legitimise

cruelty in the name of specieism or conservation.

>>Actually " sport " has been the most successful way so far in

getting rid of wild pigs, so it may be possible to use these weird people

for the public good.

++Pity the wild pigs who didn't ask to be here in the first place. Did you

see the TV segment

about the woman who fought her local council to keep her pet pigs and won?

She had them

sleeping on beds in the house and she implied they were as intelligent as

dogs.

Aren't humans " weird " wanting to kill and maim some animal species on the

one

hand and make " pets " and " exhibits " of them in zoos and circuses on the

other.

It seems the human race has a particular trait of being nasty that exceeds

any

implied " nasty traits " in other species.

Kind regards,

Marguerite