Just a word or two please

[Guest Rabbit]

Why should I lobby for an angling ban?

 

I think you are being naive in the extreme. Anglers need fish, fish do not require anglers!

 

Horse racing, dog racing, sled pulling and soooo many other sports all use animals in some way, and although we do our best to be kind to the animals we use, lets not kid ourselves here, these animals would be better off without our intervention. sssssooooo

 

I'll say it again, I love my angling but I'm quite sure the fish doesn't share my passion!

 

Phil you are so off the mark Dogs actually love to work otherwise they would just not do it. Huskies live to pull a sled Greyhound want to race Police dogs love to work I should know, the enthusiasm they have when it comes to having a free bite, or scaling a 8 foot hurdle is awesome.

I have a conscience about fishing but I have to indulge in something anti social, especially when people call me naive in the extreme and add

Perhaps you will consider your rather naive statement about working dogs and concede the point to someone who actually knows about such things

 

Nicely put Phil

Hardly, old chap, read my reply and learn

[Guest Rabbit]

i'm sure labour wasent voted in solely on their hunting stance ,if so then theres a lot of rather stupid voters out there plus ofcourse labour waset voted in by the majority that % voted elsewhere!

 

its not pain its the stress factor and the pleasure in catching them as their experiencing it ! which you know full well i was referring to!

the spanish bit was because they have a different outlook on suffering than us

 

The proposed ban on hunting played a big part in the re-election of Labour ban. anyone that stands at the next election for reintroducing hunting, hanging or anything else that has been confined to history will probably meet the same fate..confined to history.

[Sportsman]

Phil you are so off the mark Dogs actually love to work otherwise they would just not do it. Huskies live to pull a sled Greyhound want to race Police dogs love to work I should know, the enthusiasm they have when it comes to having a free bite, or scaling a 8 foot hurdle is awesome.

I have a conscience about fishing but I have to indulge in something anti social, especially when people call me naive in the extreme and add

Perhaps you will consider your rather naive statement about working dogs and concede the point to someone who actually knows about such things

Hardly, old chap, read my reply and learn

 

 

Like I said, nicely put Phil

[ColinW]

It is a strange world we live in. One in which most of us eat meat on a daily basis but in which Jamie Oliver wasn't allowed to show a lamb getting its throat cut in order to be butchered

[*Ant*]

Can anyone be 100% certain that fish don't relish the fight, I bet it's a good posibility that some predators do?

 

Or if you are implying that fish are hurt or distressed then you must be admitting they have feelings, and thus feel pain?

 

And would course fish be better off without anglers? Possibly but possibly not, wouldn't the waterways be little more than unihabital slush pits were it not for anglers, again I dunno?

[Sportsman]

A very good point. and can anyone be 100% sure that foxes don't relish being chased by hounds or that hares don't enjoy being coursed.

 

I agree entirely that anglers do more for monitoring and maintaining water quality and habitat than any other section of the community - in exactly the same way that hunters and shooters pay farmers to create biodiversity by maintaining 10metre wild headlands, planting woods and hedges, digging ponds and planting cover crops that provide protection and food, not just for gamebirds but for all of the rest of the wildlife in the countryside.

Both anglers and hunters do it because of vested interests, it makes their sport better.

Could it be that angling has something in common with other fieldsports

[*Ant*]

Foxes possibly do relish the chase, but i'd hazard a guess that they don't relish being torn to pieces by a pack of dogs?

[Cranfield]

I bet Den's glad he started this thread. :lol:

[*Ant*]

[chesters1]

The proposed ban on hunting played a big part in the re-election of Labour ban. anyone that stands at the next election for reintroducing hunting, hanging or anything else that has been confined to history will probably meet the same fate..confined to history.

no problem to repeal a law that doesent work ,hunting goes on twice a week still