Money well spent (From York Press)

Foxes are vermin and a menace, killing livestock and also being pretty unique as animals in that they kill when not hungry just for the killing.

The RSPCA spent over £300k on concerns about the welfare of two foxes. I would rather have seen that money spent on keeping alive the 3,400 healthy dogs they put down last year. Yes, 3,400 dogs alive or 2 foxes, that's where I'd disagree with the letter writer. Millions of children die in the thrid world due to diseases they could be vacnated against for pence, the money could have saved hundreds of thousands of their lives.

One thing this letter and the Press coverage of the Boxing Day hunts have done though is allow comments. It's an interesting way to explain to someone not from York how unpopular the Labour cabinet is just point out to them 'well, you know how high passions are on hunting and tempers fray, well the Press will allow comments on it, but when it comes to the Labour cabinet passions go way beyond that level so they dare not'.

I once visited Regents Park Zoo, and saw a cage with a sign reading "The most dangerous animal on the planet" It was of course one for human visitors to enter, and be photographed from outside........

Hows about spending over £300k on putting down the filthy stinking dog owners who allow their flea ridden mutts to pollute our streets. Now that would be money well spent!

After reading about the court case
RSPCA v Gill I will never throw a tanner in the tin again.

Micklegate wrote:
Foxes are vermin and a menace, killing livestock and also being pretty unique as animals in that they kill when not hungry just for the killing. The RSPCA spent over £300k on concerns about the welfare of two foxes. I would rather have seen that money spent on keeping alive the 3,400 healthy dogs they put down last year. Yes, 3,400 dogs alive or 2 foxes, that's where I'd disagree with the letter writer. Millions of children die in the thrid world due to diseases they could be vacnated against for pence, the money could have saved hundreds of thousands of their lives. One thing this letter and the Press coverage of the Boxing Day hunts have done though is allow comments. It's an interesting way to explain to someone not from York how unpopular the Labour cabinet is just point out to them 'well, you know how high passions are on hunting and tempers fray, well the Press will allow comments on it, but when it comes to the Labour cabinet passions go way beyond that level so they dare not'.

There's enough money in this world to save the two foxes, save the 3,400 healthy dogs you mention and to vacinate all the children of the third world.

Funnily enough a lot of this money is in the hands of the type of people that support Fox Hunting and many of them couldn't give a t@ss for anyone but themselves.

Yorkieand wrote:

Micklegate wrote:
Foxes are vermin and a menace, killing livestock and also being pretty unique as animals in that they kill when not hungry just for the killing. The RSPCA spent over £300k on concerns about the welfare of two foxes. I would rather have seen that money spent on keeping alive the 3,400 healthy dogs they put down last year. Yes, 3,400 dogs alive or 2 foxes, that's where I'd disagree with the letter writer. Millions of children die in the thrid world due to diseases they could be vacnated against for pence, the money could have saved hundreds of thousands of their lives. One thing this letter and the Press coverage of the Boxing Day hunts have done though is allow comments. It's an interesting way to explain to someone not from York how unpopular the Labour cabinet is just point out to them 'well, you know how high passions are on hunting and tempers fray, well the Press will allow comments on it, but when it comes to the Labour cabinet passions go way beyond that level so they dare not'.

There's enough money in this world to save the two foxes, save the 3,400 healthy dogs you mention and to vacinate all the children of the third world.

Funnily enough a lot of this money is in the hands of the type of people that support Fox Hunting and many of them couldn't give a t@ss for anyone but themselves.

The RSPCA catch urban foxs and treat them then release them onto local farmland .... These fox's have no knowledge of fending for themselves in a rural setting... This is a very cruel act.
Fox's are vermin.