I've seen pictures of a fox hunt and I think it's disgusting the way the hounds rip the fox apart while it's alive after chasing it for miles and at the sheer amusement of the hunters sitting on their "high horse" so to speak, pointing and smiling while the fox suffers. How much of a pest can a fox actually be when they keep the real pests (rodents) under control. Wolves in America have always been considered a "pest" and after decades of being hunted almost to extinction, now deer are overpopulating and we have to justify hunting them for sport to "keep the population down". Maybe if man would leave animals to their natural selection then we wouldn't have so many "pests". It would also help if man would stop developing on so much of their habitats, then the animals wouldn't seem like such pests for wandering on their own territory which is now overpopulated with a new pest...humans. It shouldn't matter that fox hunting is an old tradition or sport, that doesn't make it right or ok. Bull figthing, dog fighting, cockfighting, horse tripping, are all old "traditions" or "sports", but that doesn't make them acceptable entertainment or practices in our modern civilized society. It's one thing to hunt for food, but non of the above mentioned sports produce food, just a bloody mess in which the animals are brutally tortured and left to die in front of an audiance of cheering barbarians.

I know an old tradition/sport we should bring back. Throwing rapists and murders in an arena with a lion, tiger, or bear...oh my. We have so many of these "pests" running our streets and sitting in our jails, what better way to keep their population under control, and it's all natural.