>>>>>In the UK foxes are becoming urban creatures.
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>>>>Yeah, because in the country there is a pack of horses and hounds chasing them!. :-)
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>>>Totally wrong there. Fox hunting by horse and pack of dogs was banned 1-2 years ago.
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>>Aren't the rich still protesting this by having fox hunts? I really angers me when the rich and powerful are oppressed like that.
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>I think they manage it through some loop-hole about keeping the fox nos down - a bit like you canucks kill seals, the Japanese hunt whales (through scientific study loop-hole), etc.
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>But the days of riding out in pink, with horns blasting, and all that are gone ... or so I understand.

Maybe they go out "to exercise the pack" on a steeple-chase, then "Blow me if a fox didn't just up in front of us and run! Well I couldn't stop the dogs once they got their dander up, don't yer know, what!"