IN reply to Barrie Wade and Debora Blount.

The fox may be classed as a pest but the bigger pest is the rider on the horse that is hunting it down with a pack of hounds with the intention or ripping it to pieces. This is not a recreation, nor is it necessary to get dressed up in fancy regalia after quaffing copious amounts of alcohol. The toasting to the barbaric death of one of nature's creatures just to satisfy one's ego is purely blood lust and moronic.

These people should get a real life and spend more time saving the planet than destroying it. Nature is warning us in its own way and we should take heed. The most dangerous animal on earth is man. We have destroyed hundreds of species into extinction and still carry on to do so.

I can understand the hunting of animals for food which is necessary in some cultures as in nature. But as to the tally-ho brigade, it becomes grossly obscene.

Arnold Harrison

Manchester Road West

Little Hulton