THE letter in last week’s Western Telegraph Wednesday, June 24 by Rosemary Daniels raised some interesting points. She accused the fox of being vermin and wished the anti-hunting people would get their facts right.

Fact 1. In the UK the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) determines which animals are vermin, and foxes are not on that list.

Fact 2. If Rosemary Daniels has hunted for 50 years, not only for sport, then for what?. Is this what the hunting world now calls ‘Wildlife management’?. When she was farming and wanted to control foxes surely she must have been most concerned that some hunts constructed artificial earths to encourage fox breeding and even more dreadful that recently 16 fox cubs were being kept in a barn about 200m from a hunt kennels.

What for I wonder?

Fact 3. After 50 years of hunting, surely it’s a fact that she is aware of the barbaric cruelty that took place in the blood ‘sport’ hunting not only of foxes but stags, deer and hares.

Fact 4. Yes, It is right that we wish that the Hunting Act 2004 remains and wildlife receives some protection.

MICHAEL SHARRATT

West Wales Animal Aid

Cwm Coile

Whitland