Dear me, Dickie. They do have trouble dealing with the truth don't they? Don't demean yourself with a response to this clown.

Cheer
Nicky

Lordy be. Now that he's drowned his rubber ducky, he's gorn orff and loaded his water pistol!

MyOpinion:
I have sat back and read with interest the continuous and rapidly escalating responses from you and find that your attitude and treatment of Nicky and Dickie leaves a lot to be desired!

The childish insults and pathetic name-calling that you have been employing calls into account your mentality in regard to the ongoing and emotive issue of animal cruelty!

Nicky and Dickie have simply been trying to support their own belief and opinion in this issue, but you have consistently and fanatically cried them down, finally resorting to offensive (to all concerned) comments as to their physical attributes!

You mught have "Your Opinion" but please let others exercise theirs too, without resorting to churlish name-calling and damned sheer rudeness!......this is supposed to be a Forum for opinion NOT a bloody battleground!

Myopinion, you know, as well as I do, that Nicky, Dicky & Cuphandle live in fairyland. Enough said.

Nicky “Horse racing and trotting place unreasonable distress on the animals concerned so cannot be condoned,”

That is mere opinion. I see it unlikely to be considered as such by the vast majority of people (the mainstream).

“fox hunting is simply about allowing an animal to be ripped to bits by a pack of dogs for fun.”

The thrill is in the hunt. Foxes are vermin, better off dead than slaughtering chicken (I see no comment on the right of chooks to be defended from the butchery of foxes).

“But rodeo events such as bull riding and in particular calf roping are indefensible.”

Every bull ride I have seen has tended to leave the rider worse off than the bull.
As for calf roping, that competition evolved out of the normal management of cattle.

Again duck shooting, you do not represent the exclusive view of “contemporary society”.

“What sort of people are you?”

I am the sort of person who believes in the rights of fellow people to exercise the legal freedoms enjoyed by their forefathers and their right to elect a government to make laws in their interest, not in the interest of fanatical fringe groups.

Those fringe groups, who seem motivated by an unduly sentimental and emotionally distorted perception of the comparative rights of dumb animals versus humans, who run around with an idea that they are above the law and illegally pursue their misplaced belief by invading and destroying peoples legally conducted businesses, because those businesses offend them.

I am one of the millions who believe in democratic representation and who will vote for the politician who represents a bulwark against the insanity and undue interference of animal liberationist.

That is the sort of person I am.

A live and let live sort of fellow who does not indulge in deliberate cruelty, who believes the mainstream of people are as compassionate and balanced as I am, neither cruel nor over sentimental but equally accepts the rights of critters are not the same or on a par with humans.

Mmm, there is a lot of emotive rhetoric here, coming from both sides. To respond to the various points:

1) Dickie, you state: "you are guilty of similar. You have asked me for my solutions but offer none on the above issue."

On the other hand, I don't sledge those who practice 1080 baiting or roo culling. I don't tell them to be "ashamed" and I don't launch tirades against them. Thus, I think if you are going to do these harsh things, you need to have a practical alternative, because as I have outlined, it is necessary to protect native species.

As I see it, either you are not serious about the threat these animals pose to native species, because it interferes with your idealised - and yes, very simplistic - morality.

If indeed a barbiturate is a practical option as nicky suggests, then yes, I think that would be better. But I suspect there are reasons why it is not.

I concur with licensing of cats in regional areas. Given they can wreak more environmental havoc than dogs, yes, I believe they should be registered and heavy fines should be meted out when they are allowed to roam at night.

That being said, that won't solve the problems of the ones already out there. Trapping and humanely putting them down is ideal, but very resource intensive in terms of the amount of time it would take to make any kind of significant impact.

Cont'd.