Well I wish the Danish hunting community thought like you lot do, but I am afraid they put me off completely.
A man just down the road bought a terrier pup last winter, and every time I see him, he explains gleefully how he intends to train the dog to go down fox holes.
Well last evening he came by and started with great enthusiasm spouting off about how well this training was going, and in the end (I kept very silent and looked very disapprovingly at him) he explained that it was foxes' fault that the local deer population had declined in recent years, and it is the duty of hunting enthusiasts to interfere in this, and eradicate the foxes, of which, he felt, there are far too many.
I responded that the deer population had been exposed to a certain virus, and in any case, the deer population was unnaturally large due to the local estate's hunting interests. Elsewhere, there are nowhere near so many deer when left to their own purposes.............nor pheasants come to think of it, which they rear in flocks and put out on the morning of the hunt.
He didn't care for my viewpoint, he said, to which I replied I couldn't care less, and that the majority of MY countrymen are against killing animals for fun, which is what hunting is.
Rant over.
