Last updated at 07:54, Friday, 30 October 2009

According to Ian Addison, the Hunting Act is unjustified, unjust and harmful (The Cumberland News, October 2).

This is an incorrect but typical response from those who support the cruelty of hunting with dogs. It doesn’t matter whether people are academics, knights of the realm, lords, bishops or princes, if they can see nothing wrong in setting a pack of dogs on to a terrified wild animal, they are lacking in both compassion and decency.

In a civilised society, there is no room for those who support such extremes, no matter how high a position they appear to be held in.

The amount of pressure put on MPs in the years prior to the ban by ordinary people concerned with the obscenity of hunting, was the reason the Hunting Act came into existence, whatever hunt apologists claim.

Our wild animals need to be protected, so the law needs to be strengthened to make absolutely certain the Act and the wishes of the majority are upheld.

ELAINE MILBOURN
Torpenhow

First published at 05:20, Friday, 30 October 2009
Published by http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk