History of Fox Hunting

            In England, hunting became popular before the Romans arrived to the country. Over the time, different animals like the elk, brown beer and the English wolf been hunted into extinction. After a lot of species had been wiped out, the hunters started to use some wildlife animals like quarry and in the 20 century, fox hunting became very popular like one of the four major blood sports.

           

     The beginning of fox hunting was in England, in 1534. In this country, the farmers began to hunt foxes with their dogs as pest control. But later, in 1700 the people started considering the fox hunting for pleasure like the favorite sport among the nouveaux riches.  Hunting was considering as a noble, healthy activity that was only practiced in country areas. This “sport” was use to show wealth as the celebration of a social hierarchy. Because of that, the fox hunting became a sport of an elite of aristocrats, nobles and the bourgeoisie.

           

        Now days, a representative group of people still practicing this sport.  According to the British government, there exist more than 1.3 million hunters and fans that only follow the hunt by foot or car. However, there is also a group that is against of fox hunting, they think that fox hunting is cruel an inhumane, because of that, in February 2005, the Hunting Act 2004 outlawed fox hunting with dogs by Act Parliament.

            

       Nevertheless, the decision of banning fox hunting cause grave uproar among the hunting communities all over the Britain and because of the demand of this people, the fox hunting became legal again. 

Bibliography

Gast, Nicole. The fox hunting ban in Britian . Germany : Grin , n.d.