Comments for Dan Callister Images http://blog.dancallister.com Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:33:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by Clive Rees http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20976 Clive Rees Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:33:20 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20976 I will agree that the quality of these images is excellent. Obviously there will be cases where a fox is not bitten first on the back of the neck, but these photos make it clear that this fox WAS killed pretty quickly and pretty effectively despite what your correspondent Paul Day says above. The question of inhumanity has to be considered in the round. What alternative means of control are available? The death of this fox, while graphically portrayed on Dan's photos, was clearly a whole lot quicker and more humane than, say, a fox that is shot and wounded or snared or poisoned or killed in many of the various ways that we humans exercise control over wild animals. I HAVE seen foxes killed by hounds when one hound catches a fox that is running away, and that death appeared to me to be very speedy indeed, exactly in the manner Paul ascribes to us foxhunters, but no-one says that desirable method happens in 100% of cases, just as no-one can shoot to kill 100% of the time. Compared to these alternative methods, and as shown in the photos, the death arising from hunting as depicted shows a remarkably quick and effective means of killing, leaving no chance of wounding and later suffering. I will agree that the quality of these images is excellent.
Obviously there will be cases where a fox is not bitten first on the back of the neck, but these photos make it clear that this fox WAS killed pretty quickly and pretty effectively despite what your correspondent Paul Day says above. The question of inhumanity has to be considered in the round. What alternative means of control are available? The death of this fox, while graphically portrayed on Dan’s photos, was clearly a whole lot quicker and more humane than, say, a fox that is shot and wounded or snared or poisoned or killed in many of the various ways that we humans exercise control over wild animals. I HAVE seen foxes killed by hounds when one hound catches a fox that is running away, and that death appeared to me to be very speedy indeed, exactly in the manner Paul ascribes to us foxhunters, but no-one says that desirable method happens in 100% of cases, just as no-one can shoot to kill 100% of the time.
Compared to these alternative methods, and as shown in the photos, the death arising from hunting as depicted shows a remarkably quick and effective means of killing, leaving no chance of wounding and later suffering.

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by andrea http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20971 andrea Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:42:41 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20971 Excellent images, really captures first hand what happens to the fox after the chase... it is mauled to death over a period of time which is barbaric needless to say. The "sport" can easily come under the same catagory as dog fighting, anybody who wants to take part in this activity is blood thirsty and sadistic, speaking as someone from the country not the city! Excellent images, really captures first hand what happens to the fox after the chase… it is mauled to death over a period of time which is barbaric needless to say. The “sport” can easily come under the same catagory as dog fighting, anybody who wants to take part in this activity is blood thirsty and sadistic, speaking as someone from the country not the city!

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by jm2k http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20970 jm2k Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:27:53 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20970 i have always known fox-hunting, stag, mink, and any type of hunting with hounds is barbaric and cruel. i love horse riding and the thrill of ridin across country but i go to fun ride and cross-country events instead. this is a sick and needless act of deliberate vicious attack against foxes. they are very rarely killed immediately and are usually bitten loads of times by many dogs before being ripped apart ALIVE! this is excrutiatingly painful, its hideous and anyone who supports this is a twisted and ignorant person. the whole country needs to wise up and see this for the truth and accuracy it is, your images can show that perfectly. there is no excuse and there is no justifiable reason why there should be any form of hunting (especially with dogs) in the UK or anywhere else in the world. well done for taking the images, they show the fear, pain and desperation in the poor fox. they are the haunting eyes which i hope everyone sees and remembers. i have always known fox-hunting, stag, mink, and any type of hunting with hounds is barbaric and cruel. i love horse riding and the thrill of ridin across country but i go to fun ride and cross-country events instead.
this is a sick and needless act of deliberate vicious attack against foxes. they are very rarely killed immediately and are usually bitten loads of times by many dogs before being ripped apart ALIVE! this is excrutiatingly painful, its hideous and anyone who supports this is a twisted and ignorant person.
the whole country needs to wise up and see this for the truth and accuracy it is, your images can show that perfectly. there is no excuse and there is no justifiable reason why there should be any form of hunting (especially with dogs) in the UK or anywhere else in the world.

well done for taking the images, they show the fear, pain and desperation in the poor fox. they are the haunting eyes which i hope everyone sees and remembers.

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by claire http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20962 claire Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:02:20 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20962 clearly though this is breaking the law and you should be reporting such things - after all if you had caught a thief breaking into someone's house you wouldn't ignore it would you? clearly though this is breaking the law and you should be reporting such things – after all if you had caught a thief breaking into someone’s house you wouldn’t ignore it would you?

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by Dawn Weaver http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20960 Dawn Weaver Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:27:33 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20960 Your photographs are amazing and very dramatic. I personally hope they can be used to help stop this barbaric sport. I witnessed 3 foxhounds being killed on a dual-carriageway after huntsmen deliberately didn't sound the horn to call their hounds off the fox. The children and old people in those vehicles were severaly traumatised. All in the name of 'sport'. Your photographs are amazing and very dramatic. I personally hope they can be used to help stop this barbaric sport. I witnessed 3 foxhounds being killed on a dual-carriageway after huntsmen deliberately didn’t sound the horn to call their hounds off the fox. The children and old people in those vehicles were severaly traumatised. All in the name of ’sport’.

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by Simon Russell http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20958 Simon Russell Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:24:21 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20958 Hi Dan Can I ask when these photos were taken? Thanks Simon Hi Dan

Can I ask when these photos were taken?

Thanks

Simon

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by adam berry http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20956 adam berry Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:28:24 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20956 Hi my name is adam berry and am in final yr of ma fine art at Sheffield Halam University. I too am studying hunting to hounds, and am searching for strong emotive images to use and translate into semi-abstract paintings on canvas, copyright and credit given would you have any issues with taking one of your shots as a starting point? Please reply if further information req'd, adam. Hi my name is adam berry and am in final yr of ma fine art at Sheffield Halam University. I too am studying hunting to hounds, and am searching for strong emotive images to use and translate into semi-abstract paintings on canvas, copyright and credit given would you have any issues with taking one of your shots as a starting point? Please reply if further information req’d, adam.

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by Paul Day http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20945 Paul Day Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:28:17 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20945 Such excellent photography Dan and I congratulate you on that. If there's one shot that particularly caught my attention, it is the fourth one down. Being, like yourself 'open minded' on this highly emotive issue I noted that this particular photograph totally demolishes the foxhunters claims that the fox is always killed instantly with a 'nip to the back of the neck'. Such excellent photography Dan and I congratulate you on that. If there’s one shot that particularly caught my attention, it is the fourth one down. Being, like yourself ‘open minded’ on this highly emotive issue I noted that this particular photograph totally demolishes the foxhunters claims that the fox is always killed instantly with a ‘nip to the back of the neck’.

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by FOX HUNTING good or bad - Page 3 http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20919 FOX HUNTING good or bad - Page 3 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:28:54 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20919 [...] due to loosing so much blood so a fox would not last days with a bullet in it! If you look to Fox being ripped apart by hunting dogs. and still see Fox Hunting as necessary then I would honestly say there is something wrong with your [...] [...] due to loosing so much blood so a fox would not last days with a bullet in it! If you look to Fox being ripped apart by hunting dogs. and still see Fox Hunting as necessary then I would honestly say there is something wrong with your [...]

]]> Comment on Fox hunting with hounds………………inhumane? by Mr C http://blog.dancallister.com/2010/12/15/fox-hunting-with-hounds-inhumane/comment-page-1/#comment-20284 Mr C Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:19:39 +0000 http://blog.dancallister.com/?p=347#comment-20284 A fox against a dog one on one is fair play. Fifty to one IS downright cruel. A fox against a dog one on one is fair play.
Fifty to one IS downright cruel.

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