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OUR PATHETIC LEGAL SYSTEM IS A FUCKING JOKE.... NEVER MIND A SLAPPED WRIST, HANG THESE BASTARDS!

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All well and good to introduce bans and laws to appease voters but unless the Police are directed by the Home Office (or similar) to police the laws diligently, they will be ignored as per the Hunting of Wild Mammals. Apparently, Tony Blair not only constructed the loopholes but in addition instructed the Home Office not to seriously police it! I will no longer listen to any potential MP from ANY party promising animal welfare unless they can at the same time demonstrate how it will be rigorously enforced! I would then vote for them, but watch the follow up actions with an eagle eye!

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Sadly, I'm not surprised. Just because something is illegal it doesn't stop people from doing it, especially when we are talking about evil psychos.

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This is heartbreaking and takes me back to the 70's when i would go along hedge rows ripping them out. I found rabbits and even a cat that i could not save and had to be put to sleep. Its disgusting to think 50 years on this evil cruelty is going on. A evil and cruel long death. I would like the scum responsible to go in a trap and suffer .

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I did that too! I took walks deliberately looking for snares, took some pliers with me, cut the snares into pieces and left them to be found by the perpetrator!

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Well done Rosemary. I cant believe its legal in this day and age. Barbaric torture.

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We live in a sick society where animals are either bred & sold for ridiculous amounts of money or there bred illegally in container units for dog fights. Look at vinnie jones, he loves killing foxes, badgers etc then they give him a show about living in the countryside.

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I did not know he was involved in that, that makes him a "SADISTIC" "SAVAGE" piece of "CRAP.

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I read an article a few months back about him Copresenting the program on the countryside & the people that worked, lived there

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Yes he did. I left a notice on Discovery. He us a thug. Uneducated, vile oik. So hope he falls ...

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I am also an uneducated 84 year old, but have "UNIVERSITY" of life it takes all class of "SUB HUMAN" filth whatever education they have, all "BLOODSPORT" lovers are "SICK" in the head, all of them, there brains are up there "ARSE", "HATE THEM"

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After seeing Jones in a photograph smiling at the hoard of dead foxes, they'd bagged, shot. I was further disgusted to read he would be Copresentinga a series about the countryside. His love of the countrysideis a shotgun, snares, cock fighting, badger baiting a shovel & a terrier. He beat up his neighbour because he didn't like the way he looked at him, broke into the house & beat the man up in his bed.

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.... and never arrested???! Such a foul man! Complaints to BBC (assuming it is the BBC), I am a country woman, but would never watch 'countryside' programmes unless Chris P was involved!

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Discovery channel has him on some sort of rubbish. A true gent!!!!!

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Correct, he was never charged & he's not a born & bred country man, he's a council estate yob

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I don't watch countryfile or anything to do with Chris P at all as Chris P isn't a true animal lover either. He hates cats and freely admitted that he would want to shoot them all if he could!! Excuse my language here but "animal lover my arse"! If you don't believe me, there is a link here:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/02/rspb-and-the-fear-of-the-feline-whip

He has also admitted this on television too!!

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Jones the thug. Violent and cruel. Hoping for The worst for you...

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Such sad pictures, the pain and stress these poor animals endured is horrific, we live in such an evil society now that no lives matter and these poor animals that are snared dying a slow and painful death makes me so mad, anyone using or setting these medevil traps need fining as well as educating that these snares are despicable as are the scum that set them

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WTF ?? This is taking the piss, the snares are banned or is it fake news to feed us ??. Some of us have common sense !! Ban the bloody contraptions and that means collect the ones set out to trap the poor animals and dispose of them somewhere safe !!!!!!

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No matter what they ban evil vermin will do their dirty vile deeds

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Before snares can be truly confined to the past, society needs to re-educate the ignorant that still use them for the shooting industry. The work done to educate tribes in Africa to appreciate the wildlife around them as a means of enjoyment that will attract more tourism is one idea. Another, is to ensure that children learn to preserve nature and parents who teach their children to destroy nature should be prosecuted.

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That assumed that you can 're educate halfwits.

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I can hardly bear to think of those poor animals suffering. Only a true sociopath could set a trap like that.

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What "SUB HUMAN" piece of shit would use these "TORTURE" gadgets anyway, what "RIGHT" has some members of the "SO CALLED HUMAN RACE" got the "SICKNESS" to "KILL/MURDER" our most "AMAZING" "WILDLIFE", I "HATE " people and there "SUPPORTERS" who "PARTICIPATE" in "SICK" "FUCKING" "BLOODSPORTS", I would just love to "SHOOT the FUCKING SCUM" who do this "MASSACRE", what we need is a group of "TOUGH BRUISERS" who could dish out the "JUSTICE" to the "BLOODSPORT" "SAVAGE" MAGGOTS", give them a taste of there own "MEDICINE" "HATE THEM"

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Yes, in the majority of cases you are absolutely right. The focus should perhaps be on children to ensure they get better role models & dont grow up to behave like half wits and they naturally die out! On the other hand, in some circumstances adult hunters have been known to stop killing and work instead in conservation.

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WELL SAID, BARRY, AGREE TOTALLY, OR PUT THEM KN THEIR OWN SNARES, WONT BE IN A RUSH TO DO IT AGAIN, WILL THEY? Thats a very sick "joke," snares being laid to protect from predators!!! What is the worst predator in the world??? So called "MAN," we kill more than anything on this planet, but not just for food, as the other "predators" would, but for FUN, SPORT. What a shame all these sickos cant be wiped out for the good of the planet. What a better place it would be for the rest of us.

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That poor, poor fox. Although it is good and highly commendable that Wales have finally "banned" snares in writing, creating/making a law but not enforcing it strongly is just as useless as there not being any law to "ban" snares in the first place! Organising a proper Search through all the forests possible and houses of suspects, jailing and giving out very heavy fines to those scum found guilty of using snares and destroying all the snares found/known would be some good first steps to finally and properly enforce a true "ban" on snares.

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There are many laws in this country that people ignore, because they can, they are very rarely caught.

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