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 Home > News and alerts > You are here: Animal rights group defends fox that mauls baby Animal rights group defends fox that mauls baby (7/24/2002) A British animal rights group that opposes fox hunting showed
more compassion for a fox that attacked a baby than it did for the
recovering child and his parents. In Kent, England, a
fox entered a home and attacked fourteen-week-old Louis Day while he
slept. Louis’ father threw things at the animal to chase it away, and
was later told by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals (RSPCA), a powerful animal rights group in Britain, that he
could have been prosecuted if he had harmed the fox. After the attack,
RSPCA spokeswoman Klare Kennett, said, "foxes do not pose a safety
risk." Trevor Williams,
director of the fox protection group The Fox Project did not consider
the incident an attack at all. "That indicates something vicious
and wild," he said. Nearby residents
have asked the RSPCA and local authorities to help solve the problem of
nuisance foxes, but as Louis’ mother explained, "They seem more
interested in the foxes and tell us we can’t hurt them." People continue to fall prey to emotional anti-hunting rhetoric and allow bans on hunting and trapping. They learn too late that sportsmen are beneficial and help control wildlife populations. Unfortunately, the baby mauling comes as England faces a fox-hunting ban. CopyrightÓ U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance- www.ussportsmen.org
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