Fox Hunting: Prato, the Province authorizes the containment with the killing of 100 animals but without the methods of hunting in the den and without the use of dogs. Animated controversy; for Coldiretti it is necessary to act.
Foxes will be hunted. Thus expressed the provincial councilor Antonio Napolitano at the end of the first point of the hunting consultation. On the table there was the burning affair of the executive determination that provided for the fox hunt in the den, then suspended by the commissioner himself. Next week a council resolution or a new resolution will be promulgated, which will cancel the previous one. Therefore YES to the killing of about one hundred foxes in the Prato area but without the use of dogs. It will therefore be an experimental method. A consultation where the spirits were hot. On the one hand those who were in favor of reducing the number of mammals in question, on the other those who argued that culling is not necessary. "The determination was completely legitimate - Napolitano pointed out - but we want to find a less traumatic method to bring down the bosses". There are those who have contested the way the Province operates which, at the first outcry by some more or less well-known personalities, suspended the determination, while there is a need for effective intervention, in the opinion of Coldiretti. For Francesco Bini di Federcaccia there is no desire to collaborate when the time comes. “The way in which the censuses are made is criticized - he says -. Those who do so could actively participate in this operation, so they would understand how it is implemented ”.
Bini, as well as the others present, underlined, once again, how burrowing has never been practiced in Prato. The assembly was particularly animated and, if the cruel way of hunting in the den was criticized, there are those who were of the opinion that all the killings are gruesome according to the point of view. Camilla Lattanzi of Controradio's show “We remain animals” intervened claiming, as has been done since the beginning of this story, that it is not necessary to kill foxes. “There are alternative methods - he explains -. And one of these is the capture of young females and their subsequent sterilization ”.
The hot potato passed into the hands of the councilor Napolitano. Which, given the excess number of foxes, is in favor of reducing the number of animals. To understand if with a dog following the hunter or not. In the end, the second hypothesis comes up. With all due respect to all. Almost.
6 June 2013
Source: IlTirreno - Prato