Which sport was banned by Adolf Hitler in 1936 and by England from February 2005?

Tally Ho, Fred darling!

One of Adolf's less controversial moves, at least historically speaking, was to outlaw fox hunting.
Then that peasant, Tony, went and upset a lot of people in the Home Counties, when he banned the sport.
Since 2005 "the unspeakable," are no longer "in full pursuit of the uneatable"
as Oscar so nicely put it!

Must say though, I did like those nifty little jackets and the long leather boots, ..and the servants always had a hot toddy ready on my return from the day's exertions!

They are still out there every Boxing Day.It's an excuse to dress up and get a bit of cross-country in (in a Range Rover, usually ) Actually staying in a Range Rover isn't a bad method: there's a fox as roadkill on the road from here, which is one more than the Thurlow Hunt normally gets !

Where I live there are so many sorts of road kills, that there is a standing joke about "Road Kill Cafes". Deer, possum, ground hogs, rabbits, fox are just the beginning of the list for whats "on the menu".

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
They are still out there every Boxing Day.It's an excuse to dress up and get a bit of cross-country in (in a Range Rover, usually ) Actually staying in a Range Rover isn't a bad method: there's a fox as roadkill on the road from here, which is one more than the Thurlow Hunt normally gets !

Ah yes the ubiquitous Range Rover, de rigueur for the Hunting set!
So there are exceptions to the new law then Fred..hunting is still allowed on Boxing Day?

In my experience, coming from Buckinghamshire, where the hunt was extremely popular, the dogs and hunters did more damage to private property than they usually did to the fox.

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So there are exceptions to the new law then Fred..hunting is still allowed on Boxing Day?

No exceptions. The hunts still meet and Boxing Day was always the big day for a meet but they are not allowed to hunt. They are allowed a drag hunt. The law is weakened by being a compromise, just to get it passed. So the law allows drag hunts and foxes may be killed by birds of prey , there's nothing to stop the hunt dragging a dead fox to leave a scent, provided the fox was not killed by hounds, and there is a nice grey area where anyone out with dogs may claim that a fox was accidentally killed by them, contrary to the handler's intention

The biggest hindrance to fox-hunting is one you cite.It's that farmers don't want it on their land. We did not and do not allow any hunt across our land. It doesn't do any good to the barley ( remember that we have winter barley nowadays) or the land itself or the peace of livestock.

That's quite apart from the fact that the arguments for it are utter nonsense. The greatest one is that it is controlling vermin. Yes. Now what rat- catcher would get a job on condition that he guaranteed 1)that there would be enough rats left to breed for next year 2) he would only kill them in the winter months and never in the breeding season and 3) he was not allowed to shoot them but was obliged to employ ,say, thirty couple of hounds, forty horses,riders, grooms, stablehands, farriers and others all year in the expectation of killing perhaps two rats a week and often failing to catch any after a full day's work ?

Exactly, Fred. And very eloquently put.

Fred, let me add that not only do the hunts cause damage to crops, but also to small private gardens.
Where I lived, in a small village out in the countryside, it was nothing for these arrogant oafs to ride into back gardens to round up their dogs.
In the process they destroyed fences, and anything else that got in their way.
So lest you think from my tongue in cheek first reply that I am a supporter of the sport,let me add that I'm not especially sorry to see it go!

However, it does appear that what at first seemed to be a ban, is in fact a consession to placate those opposed to hunting.

Exactly Fred, very well said.

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Where I lived, in a small village out in the countryside, it was nothing for these arrogant oafs to ride into back gardens to round up their dogs.

Now there are as many foxes in towns as in the countryside,more, at a guess. Thank goodness for the ban: imagine a pack of hounds rampaging through Islington, in full cry,knocking over the dustbins and marking the patio decking whilst hot on the trail !

Killing foxes makes no sense anyway. We lost near enough two acres to rabbits last year. And what do foxes eat in abundance ? Exactly. The more the merrier, say I ! And as for killing poultry: well,foxes are very cunning but the first one that manages to get into a chicken producer's like Grampian Country Foods (200 million broilers a year) and kill any of theirs definitely deserves a reward for cleverness