YOUR article headlined "Man's blessed friend" (Evening News, Saturday, October 30) begs one question.

If Penny Plath accepts Christian teaching, she believes that "everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks" - Timothy 4.4.

How then does she justify asking the Church to bless her destructive pastime of stag hunting and hare coursing? What have these innocent creatures done to her?

HELEN SMART, Worcester.