I AGREE with George Cowley, Nature is cruel and yes, the fox is a predator. But, not having been endowed with the powers of reasoning and compassion, it does not know any better and will get food wherever it can.

However, Mankind has been endowed with these two attributes although a certain section chooses to ignore them and prefers to perpetuate cruelty whenever it can, as witnessed by the massive show of force against one defenceless animal at the Boxing Day hunt at Droitwich.

MRS MARION J LARGE,

Lower Wick,

Worcester.