Hunting haiku

[tectak]

Thank you all for your kind words and feedback

Erthona - Sometimes when looking at the sun it seems white, or just a blur of white light. The fox was gored, or pierced, by hounds' jaws (it's about fox-hunting in England). He's since been left and somewhat covered by fallen leaves, which form a pattern on his body. Thank you for your honest critique, and those lovely puns

John Galt - I live in England, and the fox was gored by a pack of hounds, led by toffs on horseback Thank you for your kind critique! I have to ask, by the way: did you get your name from Atlas Shrugged?

ChristopherSea - Is fox-hunting a thing outside the UK? And by fox-hunting I mean the upper-classes-in-red-coats-and-black-hats-on-horseback variety. Foxes can be useful, as you say, though I feel a bti sorry for the poor squirrel! Thank you for your interesting comments.

Oh yes, there is fox hunting through Europe, United States and Australia. I think that using hounds to chase and tear the poor beast apart is outlawed for the most part. Now, they just flush them out of the bush and chase them into their lairs. The Chase must be halted after they take to going underground.

...or we poison them so that they die rotting in their lairs, or shoot them badly so that they bleed to death slowly or die of starvation and thirst. Snares are often used, too. These catch the fox by paw or muzzle and tighten in the ensuing struggle so that the hapless creature often loses a limb to gangrene before finally succumbing.
I was chatting to a fox last week and he said bring back hunting...but he said it with little hope of it ever happening...what with the plethora of humane ways of killing his species.
Best,
tectak (an english coutryman and animal lover. God preserve us from the ignorant righteous.)