Anne Williams, of Weston-fields, Totnes, writes:

In reply to the letter from Tim Bonner, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, Chronicle, November 10, I have to ask: is this man for real?

May I inform him that this is the year 2015, when people are more aware than ever of animal rights? May I suggest that he visits Brian May’s web page for more information on animal cruelty and animal welfare, as he clearly needs some guidance on this subject?

I was one of those people who petitioned MP Dr Sarah Wollaston to vote against the amendment to the Hunting Act that the Tories sneakily tried to bring in.

I am proud that I did this and would do it again if needed – I do not want to hear the usual lame excuses such as foxes being a nuisance to farmers etc, when it is really an excuse for a group of grown men and women with packs of hounds to chase a fox for miles until the point of exhaustion and then watch ­gleefully as it is ripped to pieces.

This is not the Middle Ages, for goodness’ sake.

Perhaps they would also like to see bear-baiting and witch-burning make their comebacks too.

As for the spoilt, pathetic hunting fraternity: I hold them is less regard than something I would wipe off the bottom of my shoe.