WOW! What a rant from Ken Holmes (Leaky argument?, Letters, January 17) about fox hunting.

Can I please start with Ken’s first points – how would I deal with a cuckoo throwing young from a robin’s nest and a lamb being taken from its mother.

It is nature, Ken, so although I would intervene if I was there I would not hold a grudge.

As for my point about hunt people and their families being chased, it was about people like you just stopping and thinking about the pain you inflict on living creatures.

As for your final comment about Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine – yes as you can maybe imagine I hate cruelty in any shape or form, so just be grateful Ken that you do not live in these countries or be something that so-called human beings hunt.

N Hillen, Wains Road, Dringhouses, York.