I support those who seek to maintain valuable resources and protect them from excessive harvest.

I do not know what the details of hound hunting in Namibia are, but to categorically state that hound hunting is unethical is ridiculous and absurd.

We on this Forum have hashed out various "divide and conquer" schemes by the antihunters over the years but the worst and most aggregious form of antihunting politics comes from within hunting groups themselves, where one group feels it has the "moral higher ground" over another.

Removing a harvest tool {in this case hound hunting} from the toolkit has many pitfalls.

Those who call hound hunting "unfair", not only ignore that the use of dogs is one of the most ancient forms of hunting but they also open themselves to attack from the outside as inconsistent hypocrites and indeed, are inconsistent hypocrites. They should look forward to a few such attacks by jilted hound hunters, too. If hound hunting can be called "unfair", how much more so the use of bait...and the killing of game to use for bait can easily be attacked as wastage of game.

Possibly some specific methods employed by hound hunters should modified. Possibly overharvest of the resource is occuring and this, too should be curtailed. These are points that can be addressed without yet again arrogantly and highmindedly painting one hunting group with the broad brush and sweeping into oblivion a valuable tool of the harvest AND giving ammo to the antihunters.

IF, and I say IF {it is a news article after all...} these fellows have decided to cast stones at the use of dogs, in my opinion they have made a very big mistake.