TO Mr and Mrs Fox, please read this and take action as soon as possible.

I strongly recommend that you contact your relatives who live in towns with a view to moving in with them as soon as possible.

If not, you are all in danger of death. You must realise that unlike hounds, who are bred and trained to rip you to shreds, you have no right to protection in your natural environment.

It would also help human drivers like myself, who are in danger from hounds running loose and unsupervised on rural roads, hunt packs riding fast down B class roads when it’s almost dark and horses, riders and horse boxes lurking on roads on blind corners (all of which yours truly has seen in recent times).

Not to mention the fate of your little ones, who may be clubbed to death by the men in red coats.

This is all the more likely to happen if a human called David Cameron becomes the next Prime Minister, because although he has said a lot of time was wasted in passing a law to try to protect you, he is proposing to waste even more time trying to get it repealed.

Believe me, you will be much safer in towns because most people there would not put up with this outdated and cruel socalled “countryside tradition"”

PAT STOKES-SMITH Woodgate Lodge, Hope Bowdler.