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Rabbits are classified as vermin but foxes are not, hence why you are allowed to shoot them willy nilly.
Its worth remembering that its not just foxes that you can't tear to pieces with packs of hounds, its any animal that is not classified as vermin that you can't touch like that.
Hares, foxes etc are off limits. Rabbits and people with less money than you are fair game.
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I've never found the population control argument that convincing; have fox populations exploded since the hunting ban? As to shooting, is there any reason why you need trained marksmen to shoot foxes but not rabbits?
I can see there's an appeal to thundering around the countryside in a group - I quite like to do the same on a bike - but I don't see why that urge can't be fulfilled by point-to-points and drag hunting.