The new Hunting With Dogs Bill will have “unintended consequences” on legitimate and vital fox control, Perthshire farmers have said.On Tuesday evening, MSPs voted by 90 votes to 30 in favour of the Hunting With Dogs Bill, which updates the 2002 Protection of Mammals Act.The bill states clearly that the act of chasing and killing a mammal with a dog for sport has absolutely no place and will no longer be tolerated in Scotland.The bill followed a review of the 2002 Act by Lord Bonomy who identified that there is “basis for suspecting” that illegal fox hunting is still taking place in Scotland and that nobody has ever been successfully prosecuted under existing rules.Supporters of the legislation say that the recent vote clarifies language around what constitutes an offence and closes loopholes that have been taken advantage of in the past two decades.Furthermore, parliament agreed on the opinion that there is a need for land managers to conduct reasonable predator control.The bill allows for killing foxes as vermin control, but insists this must be done in a way that is efficient and humane.Ian Duncan Millar MBE farms 320-acre Tirinie, four miles west of Aberfeldy, and also a hill farm with 650 ewes at Wester Tullich to the south of Loch Tay.He was a founder member, and chairman for 12 years, of the influential Farmers’ Assurance group for cattle and sheep and most recently he was made the new RHASS president for the Royal Highland Show.He said there have been “unintended consequences” in the Scottish Government’s bid to stop fox hunting, and hunting with dogs.Mr Duncan Millar said: “One of these consequences is that the important service of predator control provided by the several foot packs in Scotland have been caught
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