They also state that marksmen's services would be expensive. They state that they would seek to protect their livestock from foxes whatever arguments are put forward that they do not need to. Therefore, the result of banning Foxhunting would be an increase in the total duration of fox suffering. Unless tended impracticably frequently leg-capture snares impose long periods of suffering. Strangulation snares often lead to a relatively slow death.
All snares are relatively unselective.
Foxes have been found having nearly bitten off a leg to escape the snare. This does involve an undesirably longer period of confrontation than the very quick kill at the end of a chase. Approved foxhunts have to use terriers from time to time. If Hunts refused to kill foxes under these circumstances very few farmers would allow the chase to cross their farms. Approved Foxhunts operate within a strictly enforced set of rules .