Recently on Radio Leicester, a member of staff from the Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital said there had been an increase in the number of injured foxes taken there for treatment.

Many city residents feed them and even buy particular food for their "resident" foxes, which they treat as pets.

It seems ironic that other people are hell-bent on killing them ("Bad law that must be repealed", Mailbox, November 2).

The pro-hunt campaigners want the Hunting Act to be repealed as it is "a bad law that has failed".

The law has failed. Organised hunts have continued to take place around the country and it has been reported that police don't consider enforcing the law which bans hunting as a priority.

If all laws were treated with such disrespect we would have anarchy. Rather than repealing the Hunting Act it needs to be tightened up and properly enforced.

Those who favour this barbaric, archaic activity are no better than the hooligans who cause so much havoc and misery in our city streets.

Elizabeth Allison, Aylestone.