I'm finding it odd that people think hunting is cruelty. Having an animal raised in the wild before meeting it's maker by a single shot to the vs raised in captivity, pumped full of antibiotics and slowly killed by electrocution. Just look at Halal butchering, ****'s barbaric.
Owning two dogs (a Gordon Setter and a wire-haired dachshund), I appreciate hunting and often let my neighbour use the Gordon Setter for hunting. Poor boy's too enthusiastic to be much good; he gives chase to quickly. If you have to hurt your dog to discipline him, you haven't raised him right. People who have never had a dog and get Jack Russells really annoy me, as they're NOT for people who little experience raising dogs, same with Rottweilers and the like.
If anyone punches a dog around me I'd probably give the guy a Glasgow kiss.