We're only allowed to kill certain animals. The animals we kill are quite literally a danger to our industries, companies, and households. It's not a primitive need to hunt, hell I kill paper circles in my spare time. I like shooting - killing off vermin is not only challenging, but a service to the country.
Setting a hawk on these vermin creatures is no different to shooting them, with the exception that, your weapon will most likely die of a disease, and you don't actually control it.
If you read SligSlingers post properly, you would see that the Rabbit was actually escaping its hutch, and making a real racket in the crawlspace under his house each night, causing SS to lose sleep. The owners were reluctant to fix the hutch, and seemed glad that it was causing him problems, so he killed the pest.
Personally, I would've simply caught it and taken it to an animal rescue, where a responsible family could take it in. But SS snapping like that as a result of sleep deprivation is completely understandable. Although, to be honest I'm suprised he didn't just kill the thing and go back to bed.
Killing a cat or a dog is indeed a hienous crime. I would personally persue and seriously injure anyone who killed any of my animals, simply because I am so attatched to them. But something like a rabbit sits in a hutch all day long, doing nothing in particular - it's impossible to become attatched to an animal like that, and to be honest, from what SS tells me about the owners, I don't think they really cared anyway.
As for grey's, I rarely kill them unless I am in a place where I can use a gun without causing alarm to bystanders. In other words, in my back yard, in game parks, and in the countryside.
Foxhunting is wrong. I am personally against foxhunting, and beleive it to be nothing more than a form of sadistic ritual. The hounds, the dress, the dogs, all of it. It's brutal, the animal suffers a long, drawn out death. As a rule of thumb, I never take a shot on a vermin if I don't think I can take it out without it even knowing - in contrast, these foxhunters allow their dogs to quite literally butcher the fox, then as it's being slaughtered, they take trophies like ears and paws.
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Id hate to waste a hambruger infront of him 
