LONDON – Social media has been full of smiley-faced foxes over the last 24 hours.
The vote on whether or not to relax fox hunting laws in England and Wales, which was due to take place Wednesday, was cancelled after the Scottish National Party threatened to vote down Conservative reforms, and people have been celebrating on Twitter and Instagram.
Pictures of happy foxes, smug foxes, illustrations of foxes and even fox tattoos have been doing the rounds since the announcement on Tuesday.
The vote on whether to relax the hunting ban has been dropped in the face of probable defeat. Well done. We won. pic.twitter.com/b2IatZ4c8s— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 14, 2015
When you hear Cameron had to cancel the #foxhunting vote because there aren't enough psychos to support him pic.twitter.com/HvZSkckIBt— Lily Bailey (@LilyBaileyUK) July 14, 2015
The 1 positive thing to come out of the day,and it's a big one! In your face, tories! Smiley fox is smiley :) #keeptheban #fox #foxhunting A photo posted by @mattiemoomuse on Jul 14, 2015 at 6:29am PDT
The greatest thing to come out of this #keeptheban campaign? It's #smugfox pic.twitter.com/swinnsqAMF— georgina ward (@Geo_Scarlet) July 14, 2015
#ukparliament has dropped the vote on relaxing the ban on #foxhunting due to overwhelming opposition! #savethefoxes #keeptheban #huntcameronnotfoxes A photo posted by Cherry (@cherrytargaryen) on Jul 14, 2015 at 5:54am PDT
Ahhh a happy day for Mr Fox..... #foxhunting #fox pic.twitter.com/aFnwJDyuIB— Little Red Boots (@littleredboot) July 14, 2015
#keeptheban #foxhunting #animallovers #animalrights #animalrightsmovement #love A photo posted by Mrs GC (@slimmingworld_mrsgc_sw) on Jul 14, 2015 at 4:55pm PDT
#foxhunting vote cancelled #FABULOUS A photo posted by alicevandy (@alicevandy) on Jul 14, 2015 at 1:55pm PDT
My fox chum, probably celebrating the SNP's scuppering of the Torrie's vote to relax fox hunting laws. #foxesofinstagram #fox #foxhunting A photo posted by Pop Redux (@pop_redux) on Jul 14, 2015 at 12:43pm PDT
Glad the fox hunting ban is staying! #illustration #illustrator #painting #paint #watercolour #creative #art #artist #instaartist #instaart #artoftheday #fox #foxhunting A photo posted by @k_beltrami_art on Jul 14, 2015 at 11:10am PDT
#gorgeous #foxhunting #foxcub #madeup #banned #freedom #beautiful #nature A photo posted by carla (@carlapink1984) on Jul 14, 2015 at 10:51am PDT
Shoutout to anyone who signed the online petition for the #FoxHunting ban, For now they are safe! A photo posted by Daniel Jordan (@dan_blackaltar) on Jul 14, 2015 at 7:17am PDT
Sleep for now, you're safe for a while #fox #foxhunting #sketch #ink #pencil #drawing #illustrator #illustration #sleepy #cute #foxhunt #ban #davidcameron A photo posted by Amanda Louise Foster (@mandaloouise) on Jul 14, 2015 at 9:13am PDT