Boxing Day Hunt Meets

[Matthew Arnold]

Hunting is the best method of fox-control going.

 

How do you work that out??

 

It picks out the old,diseased, dying, injured ones and leaves the healthy stock.

[mdt]

So the healthy ones get away then??

[born2trot]

So the healthy ones get away then??

 

Their healthy if they get away from dogs 100%.

There is no gaurantee of this if shot at.

When it comes to humane pest control methods there is just no easy way round about it.

You have a right to be aggrieved at the attitude of some of the red coat brigade but i can gaurantee you it extends to ALL countrysports.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Well we had an interesting afternoon!! Arrived at the fields we use for the Clydesdales to do some manure collection for tree planting and could see in the distance a fox hunt going on with loads of horses. (no polite notice from them there was a hunt due)

 

So closed the middle field gate incase of issues. (sixth sense)

 

The hounds came much closer and caused the cattle herd to charge along the hedge wall with them following. The neighbours black mare spooked so much and ran and crashed into the high stone wall knocking it down and ending up in the fields we use. (bruised legs and bleeding cuts)

 

Meantime the large fox sneaked past the stable block and into a private garden with all the dogs following:lol: Then it vanished towards the main road.

 

I hate to think of the outcome if we had not been there and not a single person from the hunt followers watching offered to help with catching that horse and opening gates/stopping traffic on the public road. The Clydesdales herded the horse to the side in the end and the woman horse owner arrived fuming big style.

 

We know under the "Animals Act 1971" that all dogs on Agricultural land worrying livestock (which includes horses) can be shot with legal defence so presume that includes dogs from a hunt. There were no horse men/women close at the time to control the hounds.

[18 stoner]

A shot from our local Boxing Day Hunt.

 

Dont want to get into the political side of it, just to say I was there, took this and wanted to share with you all.

 

 

 

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[Arborist]

So the healthy ones get away then??

 

It gets away all right !!

 

It go's to ground the hunt move off and the terrier men dig it out and shoot it!

[Sam Thompson]

Hunting is the best method of fox-control going.

 

How do you work that out??

 

Round here it is without doubt. Down in Cheshire then a N/V or lamping rig is more productive, of course. But in the fells it doesn't work. Hill farmers need the hunts, hill farmers are the hunts!

[waz77]

Only if the landowner wants it accounting for, would'nt be very effective pest control if it was left

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

The hunt called this morning and a man turned up this afternoon to mend the damage to the stone wall. Have said we will be informed of future events to avoid problems which is good. Neighbours black mare still with some leg damage and being stabled.

[born2trot]

The hunt called this morning and a man turned up this afternoon to mend the damage to the stone wall. Have said we will be informed of future events to avoid problems which is good. Neighbours black mare still with some leg damage and being stabled.

 

Dont know how your neighbour feels at the moment but there certainly would be no need for the hunt to inform me of future events . If that had been my horse there definetly would be a problem and a massive one at that.