Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
I used to follow a pack beofre than ban woud catch over 200 a season, dont tar all packs with the same brush pun intended , as usually the critics commenting have no clue what they are talking about.
Not to mention ones hit by cars!Ive seen hounds catch loads of half shot foxes.
And unhealthy dying ones that need dispatched. Cars kill more then double the amount of foxes than hounds, perhaps antis should not drive cars.Not to mention ones hit by cars!
Foxes going to ground and being dug up by terrier men is absolutely ridiculous
DYFED-Powys Police are investigating a report that five hounds belonging to the Llanwnnen Hunt were shot dead on private land in the Lampeter area.
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/arti...ICrd886Kk5jESlSbWjvs4Ir27a4vWvmAnZuMnV1-4v5e8
Foxes going to ground and being dug up by terrier men is absolutely ridiculous and I cannot believe hunts allow it. If I caught them digging up foxes here they would quickly be told where to go.
depends whether you want THAT fox killed. 'Lambing call' work is very much for a purpose.Foxes going to ground and being dug up by terrier men is absolutely ridiculous and I cannot believe hunts allow it. If I caught them digging up foxes here they would quickly be told where to go.
DYFED-Powys Police are investigating a report that five hounds belonging to the Llanwnnen Hunt were shot dead on private land in the Lampeter area.
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/arti...ICrd886Kk5jESlSbWjvs4Ir27a4vWvmAnZuMnV1-4v5e8
For the protection of game birds presumablydepends whether you want THAT fox killed. 'Lambing call' work is very much for a purpose.
depends whether you want THAT fox killed. 'Lambing call' work is very much for a purpose.
I don't have an issue with digging on its own for pest control in areas where it is difficult to shoot. But it seems un sporting when a fox has gone to ground after a hunt has chased it for miles to then dig it back up.The Suffolk arable boys are as far away from your style of farming as it is possible to be. They just don’t understand, livestock is a dirty word to them @Banana Bar had a brief dalliance with some sheep ...... but it didn’t last long Should qualify that statement as there is an enlightened organic farmer integrating sheep into arable cropping in Suffolk
For the protection of game birds presumably
a little tale for you then.
I used to rent a bit of ground off an old pal off the hill, it being handy for putting ewes with twins away to in the spring.
He dutifully kept an eye, and was soon noticing a lamb per night going.
He happened to be a keen 'rough shoot' man -sadly now long underground- of the old skool countryman type.
He was out night after night after this sodding fox, but never saw it. The lambs kept going.
Driven bat sh*t to think I was losing lambs like this, we called in the local MFH, who came with a couple of hounds, and a shovel.
Quite nearby, they marked an earth in some woods, and dug out a 3 legged fox, who'd been living very nicely on my lambs.
I've seldom witnessed it as neat as this, but it was a perfect bit of practical work.
And no, i don't shoot pheasants, or ride to hounds