The Hunt

it would appear you have a problem with the Dorset hunt.

As with our colleague earlier who claimed he had been assaulted by "The Quantock Beagles", there is no such organisation as The Dorset Hunt.

Hounds crossing farmland in Dorset could belong to the Portman, the Cattistock, the South Dorset, the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale, the Seavington, the Wilton or the South & West Wilts.

Alternatively, the hounds may not even be Foxhounds.
 

worker

Member
As with our colleague earlier who claimed he had been assaulted by "The Quantock Beagles", there is no such organisation as The Dorset Hunt.

Hounds crossing farmland in Dorset could belong to the Portman, the Cattistock, the South Dorset, the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale, the Seavington, the Wilton or the South & West Wilts.

Alternatively, the hounds may not even be Foxhounds.
It was the south Dorset hunt, last January.
 

worker

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We are carded (or emailed) by the local hunt if they are meeting nearby. I have been chastised in the past for running across a field of winter wheat with a pack of hounds, first by the huntsman and then by the master for not apologising to the landowner for any damage. Whips were always briefed at the meet as to where we could hunt and where we couldn't. Any livestock would have at least one whip posted to see that hounds were kept away from them. Mounted followers were kept under strict control by a field master, if you couldn't keep your horse on the headlands you were asked to go home.
Country's gone to the bow-wows !
I wish the hunt was this courteus where I farm, perhaps they could teach the south dorset hunt how to behave
 

Hilly

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What bugs me is the suggestion that the whole horse thing is of any benefit to the countryside. It's not - it's a whole bunch of pomp and ponce dressed up as a 'countryside pursuit. Newsflash: We manage quite well to control foxes in the rest of the country without red jackets, horses and the likes. If we have to use hounds (and we do sometimes) it is done discretely and with land rovers and 12 bores. Mostly, fox numbers are controlled with rifles and spotlights. Never have the need to employ a bunch of titled nonses with their horses.

Now, I don't want to ban hunting, but I do want to ban hunting with horses. And if ever there was a bunch went through here without asking first, I'd be using the full force of my firearms to destroy all those (non-human) animals which were worrying my animals - hounds, horses and all.

You need your firearms removed, your a nutter.
 

7610 super q

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We are carded (or emailed) by the local hunt if they are meeting nearby. I have been chastised in the past for running across a field of winter wheat with a pack of hounds, first by the huntsman and then by the master for not apologising to the landowner for any damage. Whips were always briefed at the meet as to where we could hunt and where we couldn't. Any livestock would have at least one whip posted to see that hounds were kept away from them. Mounted followers were kept under strict control by a field master, if you couldn't keep your horse on the headlands you were asked to go home.
Country's gone to the bow-wows !

It's come to my attention that folks are trying to SABOTAGE the hunt thread with early 80's naff tunes.:stop:

 
No one would hunt that close to what looks like a built up area by choice.

Occasionally hounds can stray from the day's organised draw for a variety of reasons.

As for that half-wit who suggested small children could be at risk from hounds... :banghead:
 

Still Farming

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Mixed Farmer
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Local hurays musta been out today, Horse boxes abandoned on the side of the road and and a pair of dickheads riding 2 a breast fully clad looking like a pair of pricks waving me to slow down ( busy road and I was doing 15mph )
I'm neither for or against but they wanna get some fudgeing road sense strokers
The mounted police around here ride like that on an A road too ?
 

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