Recent content by Herne

I think you will be able to find people (and I mean good people, not any old idiot) who would hunt your horse for free. Some might want you to pay their cap if they are not subscribers to the hunt you wanted your horse to go with.

Good question. In a word, no (apart from the fallen stock service, where relevant, but that is by no means universal). Most farmers who continue to welcome the hunt would probably scratch their heads a bit if you asked them to say why. I think for most of them it's probably a mixture of not...

Well, if you did all that, then you are certainly doing your bit. You were fibbing when you said you keep it all to yourself... Ignorance is a sad thing. Hunters do pay a lot of money for their hobby - but they don't pay the farmers for their hospitality, and it's a bit sad that people don't...

As if that would be my attitude - you know I love a good argument... But if one person says A=B and another then says "Actually A could equal B or C", then its just silly for someone else just to leap in 15 posts down the line implying that A=B is an undisputed fact, without saying why he...

Nope - but the quote was about hunting people's (and, specifically, my) attitude to Farmers = and in that regard, MoH's attitudes are tested under fire in a way that other people's are not. Those that have a bad attitude to their farmers do not last very long at all - or, at least, one has to...

Alec, that's fair enough. If the hunt and/or it's followers have blotted their copy-book, then that's a different kettle of fish - although, I would still hope that an ex-hunter would be infinitely more tolerant than someone who hadn't - but everyone has a breaking point and lack of...

Not you. In my first post, I explained the semantic difference between the words "sport" as used in the context of "field sports" and the word "sport" as used in the context of "games" such as Rugby and Soccer. Loads of the subsequent posts make points that were already addressed in my post...

You think that more then 50% of the people on this forum have been Masters of hounds? Really? You amaze me... (and frighten me)

I do hope you'd like to put a large sum of money on that bet? Very, very large... Sadly, I think there is a lot of truth in that.

Yep, I saw it. Look, I have absolutely no issues with your rights as a landowner to do or not do whatever you want with your land. It's your land. I think it is very obliging of any farmer to welcome the hunt and I fully understand the shooting issue, as I have made clear elsewhere on this...

Clodagh, you know very little about my attitude. I have been an MFH, and I came out of more than a decade of mastership with the hunt welcome on more land, more frequently than it was when I went in. Unlike most people on this forum, my attitude has been tried and tested in real life. What I...

Harsh? Oh no, believe me, that wasn't harsh - that was me being incredibly, incredibly diplomatic. As is the fact that I have deleted three versions of a much longer and more detailed reply to this. Suffice it to say that I still think you should consider yourself extremely lucky that all...

Of course the farmers have to prioritise the shoot. The shoot forms part of the farm income, whereas the hunt is only there under sufferance. What I agree is rather sad is the increasing number of people who only care about their own sport to the exclusion of all others - but it's up to the...

Hunting and shooting can get on together quite well. I know some very commercial shoots that have hounds through on a regular basis right the way through the season with no problems. Obviously you don't want them immediately before a day, but given a few days rest, everything will be back to...

If that was addressed at me, advocating freedom of choice is the very antitheses of pontification...