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Quite! 🤣 I've had a lovely day's trail hunting today. A children's meet with many small, quite excited ponies having a perfectly safe...

Well, Lawks! I mean ‘scarlet fever’ is a well known phenomenon. 🤣

For some people it is a significant part of their community and cultural life - I can't see why saying that is a 'tactic'. It's just...

I too only know the term venery in relation to hunting and hunting expertise.

Gosh. It’s the science of hunting. I’ve led a sheltered life, honestly. In France they have Grand Venerie (Stag and buck) and Petit...

Complete side-topic, but I used the word venery in a sentence a few years ago to mean the act of hunting (because this is the only...

I have no desire whatsoever to go drag hunting. Galloping like madmen along pre arranged courses? Just go hunter trailing. (Not dissing...

Out of interest what first hand experience do you have of hunt kennels? Certainly our local pack sounds similar to that described for...

I don’t think you can extrapolate from speaking to one owner of working dogs to then judging that every single hound pack in the country...

I have no skin in the game because I dont hunt - but I do live near the kennels of one of the hunts & the hounds are happy and well...

They very rarely bother foot hunts which suggests to me that either a) they are basically lazy and are put off by the country foot...

I'm pained on a weekly basis about the damage being done to the countryside and wildlife, but of the things that pain me, pack hound...

To be sure of my facts, I checked last weeks magazine, the paper one…top right is the quote….I cannot check again, as I have lent my...