Bicester Hunt Kill Fox

[millikins]

... unless I am much mistaken, the intro to the video is literally the dogs ripping apart the fox is it not?

It's a video of hounds tussling over an obviously dead fox. It's a clip taken from later in the video where the sab catches up with them.

 

[millikins]

You think the woman in the video picked up some random dead fox and started waving it at the huntsman?

I think they only reported that an incident had occurred because they had been caught in the act.

Sabs do have form for using road kill foxes to "demonstrate" illegal hunting.

I don't know if the Bicester Hunt killed this fox, but as I said I don't think that video would stand up as proof.

It is a terrible law and is impossible to enforce. It is illegal to hunt and kill a fox using a pack of hounds. But it is not illegal to hunt and kill a fox using a pack of hounds so long as it was an accident. The police aren't interested so it is left to a bunch of what are essentially vigilantes, often using illegal activity themselves to prove that another group who say they are acting legitimately are in fact breaking the law.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Pro hunt do also like to claim that sabs plant road kill foxes for hounds to find and tear up. It's a convenient attempt at a cop out. Pots and kettles.

That was a very fresh looking fox, though, not a bedraggled one that might have been hauled out of someone's freezer.

 

[ycbm]

trail hunting= fox urine
drag hounds the human runner takes an artificial scent,
bloodhounds think they just scent the runner

Some drag hunts lay the scent on a horse's foot. I've done trail laying once. I thought my hard pulling horse would finally settle if he was right at the front laying the trail, but if anything he pulled even harder! He really lived to jump hedges ?

 

[ester]

Now you've said that I think the cambs have used a horse on the occasions they are struggling for a runner.

 

[skinnydipper]

It is illegal to hunt and kill a fox using a pack of hounds. But it is not illegal to hunt and kill a fox using a pack of hounds so long as it was an accident.

I think there would be less likelihood of "accidental" fox hunting if the hounds were not trained using fox derived scent. Is it beyond the skill of experienced trail huntsmen to train the hounds to track an artificial scent?

 

[Tiddlypom]

What scent do the drag packs use? I seem to remember aniseed being mentioned.

 

[ester]

I think it used to be aniseed but is something else now.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

It's a video of hounds tussling over an obviously dead fox. It's a clip taken from later in the video where the sab catches up with them.

Ahh apologies, I didn't watch the whole thing.

 

[palo1]

What scent do the drag packs use? I seem to remember aniseed being mentioned.

One local drag pack near us uses the huntsman's pee...cheap, freely available and clearly distinguishable!