Here we go again......

[SEL]

What is the law about hounds on private land that they have no permission to be on?

Had a very stressful morning with my old boy turning himself inside out and galloping round, hounds scattered across my top field (& in the water trough) and 3 sweaty, worked up horses in the stables that I daren't let back out because after last night's rain my fields are a slippery mess. Late for work having to wait for everyone to settle.

I have a live and let live attitude to hunting, but not with watching foxes and the muntjac being flushed out of a copse and taking full flight across my fields - thankfully without the hounds in pursuit or I'd have been even more angry than I was earlier.

There is no set trail across my fields!

What's more frustrating is the hunt staff have been exercising the hounds around my yard all winter and their behaviour has been impeccable. Even when my gates were open and I suddenly had curious hounds sniffing around they were called back and on their way without any mischief at all. Its just when the riders turn up that manners seem to get forgotten.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I would write to the hunt and quote your last paragraph there.. just a reminder of manners, and then if that doesn't work look to kick off a bit more formally.

 

[SEL]

I would write to the hunt and quote your last paragraph there.. just a reminder of manners, and then if that doesn't work look to kick off a bit more formally.

I will. I was in the field trying to calm my big lad down so I got a photo and I can clearly mark out my boundaries on google earth.

There's no way they can keep the hounds under control in that copse. Its full of fox, deer, rabbits etc and they all cross my land so its understandable the hounds would come into the fields. So if they can't keep them under control they shouldn't flippin be there!

Still Cross.

 

[Tiddlypom]

The Kimblewick trespassing again? Remind them that there is a new regulatory body that is supposed to be overseeing the practice of lawful compliance in hunting with hounds, which they should be well aware of seeing as the Head of Hunting for the Countryside Alliance hunts with them.

Don't pull your punches, or you will be seen as being weak and of no matter.

https://thehuntingoffice.org.uk/news

A separate new regulatory body, to administer all regulation and disciplinary matters for members and member hunts according to the rules set by the BHSA, will be called the Hound Sports Regulatory Authority (HSRA).

 

[SEL]

The Kimblewick trespassing again? Remind them that there is a new regulatory body that is supposed to be overseeing the practice of lawful compliance in hunting with hounds, which they should be well aware of seeing as the Head of Hunting for the Countryside Alliance hunts with them.

Who is this? Not getting a clear answer from google

 

[Tiddlypom]

https://www.countryside-alliance.org/news/2020/10/my-favourite-kit-with-polly-portwin

 

[paddy555]

what time is the master coming out to discuss it with you? I would expect tonight or early tomorrow morning. Writing is not quick enough I would expect them out now so they can walk around every bit of your boundary. .
When this happened to me I had the master out early the following morning. Things did improve after that.

Whilst the hunt may allow their hounds to get out of control onto private land there is no reason why landowners should ignore it. The hunt needs keeping under better control than their hounds.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I'm so sorry that your old lad got so upset and then lame yesterday after being razzed up by the hunt. I hope that today went as well as it could.

Re the Kimblewick, it's odd that any connection between the Countryside Alliance's Head of Hunting and the Kimblewick seem to have vanished if you google. It was there to be found ?.

Still, if you go back to 8 Nov 2018 she is named in Horse and Hound's magazine's Pack of the Week feature as their Field Master for the day.

Apologies for the drip feed of updates, but I’ve been doing some more sleuthing. Polly Portwin, the Head of Hunting at the Countryside Alliance, is Field Master for the Kimblewick Hunt.

There was a glowing four page report on the Kimblewick Hunt in H&H mag on 8/11/18. The Kimblewick was the featured Pack of the Week. Polly Portwin was the Field Master on the day.

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The two guilty men are the ‘countryman’ and the ‘amateur countryman’ of the hunt.

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What a bloody shambles. This pack (and goodness knows how many others) and a prominent CA employee were in cahoots to facilitate illegal hunting. I do not believe that anyone so closely associated with the Hunt as the Field Master can not have known what was going on to facilitate a day’s sport.