Maybe if drag hunting were more vocal in distancing themselves from illegal hunting and educated the public they would have a chance. This farce can not go on. Hunts are just carrying on as they did pre ban with lots of evidence to the fact.
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, and the Warwickshire Hunt was the subject of a 13 minute segment on Channel 4 news tonight. If watching on catch up, it is on from 33 mins to 46 mins in.
.Absolutely fascinating viewing, change is definitely coming I felt that from listening to the police officer and this shady side deal is another nail in the trail hunt coffin.The highly suspect and dubious secret protocol between Warwickshire Police, whose PCC is a member of the Countryside Alliance
The secret protocol is so secret that neither the local MP or the National lead on policing in hunting, or indeed anyone else, have been able to find out just what the heck is in it
What it does do is to let the Warwickshire Hunt off the hook re the CPN that was previously issued to it due to antisocial behaviour causing traffic chaos.
This cosy arrangement stank from the start. Well done C4 for airing it. Surely the Warwickshire Police will now be forced to make public the secret protocol and how it came to be.
I hunt and bloodhound (trail hunting) and honestly find blood hounding to be far more enjoyable… sorry, very controversial I know!! The best days out hunting when the hounds are flying are like nothing else but they’re so so infrequent. Blood hounding I know that with the large amount of money I pay for a day in guaranteed to get some good jumping in. May be just because I’m an adrenaline junky but I go to jump big hedges after a few glasses of port and with blood hounding that’s generally a guarantee, Unlike hunting. I suppose I see it a bit like a massive team chase. It will be a massive shame if hunting comes to an end as I have had some good days out but if a ban takes trail hunting down too I’ll be heartbroken.
Trail hunting and hunting with bloodhounds are different things, it's trail hunting not sticking to the rules what have caused the problems. If you were trail hunting surely there'd be no reason for stopping/starting because you'd be following a pre laid trail?
I really hope things will now change. The complete arrogance of the Master saying " Well no one else needs to know" and saying after a clip of a fox being killed " IF we broke the law it will be investigated" The warwickshire hunt is deluded.The highly suspect and dubious secret protocol between Warwickshire Police, whose PCC is a member of the Countryside Alliance
The secret protocol is so secret that neither the local MP or the National lead on policing in hunting, or indeed anyone else, have been able to find out just what the heck is in it
What it does do is to let the Warwickshire Hunt off the hook re the CPN that was previously issued to it due to antisocial behaviour causing traffic chaos.
This cosy arrangement stank from the start. Well done C4 for airing it. Surely the Warwickshire Police will now be forced to make public the secret protocol and how it came to be.
each trail stops though, then you do too.
Just to trot in a small but repetitive circle it is not tradition to throw a live fox to the hounds and genuine traditional hunting people were appalled by it.
And tbh if you are only interested in galloping and jumping and drinking why not just do a team chase, what do the hounds bring to the party in any form of drag hunting?
Thank you
Yes I think it was always done after a fox had been dug out. Mainly to give hounds a reward for their hard work, but also, as ycbm says, what else can they do?
Um, long pre ban I was present as a mounted teenage follower when a fox which had run to ground was dug out in front of hounds. As it happens, the fox bolted clean away, cheered quietly on by a number of the field (including me). So it did used to happen.
Yes you could always bolt the fox, but it should be given fair law.
Of course you can. I have attended many digs with him. The fox was shot while still in the earth as soon as you dug through to it.
It was shot then given to the hounds to break up.
Not in our hunt, maybe different hunts had different methods.
Well that’s pretty appalling!
No, of course not but it was standard decreed MFHA practice to shoot the fox before putting him to the hounds.
Break up
