Trail hunting to be banned.

Drag and blood hound packs have arguably not done enough to distance themselves from fox trail hunting.

Even on this forum many of us horsey types aren’t really clear about the differences between the three versions.

Drag and bloodhound packs will be very worried too, for sure, particularly the drag packs.
 
ihatework said:
Trail hunting are the foxhound packs who are mostly still foxhunting behind a smokescreen.

Drag/bloods have never hunted fox, different hound breed and they hunt a genuine trail
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Just to elaborate on ihateworks post.

Trail hunting use fox scent, hence the smokescreen, because the hounds can’t distinguish the laid trail from other fox scents in their environment.

Drag hunting use aniseed as a scent, and Bloods scent a human runner - so neither these deviant from the trail they are following.
 
lizziebell said:
Just to elaborate on ihateworks post.

Trail hunting use fox scent, hence the smokescreen, because the hounds can’t distinguish the laid trail from other fox scents in their environment.

Drag hunting use aniseed as a scent, and Bloods scent a human runner - so neither these deviant from the trail they are following.
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Oh my god THANK YOU. This is the first explanation I've read that makes sense.

As someone who doesn't live over there, all the explanations read like this:

"Trail hunts are where you drag a scent across the ground to lay a TRAIL.

Drag hunts are where you DRAG a scent across the ground to lay a trail.

OBVIOUSLY the first one is secretly illegal fox hunting and the second one is abiding by the rules."
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I could not figure out why everyone was so adamant that the ones called trail hunts resulted in hunting real fox, and the ones called drag hunts didn't.

(The bloodhounds made sense because I THINK they are chasing an actual live human?)
 
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I don't think it will stop there. I had a recent chat with a sab and it started with foxes but then led on to poor hounds and finally poor children who never have a choice about joining. So let's hope sabs don't go after drag hunts next but then arguably as long as no fox is hunted or harmed then it shouldn't really be an issue anymore.

Sadly the trail hunts chasing foxes have ruined it for the rest.
 
Most fox hunts have taken the p.... had they stuck to the rules and trail hunted properly they would not be where they are now. The sheer pig headed arrogant attitude of many who thought they could just continue as pre ban has got them to this point.
 
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