Joining up with the usual bunch from South Wales, Southampton & Bath, we set off to find today’s hunt of choice, the Royal Agricultural College Beagles. Their meet was at Morgan’s Tynings, between Tetbury & Cirencester, and they left with us in tow just after 11.
The last time we visited this hunt (a little over a year ago) we were treated to some loutish behaviour from drunk supporters and students of the Royal Agricultural University, which the hare hunt is attached to. Th…ey smashed the window of a sab land rover and threw a dead rabbit at us, which was subsequently picked up by the press, prompting the University to launch an investigation.
We saw signs that similar could happen again today, with a few clearly drunk supporters turning up and some who arrived driving at sabs in their vehicles early on, but nothing beyond that as we were determined to keep on the hunt despite these attempts at intimidation, oh and the poor weather!
We stuck close to the hunt and hounds on foot as they walked around and around country lanes for close to 3 hours, fine by us as they weren’t in the fields chasing and killing wildlife! They were followed until they were putting the beagles back in the hound van, leaving the area around 3pm. Job done!