We found the hunt at the bottom of the Dingles (where they often have their opening meet and near where their old terrierman, Roger, was filmed blocking a badger sett last year). This weekend we stopped them on a fox at the old quarries.

Now then… in order to stop hounds when they are hunting a fox, you have to “rate” them i.e. tell them off. Cracking a whip is their “off switch”. So despite the honorary secretary of the hunt’s protestations no hound was hit in the process of stopping the pack. A pack of hounds can be stopped despite the lead hounds having passed. By stopping the rest of the pack the lead hounds can often come back, or the hunt staff gather them up and abandon the chase.

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