*** fox killed, badger sett blocked ***

As sabs walked towards the hunt on the old railway track near Aylworth a young and clearly terrified fox ran past with hounds clearly very close behind.

The hounds were rated with voice calls and whips stopping them as the whipper in allowed them to hunt on. Huntsman Lloyd then gathered the pack and cast them on exactly where the cub had run. they picked up the line of his scent and within a few minutes a hunt follower was holloaing and the hounds were in full cry to where they killed. A man was seen carrying the body up the opposite hill.

A badger sett in the field where this fox was hunted from was found to be freshly blocked. This is Gloucestershire badger cull zone 9 in the fifth year of culling.