What a day! We visited The Cotswold Vale Farmers Hunt this morning and upon finding them and clearly taking them by surprise we stuck to them and ended up walking them home. Visibility was poor and we hear they had a dismal time before we showed up to usher them back to box up.
Whilst we were with the CVFH we also had sabs watching the prestigious Berkeley Hunt who are clearly spooked by having sab attention. They have not hunted on a Saturday morning all season and we’ve been there to make sure of that. Today though we stayed in the area and trusting a hunch found them leaving the kennels late afternoon to go hunting.
The hunt were small in numbers (last year they had over 50 riders for cub hunting, this season around 10). They didn’t move very far and we had them in our sights the entire time. We thought we’d make our presence known by taking the hounds off the huntsman who had terrible control of the pack.
The dejected faces of the riders at the end of the day was enough for us. No kills. Happy sabs.