In the October issue was an article I had written about how an old dog caught a fox and that it was only because he was too old and too slow that I managed to witness most of the hunt. In the past this dog has been a demon fox slayer but sometimes the only…
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Time
Funny ain’t it, how quick times passes by, before you know it you look back on the last ten years and wonder where it’s just vanished to. As I write this I’ve got a 1950’s music compilation playing on YouTube and the old one-eyed terrier bitch sat snoring by my side as only an ancient…
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Summer Foxing (with camera only)
I often enjoy evening walks in the spring and summer armed with just the camera or binoculars, observing wildlife but in particular foxes. You can learn a great deal about the behaviour of an animal by simply watching it. It’s something all good hunters should do, as if you don’t how do you hope to…
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Hound to Ground
With the new season just a few weeks away, perhaps I had better tie up the end of the last one. I don’t know why, but many of us expected to be very busy on killing calls when the official season had ended. We were right, there were plenty of such calls and they kept…
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Pregnant
At the start of my mooch Poppy, the Teckel with the wondrous nose, started to snuffle along the burn. Every so often she would alter her course and go off at a right angle but never into the burn, so I assumed that whatever she was tracking was not a mink. It was unlikely to…
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