“I would suggest that we all get together at the next hunt and block them in at each end. After all, the police will not move us on will they?”

“Who cares? It is bad law, and therefore will always have a coach and horses (or foxhounds) driven through it, and rightly so.
You bleeding heart liberal elites have had your way, and you will now have to put up with it, because it is unenforceable. You know, the police know it, the courts know it, and so do the people who spent vast numbers of parliamentary hours and money on getting it enacted. Bad law, like bad money, will eventually be rooted out, just like the fox.”

“If the dogs are on the public highway, this is illegal and I cannot understand why the police ignore this unlawful activity.”

“Some time ago my son and I watched a pack of hounds entering a wood below us. They were unattended, as the huntsmen were all out of site on a road several hundred yards away.

One of the first hounds to enter the wood started making a filthy racket which seemed to attract the others. Soon we saw a fox running through the wood pursued by several hounds who were sniffing the ground as they went - I was under the impression that they could not actually see the fox from where they were.

The fox emerged from the wood and ran away over the hill top and out of our sight, with the hounds emerging a little way behind, all sniffing around and following the fox's trail.

After a short while we heard the hunstman's horn from somewhere over the hill and the remaining hounds all trailed off in the same direction as the others. A few minutes later we were gratified to see the fox running back along the hedgerow and disappearing through it, in a direction away from the wood.

The wood is owned by people who are mainly resident elsewhere. I have no idea whether they were in residence at the time or whether they had given permission for the hounds to enter their wood.

Was this activity illegal?”