Countryside Alliance @CAupdates Chief Executive also fish, ducks, cricket, wife (singular), children (multiple) tim-bonner(at)https://t.co/sb7p8qUJUa
Jan 2, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
OK, here we go. First the history of foxhunting with dogs, different to deer & hare hunting which are much older activities in a formal sense. The fox has always been in conflict with man and from early times people used dogs to control them above & below ground 1/
Fox and pest control would have been a specialist role in village life through the Middle Ages & specialist types of hound & terrier were developed through selective breeding. Hunting foxes also presumably became a community activity to protect livestock 2/
