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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small kitchen, lots of guest rooms, old American cars with some dirt on them. Persian rugs obtained by an older relative whist traveling in Iraq or Yemen in the early 1900s. Vacations include things like helicopter trips to hunt moose or elk, or expeditions on camel with Bedouins. Art includes antiquities, framed handwritten poems signed by Maya Angelou, and mounted heads of animals killed while hunting.[/quote]

Hunting is not classy.  At all.  [/quote]

Foxhunting is! And killing the fox isn't the goal.  But shining up my pony and tack, putting on my pink and raising a stirrup cup is the best.  Truly nothing more glorious that riding out at dawn before the world is truly awake and the dew is still moistly holding the foxes scent.  The sights and sounds of the hounds working the scent.  The entire experience is amazing.  And at the end, we make the horses comfortable and tuck in for a fabulous hunt brunch.  Unparalleled.[/quote]

So you still kill the fox?  [/quote]

No.  Many hunts drag a scent beforehand so the hounds still have to find it but there isn't actually a fox around.   Other Hunts will go out and let the hounds look around for scent and then follow the scent.  Sometimes the scent is recent and there is the actual "tally ho" of seeing the fox.  More often, the fox passed through some time ago and the hounds are chasing an old scent.   Some mornings, the hounds never find a scent.  Additionally, healthy foxes are smarter and faster than hounds.  And Foxhunting season is the time when there aren't kits so vixens and kits are safe.  It can happen but the majority of people who participate (me included) have never experienced the hounds actually capturing a fox.  Now, typically a member carries a firearm but the truth is that is just in case there is the need to put down a very injured horse.  Trust me when I say, more people are injured each year foxhunting than foxes.  Many clubs have intentionally changed the name of the sport to foxchasing or riding to hounds because Foxhunting makes it sound much worse than it is.  [/quote]

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