A contentious and emotive topic. As a horseman myself, and one who as hunted in the past, I totally understand and appreciate the attraction of being able to ride in company across open country which is not normally accessible, tackling a variety of fences and other obstacles; the exhilaration is hard to beat. Horses seem to enjoy it, you can sense the excitement and anticipation in them, it's a unique opportunity for them to follow their instincts and emboldens them over fences which they might otherwise baulk at, to stay with the "herd" (field.) And in the process, they learn a lot too. But that's just the riding side. I always had certain reservations about running an animal to exhaustion so that it can be ripped to pieces, but tried to rationalise it by the fact that most hunts do not result in a kill, and that the kill itself is supposedly quick. But many followers still have limited knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the now famous footage of the huntsman of the North Herefordshire Hunt feeding a live fox cub to hounds in a compound, with the kennel maid looking on, apparently as part of the hounds' learning process to identify their quarry. The creature was taken from a storage container with a lid, using a catchpole, then held by the scruff of its neck to be thrown in. What followed was hidden behind closed doors, although the noise left little to the imagination, and the cub's remains were then removed and discarded into a bin. Apart from nauseous disgust at the spectacle itself, I was struck by the nonchalant, well rehearsed manner in which it was carried out, i.e. it looked unlikely to be a one-off but seemingly a routine practice for this kennels. It then occurred to me that if this was the case, then it would be logical to assume the practice is fairly widespread. As far as I know, nobody else has been caught red-handed in this act (the incident in question was captured by stealth) and the prosecution of the indviduals, who were given suspended sentences and a paltry fine with nothing to prevent them resuming such practices) were the only ones of their kind I could find records for. Incidentally, the judges' rationale for leniency was that a ban on working with animals would have left these people unemployed (they also ran or worked on a stud farm.) Fuck 'em I say, but there it is. I am now as sure as I can be that practices such as this are widespread and have been for a very long time, but have been carefully concealed from public view. My local hunt is now ostensibly a drag hunt, although there are plenty of reasons to suppose that the dividing line is deliberately vague, and the pack has been seen to be directed to coverts where no scent trail was laid. The loophole of hounds happening upon a fox unintentionally whilst casting for the scent trail i probably abused at every outing. What I saw on that video filled me with enough revulsion to hang up my hunting boots for good. The only way I can see hunting redeem itself in the eyes of the public is if they not only cooperate but proactively assist officials to accompany them and ensure that only drag trails are followed.
@Steven Eke Don't be ridiculous, most people in Ireland oppose it or have no interest in it, just like England. The level of education in Ireland is markedly superior to that in England. Coming from a country with such a high proportion of uncultured, illiterate chavs, your your statement sounds very hollow.
@Steven Eke It has been a while since I was in Dublin, but both ends of the social scale can be found in every city. How about London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and a host of others? Your preconceptions are well out of date: a study by the OECD published in October this year showed that 56% of 25 to 34 year olds in Ireland have received higher or further education, the average being 44%. That’s the highest score in Europe, and fourth in the world. Your bigoted stereotyping is an outdated anachronism that is nowadays consigned to the bitter fringes.
I respect hunters who operate with ethics and precision. I don't respect this type of hunting (traditional or not). 30 riders and 50 hounds against 1 fox. That is a mismatch only toffs would call fair.
going on the wheatland hunt with my new horse i cant wait i love watching the dogs work as a pack and the sense of family and community fuck the ban i say if the foxes are pests in a certain area but scented trails are perfectly fine if u dont like fox hunting dont put firecrackers and pins on the road as i have previously experienced
Actually , there's a much better sound; when one of these sadistic scumbags falls off and breaks his miserable arse. Fuck you and the bag you rode in on.
@@davidshields948 ah now dont be so hostile.thats not a nice thing to say.dont be a hater.i love the sound of the hounds,the only thing better is riding behind✌💚.
Blood sport. Just go without the dogs. Leave the wildlife alone. That's what we do in the USA. We have too much respect for wildlife. The trail is just marked and we follow the marks
Riding like that would be exhilarating, I'd love it. What a way to become a really good rider. I find hunting videos really relaxing to watch, and watching someone ride actually kicks off muscle memory, even when you're not the one riding. However, I can't go along with hunting a fox and ending its life like that. Why not just use scent - drag hunting? You still get to gallop across country and jump walls. The dogs still get excited.
Ive been a horse person all my life but i find hunting barbaric and cruel! What right has anybody got to chase a defenceless animal until it can hardly breathe then let dogs rip it apart?? If any hunts came near my land i would have them prosecuted for trespassing!! They call it a sport! But dont think they know the meaning of the word. A sport is where each side is equal. Nothing equal about being chased by a pack of hounds while a load of toffs are galloping behind just waiting for the poor fox to be ripped to death. Then theres cub hunting. Bloody barbarick!!
I knew this was Ireland even before hearing the Irish accent. Some of the young riders wore warm coats and not riding jackets, nothing wrong with that at all, not everybody has the money to afford the fancy gear. Some horse lovers have to keep a horse on a small pittance.
I'd love to be with you folks in Ireland after the fox (except that at my age and condition, I doubt I could sit a horse over rough country). Makes me wonder, though: when you cross the line up north, does foxhunting come to an abrupt halt because Norn Iron [sic] is British, so you're forced to drag hunt?
@@jo5707 if you don't like the video why are you watching it? Not everyone likes the same things, you may like football where as I don't. I think it's great to see the old traditions being kept alive. 👍👍👍
Wrong! This is Ireland, not britain. And as foxes are not native to Ireland, they have little protection and so can be, and are, brutally murdered for a sickos weird pleasure.
Very true in England almost every hunt group chase a human scent which will be the runner or a scent traced through roads and fields by quad so shame on the people sabotaging drag hunts and not stopping real ones where foxes are in danger
What a wonderful mother you are, educating your child to terrorise and murder defenseless beings. I bet you'd be the very first person to cry when the tables are turned on your precious bundle of joy.
@Josh Q What a ridiculous comeback. It was empty and weak. Odd that you use the words 'controlling' and 'unsupportive' when it comes to educating children to be better people. So you are admitting that you yourself also are 'controlling' and forcing your kids into your backward ways of thinking. And 'unsupportive'? Why would I 'support' my child when he/she is doing something wrong? I want to educate my children to be better people. Would I 'support' my child if she/he chooses to be a mass murderer? No. I'd still love them, yes, but not 'support' them.
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 You're never gonna convince anyone to join your side of an argument if you just insult them. If you want someone to listen to your argument lay out the hard facts and let them decide but you can't force someone to change their way of thinking by calling them "murderers". I've never even ridden a horse and I don't really know why I'm here but damn would it be refreshing if debates in TH-cam comments actually went past petty insults and opinions phrased as facts.
Yes, unfortunately they dig the poor fox out of it's den, throw it into a pack of hounds who chase it down to exhaustion, until it finally finds some safety......where it is once again dug out and thrown to the hounds to be brutally ripped apart alive. Those who say that this does not happen are only lying to you in order to keep you on their side. As a country boy, I can assure you that this 'sport' is a dispicale 'sport' for people with no brains and tiny penises.
Just because you say it's 'no.....it is a load of nonsense', it doesn't make your statement true. Of course you'll say that just to justify your vile barbaric lifestyle. I've seen it with my own two eyes. Hence the reason why I am so much against it and have very little to do with my own family. I am from a family of these dispicable blood-thristy people. I am ashamed to be from such vile stock.
Foxes need to be managed. Predators killing them is natural. It’s quick. And usually they outsmart the hounds. Also cubbing helps spread the fox population and prevent in breeding. Country foxes outlive the sickly urban ones. Survival of the fittest. I love the hounds. Keep up the country life and tradition.
In the UK it is....but not in Ireland. And as foxes were introduced to Ireland, so that the british ''gentry' could have a fun casual day of killing a defenseless animal, the fox, as a non-native species, has very little protection in Ireland. And no, they don't just chase it (not that that means it's not cruel either!!!), they hunt it down like savages in need of killing a defenseless creature. And because these 'people' have very small penises, and are too ugly to breed, they take their frustrations out on an animal......and the animal suffers dreadfully.
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy actually in the UK you can hunt with a pack of dogs following the scent but must kill via shotgun or bird of prey . it's illegal to kill with a pack of hounds of use terrier men .
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 you sound like a nutter, I don't hunt but I enjoy watching hunting videos and I think it's really good to see people enjoying themselves. If you don't like it and if it upsets you so much stay at home.
Jesus chriwt lads calm your shit the hounds dont kill the fox ive hunted for 2 seasons and the fox has never been killed half the time the fox gets away
Ironic that you say that 'the fox has never been killed' during the 2 years of your hunger for abuse, yet you go on to say 'half the time the fox gets away'. How ironic. 'Never been killed' and 'half the time the fox gets away'. Seems like a contradiction to me.
Fox hunting is cruel. No matter what any of these red coats say or how they try to paint it. Its barbaric and there is something seriously wrong with anyone that enjoys this kind of thing.
How do you think foxes die in the wild? I will tell you they get killed packs of coyotes or even wolves. It is going to happen to them that is the way of the wild is no different from when hounds do it and it is food for the hounds. Foxes on average will kill 700 animals in their life and guess how they kill their prey by biting them and killing them in seconds just like the hounds. Foxes also kill dogs, cats and newborn livestock.
@@CaptainNathan-h7r because they're animals. They hunt to survive. Humans do it for fun, and it's completely unnecessary. Don't even start with your "but foxes kill chickens" excuses; if you don't want your livestock to be killed, why don't you secure their enclosures? You can't compare a few wild animals following their instincts to humans, who know exactly what they're doing, making a huge pack of hounds chase down helpless foxes and brutally rip them apart, as part of a "sport". And I can guarantee there's no wolves or coyotes hunting them in Ireland.
A contentious and emotive topic. As a horseman myself, and one who as hunted in the past, I totally understand and appreciate the attraction of being able to ride in company across open country which is not normally accessible, tackling a variety of fences and other obstacles; the exhilaration is hard to beat. Horses seem to enjoy it, you can sense the excitement and anticipation in them, it's a unique opportunity for them to follow their instincts and emboldens them over fences which they might otherwise baulk at, to stay with the "herd" (field.) And in the process, they learn a lot too. But that's just the riding side. I always had certain reservations about running an animal to exhaustion so that it can be ripped to pieces, but tried to rationalise it by the fact that most hunts do not result in a kill, and that the kill itself is supposedly quick. But many followers still have limited knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the now famous footage of the huntsman of the North Herefordshire Hunt feeding a live fox cub to hounds in a compound, with the kennel maid looking on, apparently as part of the hounds' learning process to identify their quarry. The creature was taken from a storage container with a lid, using a catchpole, then held by the scruff of its neck to be thrown in. What followed was hidden behind closed doors, although the noise left little to the imagination, and the cub's remains were then removed and discarded into a bin. Apart from nauseous disgust at the spectacle itself, I was struck by the nonchalant, well rehearsed manner in which it was carried out, i.e. it looked unlikely to be a one-off but seemingly a routine practice for this kennels. It then occurred to me that if this was the case, then it would be logical to assume the practice is fairly widespread. As far as I know, nobody else has been caught red-handed in this act (the incident in question was captured by stealth) and the prosecution of the indviduals, who were given suspended sentences and a paltry fine with nothing to prevent them resuming such practices) were the only ones of their kind I could find records for. Incidentally, the judges' rationale for leniency was that a ban on working with animals would have left these people unemployed (they also ran or worked on a stud farm.) Fuck 'em I say, but there it is. I am now as sure as I can be that practices such as this are widespread and have been for a very long time, but have been carefully concealed from public view. My local hunt is now ostensibly a drag hunt, although there are plenty of reasons to suppose that the dividing line is deliberately vague, and the pack has been seen to be directed to coverts where no scent trail was laid. The loophole of hounds happening upon a fox unintentionally whilst casting for the scent trail i probably abused at every outing. What I saw on that video filled me with enough revulsion to hang up my hunting boots for good. The only way I can see hunting redeem itself in the eyes of the public is if they not only cooperate but proactively assist officials to accompany them and ensure that only drag trails are followed.
@Steven Eke Don't be ridiculous, most people in Ireland oppose it or have no interest in it, just like England. The level of education in Ireland is markedly superior to that in England. Coming from a country with such a high proportion of uncultured, illiterate chavs, your your statement sounds very hollow.
@Steven Eke It has been a while since I was in Dublin, but both ends of the social scale can be found in every city. How about London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and a host of others? Your preconceptions are well out of date: a study by the OECD published in October this year showed that 56% of 25 to 34 year olds in Ireland have received higher or further education, the average being 44%. That’s the highest score in Europe, and fourth in the world. Your bigoted stereotyping is an outdated anachronism that is nowadays consigned to the bitter fringes.
I respect hunters who operate with ethics and precision. I don't respect this type of hunting (traditional or not). 30 riders and 50 hounds against 1 fox. That is a mismatch only toffs would call fair.
That's too cruel for me. I mean - seriously. We're in the 21st now, having destroyed an awful lot of wildlife across the globe, time to stop.
@@justinneill5003 That post must have been removed, but Ireland has the highest # of Nobel prizes for literature in the world
going on the wheatland hunt with my new horse i cant wait i love watching the dogs work as a pack and the sense of family and community fuck the ban i say if the foxes are pests in a certain area but scented trails are perfectly fine if u dont like fox hunting dont put firecrackers and pins on the road as i have previously experienced
Not called dogs. Proper word, hounds.
@@equine2020indeed , you r a proper lady 🙂
Hounds. Is the correct terminology.
@@equine2020 indeed it is , correct 😉👍
Great video.i hunted with Eddie Crotty years ago, a fine huntsman.lovely hounds and horses.
Is that the man talking on the horse?
I'm English but my family are from Clare Ireland.
Great video
Loved the dappled grey at the bar at the beginning of this vid. It reminded me of my Bonnie Lass.
great to see it. what a fab family day out and a great past time for all involved and especially your riders. keep them coming
What a sad patethic person you are.
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy grow up
Beautiful, no better sound than wen the hounds crac up
Here here
Actually , there's a much better sound; when one of these sadistic scumbags falls off and breaks his miserable arse.
Fuck you and the bag you rode in on.
@@davidshields948 ah now dont be so hostile.thats not a nice thing to say.dont be a hater.i love the sound of the hounds,the only thing better is riding behind✌💚.
Love the braying of the hounds and the huntsman horn. You feel the excitement of your horse beneath you.
Blood sport. Just go without the dogs. Leave the wildlife alone. That's what we do in the USA. We have too much respect for wildlife. The trail is just marked and we follow the marks
Riding like that would be exhilarating, I'd love it. What a way to become a really good rider. I find hunting videos really relaxing to watch, and watching someone ride actually kicks off muscle memory, even when you're not the one riding.
However, I can't go along with hunting a fox and ending its life like that. Why not just use scent - drag hunting? You still get to gallop across country and jump walls. The dogs still get excited.
No comment ,
Nice hunt!!!
Ive been a horse person all my life but i find hunting barbaric and cruel! What right has anybody got to chase a defenceless animal until it can hardly breathe then let dogs rip it apart?? If any hunts came near my land i would have them prosecuted for trespassing!! They call it a sport! But dont think they know the meaning of the word. A sport is where each side is equal. Nothing equal about being chased by a pack of hounds while a load of toffs are galloping behind just waiting for the poor fox to be ripped to death. Then theres cub hunting. Bloody barbarick!!
Is that Jack you're riding, the 3 year old you were training?
@@superstarshaker7402 rudeness is your game? I care Jack is a star hunter!
I knew this was Ireland even before hearing the Irish accent. Some of the young riders wore warm coats and not riding jackets, nothing wrong with that at all, not everybody has the money to afford the fancy gear. Some horse lovers have to keep a horse on a small pittance.
What breed is the dark bay?
Lovely video. Well done
I'd love to be with you folks in Ireland after the fox (except that at my age and condition, I doubt I could sit a horse over rough country). Makes me wonder, though: when you cross the line up north, does foxhunting come to an abrupt halt because Norn Iron [sic] is British, so you're forced to drag hunt?
Fox hunting is only illegal in england and wales
Great video, please film more hunts for 2019 /2020 👍
er no lets not thanks
@@jo5707 if you don't like the video why are you watching it? Not everyone likes the same things, you may like football where as I don't. I think it's great to see the old traditions being kept alive. 👍👍👍
Der arme Fuchs 🦊😪
For everyone asking, no we do not kill the foxes! We go for the chase it's illegal to kill
Not in ireland it isnt
Wrong! This is Ireland, not britain. And as foxes are not native to Ireland, they have little protection and so can be, and are, brutally murdered for a sickos weird pleasure.
Very true in England almost every hunt group chase a human scent which will be the runner or a scent traced through roads and fields by quad so shame on the people sabotaging drag hunts and not stopping real ones where foxes are in danger
I wish I was as brace as you. I have a 5 yr old pony and I'm 14 and she's to strong for me at cross country
What a wonderful mother you are, educating your child to terrorise and murder defenseless beings. I bet you'd be the very first person to cry when the tables are turned on your precious bundle of joy.
@Josh Q What a ridiculous comeback. It was empty and weak. Odd that you use the words 'controlling' and 'unsupportive' when it comes to educating children to be better people. So you are admitting that you yourself also are 'controlling' and forcing your kids into your backward ways of thinking. And 'unsupportive'? Why would I 'support' my child when he/she is doing something wrong? I want to educate my children to be better people. Would I 'support' my child if she/he chooses to be a mass murderer? No. I'd still love them, yes, but not 'support' them.
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 You're never gonna convince anyone to join your side of an argument if you just insult them. If you want someone to listen to your argument lay out the hard facts and let them decide but you can't force someone to change their way of thinking by calling them "murderers". I've never even ridden a horse and I don't really know why I'm here but damn would it be refreshing if debates in TH-cam comments actually went past petty insults and opinions phrased as facts.
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 you're gay aren't you.
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 you must be gay,troll.
I hope that they don't actually kill the fox.That's very cruel,just saying.
i think they just chase it
Yes, unfortunately they dig the poor fox out of it's den, throw it into a pack of hounds who chase it down to exhaustion, until it finally finds some safety......where it is once again dug out and thrown to the hounds to be brutally ripped apart alive. Those who say that this does not happen are only lying to you in order to keep you on their side. As a country boy, I can assure you that this 'sport' is a dispicale 'sport' for people with no brains and tiny penises.
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy no they don't throw them into the pack to ripped apart it is a load of nonsense
Just because you say it's 'no.....it is a load of nonsense', it doesn't make your statement true. Of course you'll say that just to justify your vile barbaric lifestyle. I've seen it with my own two eyes. Hence the reason why I am so much against it and have very little to do with my own family. I am from a family of these dispicable blood-thristy people. I am ashamed to be from such vile stock.
@O R Bloody fuckings tourists
My god. Pls stay connected always
Foxes need to be managed.
Predators killing them is natural.
It’s quick.
And usually they outsmart the hounds.
Also cubbing helps spread the fox population and prevent in breeding.
Country foxes outlive the sickly urban ones.
Survival of the fittest.
I love the hounds.
Keep up the country life and tradition.
isent hunting actual foxes ilegal
they just chase it
Fuck the ban
In the UK it is....but not in Ireland. And as foxes were introduced to Ireland, so that the british ''gentry' could have a fun casual day of killing a defenseless animal, the fox, as a non-native species, has very little protection in Ireland. And no, they don't just chase it (not that that means it's not cruel either!!!), they hunt it down like savages in need of killing a defenseless creature. And because these 'people' have very small penises, and are too ugly to breed, they take their frustrations out on an animal......and the animal suffers dreadfully.
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy actually in the UK you can hunt with a pack of dogs following the scent but must kill via shotgun or bird of prey . it's illegal to kill with a pack of hounds of use terrier men .
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 you sound like a nutter, I don't hunt but I enjoy watching hunting videos and I think it's really good to see people enjoying themselves. If you don't like it and if it upsets you so much stay at home.
WHY DO PEOPLE THINK HOUNDS ARE DOGS THERE HOUNDS BOY NOT DOGS 😂😂
idiot
That's the only wrong thing you can point out in this vile blood 'sport'? You need to recheck your morals.
"A hound is a type of hunting dog used by hunters to track or chase prey."
Oh of course they not dogs! Indeed they are cats! You dumb moronic pig! Of course they are fucking dogs!
And all this for one little fox?
All you who turn our to see the hunt are equally as barbaric
Exactly
honestly couldn't care less
It’s a tradition and a part of rural community
You're a gay troll.
Poor fox!
Jesus chriwt lads calm your shit the hounds dont kill the fox ive hunted for 2 seasons and the fox has never been killed half the time the fox gets away
Ironic that you say that 'the fox has never been killed' during the 2 years of your hunger for abuse, yet you go on to say 'half the time the fox gets away'. How ironic. 'Never been killed' and 'half the time the fox gets away'. Seems like a contradiction to me.
@@petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 Good call out.
Fox hunting is cruel. No matter what any of these red coats say or how they try to paint it. Its barbaric and there is something seriously wrong with anyone that enjoys this kind of thing.
How do you think foxes die in the wild? I will tell you they get killed packs of coyotes or even wolves. It is going to happen to them that is the way of the wild is no different from when hounds do it and it is food for the hounds. Foxes on average will kill 700 animals in their life and guess how they kill their prey by biting them and killing them in seconds just like the hounds. Foxes also kill dogs, cats and newborn livestock.
@@CaptainNathan-h7r because they're animals. They hunt to survive. Humans do it for fun, and it's completely unnecessary. Don't even start with your "but foxes kill chickens" excuses; if you don't want your livestock to be killed, why don't you secure their enclosures? You can't compare a few wild animals following their instincts to humans, who know exactly what they're doing, making a huge pack of hounds chase down helpless foxes and brutally rip them apart, as part of a "sport". And I can guarantee there's no wolves or coyotes hunting them in Ireland.
@@dancetothebaileybeat2809 gay troll.
Wtf