Interesting article. I have two bits to offer. Firstly, when I was young, my dad used to judge fox hunting. The trials he judged were almost never to the "dea

Interesting article. I have two bits to offer. Firstly, when I was young, my dad used to judge fox hunting. The trials he judged were almost never to the "death" though. He once told me that he only saw a hound actually catch a fox once when the fox ran though a culvert while the hound ran over it and got to the end first. There is a clear opportunity to separate the hunt from the kill. The second is that I now live on a rather large piece of property. Some fields and some woodland. We allow a local group of "fox hunters" use our property as part of their hunt. While they show up with a dozen horses and twice as many hounds on a semi-regular basis, they don't actually hunt or chase fox. Prior to the hunt the hound master comes to our property and uses a scent rag of some kind to scent a trail for the hounds to follow. In fact, there is a fox den within 50m of my home office and the hounds show no interest in the den. Fox tend to raise their kits "closer" to people as coyotes (the main local threat to fox) are reluctant to come as close to people as fox are. Not great news for my chickens as we loose one or two a month to the fox, but that is the price I pay for living where I do. The gist of it is this. It is unfortunate that the various players can't typically reach a compromise. There seems to be ample opportunity to do so. I live in a world where the "fox" hunting tradition thrives and yet no fox are actually chased let alone killed.