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Hound control?
David Hunter must have very little regard for his pets' welfare if he is happy to allow them to play near hunt hounds (letters, January 22).
This season there have already been numerous incidents of pets being attacked, and hunting accidents, where control is lost and a fox is chased and killed.
Earlier this month the Easton Harriers hunt made news when their hounds savaged a couple’s nine-year-old pet cat.
The standard excuse for these incidents is that the hounds’ instinct is to chase and kill, and that must be accepted. Conversely, when an issue such as the hounds needing to be on leads on the roads is raised, they become a highly trained and disciplined unit.
Are they under control, or aren’t they? Hunts can’t have it both ways.
Rachel Jay
Godalming
Surrey
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