I love to watch the program Dogs with jobs on the National Geographic channel. Today, they showed a man in England who owns 42(!) bloodhounds. He doesn't use them for fox-hunting. Oh no! He uses them for DRAG HUNTING! That's not his website, I cannot remember his name, BUT the dogs with the jobs, in this instance, hunt a jogger, that's right a HUMAN jogger; in fact it was the "lord's" own brother, who seemed ecstatic at having been chased all over hill and dale, for several hours, through mud and muck, rain and cold, by a pack of braying hounds. Of course, to them he was the fellah with the biscuits and they HAD to catch up to him for their treats!

Now, I'd never heard of this before and I thought it a great, if kind of Orwellian, solution to what I consider a horrid practice, i.e. fox-hunting, but in looking over sites I find it has a long tradition AND is totally apart from the more "trad" hunting.

Pretty interesting!

kat