Anyone who thinks that just because it’s illegal to hunt foxes with hounds in the UK means that it doesn’t happen, is horribly naive. It’s a tradition (yes, a brutal one) and for all of the upper to upper-middle class people who hunt and have hunted for generations, one change of the law by that labour idiot Blair will not change a thing. Everyone that I know who hunts still does. Nothing has changed after the ban. People do NOT get arrested. If they are caught killing a fox, they say it was caught unintentionally during a dummy scent chase. The only difference is that people do not discuss it as openly. But it still goes on as though the ban never happened, the scent drags and bird of prey hunts are a tiny minority, and a cover.

why would anyone post this picture? unless there’s something i’m missing, one of these dogs is about to be seriously hurt. pretty upsetting and disappointing, cuteoverload:(

Starling is incorrect. You can hunt just about anything with dogs here in Wisconsin. You can hunt deer with dogs in many southern states.

It never had luster; LOL has a *flavr*.

Arguing the proper treatment of the term LOL might fairly be called “farce” btw, and to this I say YAY. YAY, I say! http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/yay_pic.jpg

lol loses some of its luster when ya wikipedia it, kinda ‘nerdsome’.

Dog definitely not on barbed wire.

Dog on barbed wire NOT CUTE and definitely NOT COOL. >:(

I’ve had this photo on my kitchen wall for a year or so now. Its taken near Keswick, Cumbria, UK in 2003 and is houndtrailing – there was no fox involved, rest assured.

Thanks, tblue! I was going to say it, but then I was just too tired (in advance) of all the likely nah-ahs.

The preposition thing is a myth; true grammarians and advanced word nerds know the preposition is just fine bringing up the rear.

P.S. Richard Lederer, mentioned in one of the articles, used to host A Way with Words, which is a locally produced program. He and Charles Harrington Elster (I liked them better than the current hosts, but what are you going to do?).

“A Response to Certain Pompous and Impatient Readers Who Click the ‘Post’ Button More Than Once”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL