“throughout the winter, hunts up and down the country will be sticking two fingers up at the law”

No horse to look after, a multi-generational community, great exercise and it costs peanuts. Tessa Waugh extols the joy of hunting with the “jelly dogs”

RED FOX

A well-educated hunter is a delight to ride – but it’s not something that happens by magic, explains Andrew Sallis

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

OPINION

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