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tions appear very strong. Some huntsmen go so far as to say this season has been one of the best they remember.
For hunt clubs the fox provides the excitement of the chase, but few foxes are ever killed during these hunts.
“We'd rather protect the fox than kill it,” says Mr. Poe. “Killing is not our game. The more you take care of the fox, the more foxes you have. We even put food out for our foxes. We don’t kill many, only about two or three a year.”
Many of the foxes that are killed by hounds are inferior animals weakened by disease or injury. Most healthy foxes are quite capable of fending for themselves against foxhounds.
“You don’t really catch a red fox,” says Mr. Atkins. “If it knows what it’s doing there’s no hound ’round here that can catch one. The only way you catch one is if it makes a mistake, or if it’s turned around by a car or something. ”
Sometimes it even seems like the fox enjoys the thrill and dangers of being chased by a pack of hounds.
“Foxes love to run,” says Warrenton’s Mr. Power. “I’ve seen a fox being chased by the hounds run by its den two or three times when it could easily go in.”
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