" "The boss is being a bit slow digging this fox out. Looks like I'll have to do it myself."

"He's in here somewhere, if only that bloody Jack Russell would get out of the road!"

"Nearly there now........."

My 25" Staghound bitch trying her paw at denning. After over 20' of shovelling, we'd run into a solid wall of roots and I was trying to find another way in when Tessa got too excited to wait. Fox was probably only 2 feet from her nose at the time the last pic was taken. It was not a big hole, so it surprised me how well she dug in.

Rather to my surprise, my JRT had killed it. First time she's done this , solo, on a fully grown fox. She's a bit burred-up and it hurt her when the adrenaline wore off, but her tail is up and there's nothing that won't heal. Serve her right for refusing to come out when called. She's not normally so "hard".