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"Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby
      #385636 - 06/07/24 07:49 PM

Wallaby roadkill is used for the drag scent.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x91lz74

Tasmania's Northern Hunt Club uses wallaby roadkill for the drag scent for the hunt hounds to follow.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-06/horse-and-hound-hunt-club-gives-up-foxes-for/104064254

VIDEO: Horse and hound hunt club swaps traditional foxes for roadkill
Laurissa Smith

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A long-held English tradition is being kept alive by a dedicated group of mostly female horse riders on Tasmanian farmland.


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Re: "Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby [Re: NitroX]
      #385637 - 06/07/24 08:26 PM

But what's the problem with using live foxes as the scent animals, as in Australia foxes are feral and serious pests anyway?

I reckon there might be lots of other wallabies.

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Re: "Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby [Re: NitroX]
      #385638 - 06/07/24 10:42 PM

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But what's the problem with using live foxes as the scent animals, as in Australia foxes are feral and serious pests anyway?

I reckon there might be lots of other wallabies.



Uff!

I looked at this thread in complete wonder as to how some enterprising Down Underer trained a wallaby to catch foxes!

Your question above is a good one...I wonder if the answer involves the seeming global or 1st world elevation to god status of the predator hence concern that if they use foxes they'll come under the attack of enviros??

Notice...how the obsession w/ protecting predators is not limited to those possessing 2 legs...

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Re: "Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby [Re: 9.3x57]
      #385639 - 06/07/24 11:46 PM

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I looked at this thread in complete wonder as to how some enterprising Down Underer trained a wallaby to catch foxes!




That was my thought as well. Was hoping for a video showing it in action.

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Re: "Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby [Re: LTK]
      #385641 - 07/07/24 01:57 AM

The videos say it all.

I've been reminded there aren't any actual wild foxes in Tasmania.



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Re: "Fox hunting" in Tasmania using a wallaby [Re: NitroX]
      #385657 - 07/07/24 04:11 PM

Good to see the Northern Hunt Club of Tasmania going strong. The Horse and Hound hunting tradition, in the past for fox and stag, in some more exotic places, jackal and boar, a lance added. Often banned in the Nanny Karen interfering modern bureaucratic states, it's good to see it still continuing. Of course the ecoKarens want it completely banned, as it is also "cruel to the horses" for some reason. In their irrational minds.

They do depend a lot on the goodwill of landowners, jumping fences or using gates riding across private property boundaries. Increasingly hard to get permission, advance permission, for anything, from the "self entitemet" generation of land owners. The community goodwill attitude of older generations is evaporating.

Having just visited horse enthusiast Argentina, I wonder if "English" style fox and hound hunting is practised there? The Polo set may well conduct horse and hound hunts. And I'm sure wealthier Anglophones would in the La Pampass provinces.

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