Second Day Cubbing - August 11th, 2010

Day Two of Cubbing

Meet: Herr's Stone Lane

Temps: in the high 70's

Couples: 15 1/2(JCP Kennels)

Staff:
MFH- James Paxson, Whips - Greg Paxson, Fred VonC, Priscilla Godsoe Hound Trucks - Karen and Gary Kennedy, and Rob Meisner

Start: 6:30a.m
End: 8:15a.m

Great morning even though it was rather warm. Hounds ran and worked well together. Hunted toward Peirsons Woods in the direction of the Park Rd, picked up (found the line/scent of a fox) a fox that went back towards the Church and Cemetery towards Freemont Rd.

Fox went to ground (back to his hole). Greg got off his horse and went into the woods to scout out the hole and blew the fox under (blowing under: fox has 'out foxed' the hounds which is a good thing! A call is made on the horn known as 'blowing under' letting the hounds know that the chase is over and they did their best. No harm is done to any animal. Remember OUR fox 'hunting' is the training of foxhounds to pick up a scent and follow it, not for kill!). PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE - www.rhfpa.com - WHAT IS FOX HUNTING? to understand a bit more about what we do.

After our first run Greg and Jimmy picked up the hounds and took them to the spring house on Piersons Side to cool off and get a drink. Then headed back toward the Park Road and hunted the bank towards Ed's pond. Again they picked up (found the line/scent of a fox) another fox, which Fred viewed headed in the direction of the power lines and the woods. It was a shorter run than the first but none the less gave everyone a good schooling over a few coops (jumps built into fence that separate the fields making it easy to navigate through pastures) to catch up to the hounds when they crossed the cow pasture. This fox also went to ground giving the 5 new entry ('I' Puppies) a good smell of fox at the hole(This helps the new entry which at this time is the 'I' Puppies, to understand that the scent of the fox is what we are out there looking for)! MFH JCP blew this fox to ground.

We picked up the hounds and headed down to the pond to give the hounds a drink and a swim and loaded up!

Karen and Gary brought coffee, water, juice and donuts and fresh fruit to get us re hydrated and ready to head home. Many THANKS!

Next Meet FRIDAY MORNING 6:30a.m AT RED PUMP - HOLY VIEW SIDE


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