If draghunting is so attractive to hunt followers, or capable of expansion, why aren’t more quarry hunters doing it already?
A. It is estimated 1,500 mounted people follow draghounds regularly at present in 30 packs. There are 40,000 regular mounted followers. (Source: BETA survey 1997.) Draghunting has been around for 150 years, and if it were a viable substitute for quarry hunting, more crossovers would surely have taken place already? 208,100 people (mounted and unmounted) participate in quarry hunting. (Source: Cobham Resource Consultants 1997.) Opponents of hunting constantly claim that there is a large element of the horse owning population who dislike quarry hunting and are waiting for the opportunity to go out draghunting. Why are they not doing so already when packs of draghounds exist across most of the UK which is suitable for that activity? If they are that keen and that competent surely they wouldn’t have waited till now to take it up? Q. Hunters frequently use the argument that a large number of hounds would need to be put down if hunting was banned. However hunters don’t care about hounds anyw
