Meet Debit and Dervish. These exuberant, affectionate hound puppies are five months old and live with their puppy walker, Carolyn, in an orchard in Hampshire.
The pups arrived at 8 weeks old and will spend most of their first year with her, before they return to a local trail hunting pack, which numbers around 40 couple (80) hounds.
Carolyn has overseen the breeding of her local pack for forty years and has personally puppy walked over 100 hounds. Although their destiny is pack life, hunting trails for the local hunt, this socialisation period is a vital building block of the hounds’ development. She will introduce them to a variety of people, children, horses, farm animals, cars and farm machinery such as tractors.
Carolyn explains some of the conventions of hound ownership and gives an overview of how the UK’s 300 plus hunting packs originated, how hunts cooperate on breeding and why hounds are always given, never sold.
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