So true. I couldn't have said it any better. I will say though it seems like people are really getting hungry for the old ways.

J.L. Herington I agree that people yearn for the old ways but as much as we wish I think we all know we won’t ever see them again.

True enough you can’t see quality programmes like this on tele anymore, but minkhounds packs are still running- so you can get out for a day with them!

Like emmerdale country life with no animals and no reference to the countryside. Wasn't once apon time.

All this country life living and hunting and you all probably live in council estates on the dole . Anyone who thinks killing any animal needs to seek mental health treatment .

Amen

Loved watching these when I was a young lad. When I heard he'd died it wasn't his football videos I looked for it was Jack's Game. RIP big man.

Brian Woodward same here but sadly the way the worlds turning the people would be disgusted if they gave him his well earned hunting tribute

We have meat eaters on Netflix we have hundred of different hunting channels on KZfaq I think we will be fine. you old people just like complaining things change ...

I agree. The fact these things are not on mainsteam TV these days says that we are no longer one nation with diverse interests who accept each other's pass times and views. It says we are relegated from being part of mainstream Britain to being an unpopular subculture who talk in an echo chamber occasionally visted by haters.

Why the whips?

@@firripsz the dogs are scared of the noise they have whipper ins to stop the dogs from running amok

@@mallenkennelsuk5854 No the crack of the whip is s ound that carries. There is no fear it like the sound of the horn, the hounds know to go to it.

Do you really need to write "lol"?

Its great seeing terriers work .

@@malbig2344 lack of schooling .

Weirdly enough the otter population exploded after mink hunting was banned!!!

@@davedavids57 Otters were reintroduced, it never saved the water voles that have been decimated by mink, the greatest crime committed to British wildlife was the anti's releasing mink.

@@hetrodoxly1203 I studied water voles at university weirdly enough. American mink first established wild populations after escaping captivity and had a well established wild population in Devon in the 1940s (the first UK first farm was established in 1929). The first animal rights release wasn't until the 1980s when there was already an established mink population. Introduced mink populations also exist in Norway, Spain, Italy etc all places that didn't have mass animal rights releases. A good example is Japan were they now have a introduced wild mink population having never had animal rights activity. In fact Japan even banned the fur farming of mink in 2006 as there eradication efforts were failing due to the continued escapes from fur farms. On the water vole front I could write you an dissertation but basically the number one issue with water vole populations is river bank vegetation management. The number two is population. Then it's predation by other species, mink do have an effect on water vole populations, but mink aren't really that more effective than otters in that regard. Brown rats and even pikes can cause real issues as well.

@@davedavids57 Escapese were in small numbers and didn't often breed, the real problem started after the antis released thousands all together in the wild, mink are small enough to follow voles down their tunnels, we've seen the result in real time of eradicating mink and the return of voles.

@@hetrodoxly1203 It's hard to talk to people who just ignore the facts and go by their beliefs or feelings. But for other people who might read this in the future. Firstly escapees cause wild populations of mink. That's a fact. Evidence in the UK can clearly be seen in the media and the public record. For instance otters were declared a protected species in 1978. Most otter hunts saw the writing on the wall and switched to mink in the mid 1970s. Many hunts to as the Culmstock otter now Mink Hounds had been catching mink since the 1930s alongside otters (see there records). By the late 1980s when the first mink animal rights releases happened there were over 15 mink hunts already established and going out three times a week. Also look at Japan and Norway they have established wild American mink populations simply from escapees. This is in Japanese but with google translate you can read all about it. Japan even banned fur farming in 2006 due to this escapee problem (japan has never had animal rights activism) www.nies.go.jp/biodiversity/invasive/DB/detail/10190.html Taking data from Japanese studies it is clear that the gradual decline in mink population in the UK is greatly helped by the ban on fur farming and the fact that numbers aren't being added to be escapees.

This type of hunting is terrible for both otter and water vole populations. That's why the populations of both have actually increased markedly since the banning of this type of hunting. The first well established populations of mink were in the 1950s and 1960s as Jack said. The first mass release of mink wasn't until the 1980s. All countries that have or have had fur farming industries have wild North American mink populations, look at Japan. There has never been a mass release of mink at a fur farm there. However keeping mink in fur farms was banned due to the large number of escapees who were damaging the Japanese countryside. Google the Japanese Invasive Alien Species Act of 2006. Also mass rabbit releases causing wild Rabbit hemorrhagic disease? Ummm firstly are you suggesting there were lots of rabbit farms fulled with a disease in England? Also mass rabbit release isn't going to go very well is it. Rabbits aren't hares!!! As well how can you explain the fact that the whole of Europe has RHD now even places (like Lapland, Russia, Malta etc) that don't have a history of animal rights activism. RHD is spread in the same way foot and mouth is spread. Normally on dirty machinery.

David Newman Agreed... The otter was hunted out, the fish population grew... We used to fish the Ouse at Newport Pagnell ten years ago... Caught some huge barbel and chub... We returned the next season to the same excellent swim.. 3 blanks in a row and not a single fish, then on the fourth trip I heard some splashing, shone the torch and there was an otter... Reintroduced by well meaning ppl but they have had a terrible effect on large fish populations.

Pathetic excuse for a human being

Exactly they are all murders

Brown rat i would say. Off chance it was a stoat or juvenile otter hut unlikely. Nothing else that size that swims in british rivers.

@union310 There are lots of terriers Bedlingtons and Jack Russells ect.

C'mon though, they're entitled to their views and beliefs just as much as anyone else.

LETS HAVE IT STRAIGHT . They kill to eat not for barbaric blood sport

@@zola561 So, killing the mink to protect your fish stocks on a river you rely on to bring in your livelihood (fishing day tickets) is not the same thing?

Matthew Tanner what is wrong with humanely killing them by gun etc . Why get dressed up as toffs to hear the barbaric ripping apart of an animal in agony suffering. The introduction of mink was brought about by the gentry for fur farming which the retards let out . Only ugly people wear fur off beautiful animals

The priority should be on protection of indigenous species first, if they directly compete with our own, there must be control. Too much self centered fantasy has us at odds with nearly all our traditional ways, such is the pity.

I want to know too. Shazam couldn’t find anything

It was done for the sports of seeing the hounds work, not for economical reasons. It's now illegal, baned for emotional not logical reasons.

@@Jonny906 Blood Sport

Unfortunate. outlawing these traditions are a sign of a culture in the grip of decay.

@@dangerous9straps703 Or culture improving it self, native american indains had it right as we did when we was hunters and geathers, you don't kill for the sake of it, a kill is not to be wasted, you use every part that you can.

I understand that the mink should be wipe out and are a pest, but there is no need to be cruel and wasteful about it, the pelts can be used, the meat can be use for food, what is left can be used to make glue. Blood Sport is not a Sport at all same as Fox hunts its cruelity for the sake of being cruel

There are more otters now than ever and due to the demise of the eel they are decimating fish stocks on certain rivers. Combine them and the mink both which have no natural predators and it upsets the balance of nature. I love seeing the otters that live near me in Oxford but what with cormorants, herons, otters and mink it won't be long before the smaller rivers are devoid of fish.

@@RicTic66 Mink are not indigenous and eat a lot more than fish they sadly decimate avian species I have no problem with indigenous species doing what they do, but Mink need eradicating due to idiots releasing them into the wild.

@@josephking1947 Hi Joseph. I totally agree with you. I guess I should have made my post clearer 😊

@@RicTic66 That's cool, I had a look at otter predation in the UK wolves would of been their natural predator, foxes kill otters if they get a chance on land, Domestic dogs kill a few apart from that they seem safe,maybe a big female buzzard would take a immature one, at least the Otters are killing the Mink, there numbers are down by 40%😀👍.. what's worse than any predators is the wind farms apart from destroying the landscape,they kill thousands of birds millions of insects and have annihilated numerous species of bats...keep well

@@josephking1947 very misinformed and don’t know what you are talking about.

So are ferrets and terriers

Yeah I want a mink for ratting

Nathan _Dino No harm? They’ve nearly wiped out the population of water voles in the U.K.

I'd do a bit of research first before you shoot your gob off. Make sure yours doesn't escape or.....

You are a complete moron it's people like you that help destroy our countryside. The mink is an invasive speaces

Sorry species, and by your attitude and 'gobby' manner you is ignorant as shit.

back in the 60's when a bunch of anti;s released them from a farm near ringwood in the new forest they roamed for miles killing wild life fish and even small domestic pets, catch the odd fish ?? i dont think so !!

It’s the way nature intended it.

Pathetic. The dogs were doing what dogs just love to do. And ridding a river of a piece of non-indigenous vermin.

Yeah prefer poison them ?

Well, minks are pests, 16:34 you can see a mink killed a duck and a fish. So here’s an ethics question for you. Ought you hunt the mink in a fun and challenging manner or let the mink kill everything else comparable in size, bites their heads off and drink the blood from their bodies

@@zach_7ay Mate, the people that take part in these blood sports are a bunch of ***** and you know it. Given the chance of putting a cornered "Pest" out of its misery, which do you think they choose? By shooting it or letting the hounds tear it apart, Look at how these people treat hunt sabs. And nowadays they are breaking the law but they still practice this barbaric "Sport".