Trail hunting

A trail of animal urine (most commonly fox) is laid in advance of the 'hunt', and then tracked by the hound pack and a group of followers; on foot, horseback, or both.

By 2005, most forms of hunting animals with hounds had been made illegal across Great Britain,[2] although many remain within the law in Northern Ireland.

The League Against Cruel Sports has claimed that, of 4,000 monitored hunts, someone was seen laying a possible trail in an average of around only 3% of occasions.

[14] In recent years several major landowners including the National Trust and Natural Resources Wales have banned trail hunting on their land.

Clean boot hunting uses packs of bloodhounds to follow the natural trail of a human's scent.