Further to Pat and David Onions' letter about a fox's messy death (November 30) and their revised version of events.
As a mounted follower of Saltersgate Farmers' Hunt I can inform the Onions that we met at Cropton on Saturday, November 14 and that the Onions would indeed have heard the hounds singing when they were walking at Cawthorne Roman Camps.
The hounds were at one point running a fox behind Ellerton Lodge, but I don't remember a fox being caught that day and after speaking to the Master and huntsmen of the Saltersgate, my recollection of the day's events were confirmed.
Mr and Mrs Onions, whatever you heard on November 14 could not have been a fox being torn apart.
Assumptions of this nature only serve to aggravate an already sensitive issue.
R M Russell,
Middleton,
Pickering,
North Yorkshire.
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