Packing the pack: the foxhound abroad
“The Ooty, formed in 1835, chased a range of game, from sambur to tiger”
The British have ever been lovers of home, the comforts and entertainments thereof, rather than cleaving to the view of St Ambrose that when in Rome one should do as the Romans do. Despite this apparently rigid approach the British and their hounds have been remarkably successful in exporting themselves and their pleasures around the world. Foxhounds have proved adaptable enough to have hunted a wide variety of quarry, including dingo, emu, wallaby, kangaroo, coyotes, jackal, buck (of various kinds) and, of course, a drag as they are now reduced to doing at home.
“The ’os loves the ’ound and I loves both,” said George Whyte-Melville, and might have continued that it is this love that has brought hounds and hunting to every continent the British have settled. noted in 1928 that, “Wherever the British Army may be quartered, even though it
