[honeybee]

Originally Posted by StuartDH

I don't know, but I also don't know that 'a lot of the time they're shut away...'. I 'm not sure how that could be proved to be the case, or that most are starved, other than through extensive research. What percentage of dogs are starved? One is obviously too many, but I wonder if it's far too much of a generalisation to suggest that all hunting dogs, or even many hunting dogs, are being treated in a particular way.

On the occasions when I've seen hunting dogs out and about I have to admit that I've never seen anything in their appearance that would suggest they're being ill-treated.

I was just speaking of my experience with certain hunts (about 3), that I myself have seen.