Foxes on Shooting Days. 67 



night after a shoot foxes have an orgle amongst 

 wounded game, and much of what they do not 

 consume is thoroughly spoiled, but if all earths 

 are kept closed with the foxes inside for a single 

 night every head of wounded game may be 

 collected next day. Being kept at ground for one 

 night will not harm foxes in the least, and is even 

 beneficial, as a big glut of food does them no 

 good whatever. If foxes are above ground not- 

 withstanding every precaution, it must not be 

 concluded that all game wounded will have 

 disappeared the night after a shooting, for an 

 energetic old dog-fox has been known to bury 

 partly a dozen or so of pheasants on an adjacent 

 fallow or other convenient place, and a retriever 

 will find all these. Should much trouble of this 

 kind with foxes be expected, every effort ought to 

 be directed to collecting wounded game on the 

 day of the shoot, and extra hands must be 

 engaged for this work. Some keepers speak highly 

 of Renardine for excluding foxes from coverts on 

 shooting days, this fluid being liberally sprinkled 

 on all gates, fences, and along rides ; as its odour 

 is most offensive to foxes they are said to desert 

 the covert for the time being. 



Although everything possible is done and every 

 precaution observed, it is not a simple matter to 



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