Cubbing Season

 

As all of the old 'sport' books will tell you; cubbing season is when fox cubs are removed from their den so that they can be 'chased' and killed by young hounds. This used to be a private 'show' with invitations sent out to selected guests to watch.

These days young foxes are thrown to hounds in kennels.

The whole purpose of this 'event' in which vixens and dog foxes were also killed (strange that in many cases foxes were not around for 'sport' later in the year?) was to give young hounds "a taste of their future function'.