Marooned in a snowbank with nothing but my hounds, battling Mother Nature and cuddling up together, it took this brutal winter to solidify a few essential truths. I had suspected these, but in the Petrie dish of isolated winter survival, I am now convinced.
Almost every hunt across Europe and North America conducts a Blessing of the Hounds. St Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and huntsmen, began this tradition twelve hundred years ago.
Almost every hunt across Europe and North America conducts a Blessing of the Hounds. St Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and huntsmen, began this tradition twelve hundred years ago.