10 comments

  1. Ryan Speir

    That ” sort of spotted cat ” in the middle of the photograph with the 2 foxes is a bobcat.

  2. Cedria King

    Wow, this brought back memories of going fox hunting with my granddad and uncle, staying out all night, listening to the hounds. You could tell by the way they bayed what they were chasing, be it a fox, raccoon, or whatever. My granddad had beautiful, registered Walker coon hounds. He even took them to field trials and did well. They mainly hunted in st. Clair county. They had the dogs until the late 70s. Grandad Alvin Barber Sr. Died in the 80s. Alvin Barber Jr died a couple of years ago. They lived in Pell City and built many roads in the Southeast and overseas. I have the real cow horns made for calling the dogs. They are very old.

  3. Betty Jean Sheffield

    My father, Walter Popwell, of Chilton Co. Alabama, was an old time fox hunter, he bred fox hounds as a hobby.

  4. Claire Adams

    Growing up in Vestavia in the 1950’s, remember well when the Vestavia Country Club had a “riding stable” (took lessons each Sat) – and had a “Hunt Club” and the
    annual “Hunt Club Ball” at VCC was one of the “social highlights” of the year for
    my mother & her friends…

  5. Jason Myers

    Hunting with hounds is a dying practice. It has been dying because of the deer hunters and deer hunting being a big business. Love listening to them hounds run!!!!!

  6. Teresa Stinson

    Heath Howell, take a look at this

  7. Reba Patterson

    In DeKalb county the Owen family had fox dogs but nobody here road horses. Most everybody farmed the men would load up with whoever had a truck, turn the dogs loose, light a fire and let them run.

  8. Joey West

    Earl Jr Ketchum

  9. Willie Walker

    There are still private clubs and areas for Fox hunting in southern Alabama,,but I consider it a cruel blood sport.

  10. Jerry Elliott

    My grandfather, Marion ” Mate” Harris was a member of the Winston County fox hunters Association for many years I had the pleasure several times as a boy of going fox hunting with my grandfather it was one of my favorite childhood memories

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