Consider the Foxes

In “Virginia Is for Horse Lovers” (by Karin Winegar, Oct. 15), the author claimed that her animal lover’s fears were allayed when a fox-hunting stable owner told her that the foxes are “rarely caught” and that “they have a good time teasing us” before they “go to ground.” Is this what fox hunters call it when a terrified animal is running from the sounds of horses’ hooves and baying dogs? And what happens when a fox is caught? Why was this story in a “Special Travel Issue?” Perhaps you should have called it a “Killing Issue.”

Forrest G. Wood

Bakersfield