DRESS THE PART

You wrote an interesting response in respect of “hounds off the leash”, and “running miles”(Letters, 11 August). It is perfectly possible — as I do — to track a deer or boar with a dog untethered and to do so ‘under control’ for both short and long distances, dependent upon how far the game may have travelled, and to do it quietly dressed in tweed or Gore-Tex.

I have never seen anyone hunting anywhere dressed in lederhosen; not even our German teckel would approve of bare knees