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Feb 10, 2006. LONDON (AP) - He is reluctant to call himself a human fox, but several times a year John Whetton is chased through the British countryside by scarlet-coated huntsmen and their packs of hounds.
"I get caught very, very rarely," Whetton said Friday. "But, when I do, the worst that can happen is you get licked to death."
Whetton, a former Olympic middle-distance runner who ran in Tokyo and Mexico City in the 1964 and 1968 Games, is a volunteer for the Readyfield Bloodhounds hunt, a fox-less hunt held in central England.
The alternative event has gained popularity since Britain's Hunting Act came into force last February following a bitterly fought political battle over the sport.
All traditional fox hunting and other kinds of events in which dogs chase and kill prey were outlawed under the legislation.
Feb 10, 2006. LONDON (AP) - He is reluctant to call himself a human fox, but several times a year John Whetton is chased through the British countryside by scarlet-coated huntsmen and their packs of hounds.
"I get caught very, very rarely," Whetton said Friday. "But, when I do, the worst that can happen is you get licked to death."
Whetton, a former Olympic middle-distance runner who ran in Tokyo and Mexico City in the 1964 and 1968 Games, is a volunteer for the Readyfield Bloodhounds hunt, a fox-less hunt held in central England.
The alternative event has gained popularity since Britain's Hunting Act came into force last February following a bitterly fought political battle over the sport.
All traditional fox hunting and other kinds of events in which dogs chase and kill prey were outlawed under the legislation.
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