The story of the Border Counties Otterhounds starts with Mr Edmund Buckley’s hounds (see our vintage gallery) He gave up the hounds, which he kennelled at Newtown, Montgomeryshire in 1905. The pack was kept together by both sportsmen and women living in the Welsh-Shropshire border counties when its extinction seemed to be a certainty. To...

Written in 1874 the author takes the reader on a trip to Wales with Mr Hill’s Hawkstone Otterhounds. The nature of the otter and its peculiar habits render the river chase different from that of any other, and it has the merit of taking place at a time of the year when it is the...