A large dog fox walks to within 30 yards of the man, who happens to be holding a gun at the time. The man calls the woman, who appears from behind the buildings and asks what's wrong. He says there's a fox standing looking at him from right next to the hen paddock, so the woman wakes her old Saluki from his snooze in the sun, calls her Jack Russell and runs up the field on the far side of the hen paddock to head the fox off.
The man stays at one end of the field, the woman is at the other with two dogs designed to kill or maim vermin. The fox is standing in muddy soil about half way between them, next to the hens (who are all by the fence checking out the new friend).
The woman tells her Saluki to "GET IT!!!"
The Saluki looks, blinks and wanders off in the opposite direction. He doesn't fancy all that mud and wants to get back to his snooze.
The woman tells her Jack Russell to "GET IT!!!"
The Jack Russell signs and starts to pick his way slowly over the mud trying to avoid getting his paws too wet.
The fox walks towards the woman and terrier, fully aware of their utter incompetance.
Long story short, fox walks out under the fence, Jack Russell follows it and only starts to run once on drier ground in the next field. He runs at his fastest, yapping like a mad thing while the fox lops off at a slow trot pretty much laughing out loud. On it's way the fox passes the man, who has put down his gun to pick up binoculars so he can get a better view.
Please note - I have hidden the names of myself, my partner and my two dogs to avoid disgrace
Now you see why they need 40 hounds and 50 horses to hunt foxes in the countryside ........ we're clearly rubbish on our own!
