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Otters were illegally persecuted by fishermen and hunted with specially bred otter hounds until the practice was finally banned in 1981.

If you’re born in the North Country, it’s hard to keep out of the river when you hear the otter hounds.”

The otter hounds were out, and Mr. Ferris was driving his wife in the car to the meet.

Of course Kitty can have no idea that Golderly has hunted a pack of otter hounds for some years.

Landseer – who sculpted the lions in Trafalgar Square – spent a long time in the Highlands watching country life and the otter painting depicts a hunter and enthusiastic otter hounds belonging to the Earl of Aberdeen.