IN a comment about hare coursing in a letter opposing hunting, L Edwards mentions that there should be a “big photo of a hare being pulled apart by dogs” (HAS, April 14).

Your correspondent has obviously never witnessed hare coursing, but has founded their opinion from the misconceptions of others.

The main purpose of hare coursing originally was for the end product of a hare’s carcass for food. This is why the dogs kill the hare by biting it on the back of its neck and swiftly breaking it, not by pulling its body apart.

If they did, you would not be left with much to cook and eat.

Too many people have false ideas of country sports, which they do not really know about or understand.

William Scarr, Bainbridge, Leyburn, North Yorkshire.