Sir - I won't comment on Anne Atkins' enthusiasm for hunting (Country Times, March 30), as people who boast about their repulsive tastes enjoy hearing of the anguish they cause to others, and I would rather not give Anne Atkins any pleasure. However, I will provide balance to her sickening article.

I was monitoring the Old Berks Hunt on the day she joined them. While she was enjoying her sugary version of events, we monitors were endeavouring, non-confrontationally, to film events surrounding the hunt's activites, including the running foxes we saw and the various hunt practices which caused us concern. We were sworn at, stalked and obstructed. We had to stop a passing police car for help, and after looking at my film, the two officers spoke to one hunt follower, warning him to leave me alone.

Jessica-Leigh Pemberton's words "We like to look after people", quoted breathlessly by Ms Atkins, at least gave we monitors some amusement.

The Oxford Times website reported that on February 24 - the day Anne Atkins was hunting - the Old Berks' hounds ".......invaded a fenced nature reserve near the village and were filmed "tearing an animal apart". The reserve, Uffington Gorse, is owned by the Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity, which said it might pursue the illegal invasion of its land. Our film is with the police.

Atkins' claim that hunts are now "charged to dig out foxes with terriers and shoot them" is malicious rubbish. The Act contains an exemption for gamekeepers to use no more than one terrier to flush a fox out of an underground refuge to a waiting gun. Defra state this exemption is unlikely to be legally used by anyone but a gamekeeper. We strongly object to this exemption in principle, and predicted hunt terriermen would exploit it. We were right.

Penny Little, Great Haseley