On many hunts scent isn't sufficient for hounds to run at all. They cannot run what they can't smell. Even these slow days are fun as the scenery is always beautiful, fellow foxhunters are enjoyable and watching the hounds as they attempt to find the quarry is pleasurable. Fox populations in hunt country are exceptionally healthy due to natural selection. In some parts of North America coyotes have become a nuisance and are destroying livestock.
Hunts do attempt to kill the coyote with limited success.
The generic term foxhunting applies to red fox, grey fox, coyote and bobcat chasing depending on location. In colonial days the primary quarry was the grey fox. Red foxes were found only in Canada and as far south as New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The grey fox was native to the country south of there. Some red foxes migrated to the southern states.