Kenada Fox Hounds Honors The Sport With Tradition And A Hearty Dose Of Texas Flair

MFH Amy Adams Strunk has good reason to be proud of the hunt she established more than two decades ago on her family's 7,500-acre cattle ranch.

As with any foxhunting group around the world, the members of Kenada Fox Hounds in Rockdale, Texas, have amassed a wealth of colorful anecdotes and wild tales over the years. But there’s one story that Kenada members particularly love to recount: The Rowboat Incident.

Kenada MFH Amy Adams Strunk and honorary whipper-in Jeepers Ragsdale were key players in the episode, which occurred on a blustery day in January 2004.

As Ragsdale recalled: “We had a pretty large field, and we were having a great day. The hounds had been after a coyote for about 3 miles, and eventually they ran it into a stock pond. The pond had an old rowboat floating in the middle of it.

“Well, the coyote swam out to the rowboat and just jumped inside,” Ragsdale continued. “A bunch of hounds were still on its tail, and they jumped right in after it. That caused the rowboat to flip over, and Amy was afraid of some hounds drowning underneath. So I had to wade into the freezing lake, flip the boat back over and count the hounds. It was quite a circus.”

Strunk laughed with the memory. “Jeepers kept saying: ‘But these are my good boots!’