It has become a tourist attraction to watch the daily feeding of this pack of hounds at Chateau de Cheverny in the Loire Valley, south of Paris. There are 70 of these large muscular dogs in total (a cross breed of English Foxhound and French Poitou) and the owner of the chateau takes them hunting twice a week, year round.
I shot wide open at F2.8 and manually focused on the tip of this bitch's nose. She alone seemed curious about me-- the others, not at all. A male peed on her leg as she was posing for me.