An hour spent one way will feel just as valuable (or just as non-valuable) as an hour spent some other way, with no method for discriminating between the two.
If we do have to control foxes, shooting is much more humane method than chasing after them for an hour or two only for them to die of either a heart attack or the body being ripped to shreds by a pack of hounds which have been starved before the hunt.
In the old days the tried and true method was a three-martini lunch followed by an hour or two in the office before going out for happy hour cocktails.