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Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen the horrifying video – shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs – of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out and ripping a live fox to pieces. One of the most disturbing aspects of the video is the that way that visibly young individuals – who would not even […]
Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people were horrified by the video shot by Lake District Hunt Sabs showing the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox and throwing her to hounds just last Saturday. Since the video went live, the HSA has been inundated by people expressing their outrage and offering their support. It was apparently […]
On Saturday 8th November, Lake District Hunt Sabs filmed the Coniston Foxhounds in the act of digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. Just weeks before the government’s hunting consultation is due to begin, hunt saboteurs have once again exploded the myth of trail hunting! When the HSA showed the footage to presenter […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association has produced a booklet titled ‘Witness The End Of Hunting’ which outlines our plans to stop hunters in their tracks or – at least – get them into court with a high chance of prosecution. With the government’s consultation on hunting to begin “early in the new year” this is the […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association and its affiliated groups have been actively opposing all forms of hunting with hounds since 1963. This means we have over sixty years’ experience of studying hunting in the field and developing tactics to sabotage it. Chris Packham helps to launch our campaign. As such, we are the only people outside […]
On Saturday 01st of November the Portman Hunt held their opening meet at Manor Farm, Manston, and within ten minutes of leaving the meet hounds launched a savage attack on a deer. Locals Against the BSV Hunt were in attendance and filmed the distressing attack on their drone. The convicted huntsman Shaun Marles did not […]
You may have seen recently that police forces all over the country have been posting on their social media accounts about how their rural crime teams are tackling hare coursing. Warwickshire Rural Crime team are promoting “OP GALILEO” and in a recent post described how coursing is an “unlawful and unethical ‘sport’ causing distress to […]
This morning, Wednesday 29th October, the criminal Fitzwilliam Hunt killed a fox while hunting near Keyston in Cambridgeshire. They met at Manor Farm and spent the morning hunting nearby with sabs in attendance. At approximately 9:30am hounds flushed a fox from a small wood close to the road just southwest of the meet. After a short chase the hounds caught and killed the fox. Sabs had no chance to intervene.
HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of weeks. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition features articles on a huge range of topics […]
From north to south, the last few months have seen many meets of hare-hunting beagle and basset packs sabbed.
Between August and October or November these packs are ‘leveret hunting’ – a secretive pre-season practice where young hounds are entered into the pack and trained against young hares, akin to the better known ‘cubbing’ season carried out by fox hunts.
Last Friday, two East Northants Hunt Sabs were found not guilty of aggravated trespass at St Albans Magistrate Court. The court case followed events at the closing meet of the Cambridgeshire Hunt with Enfield Chace Hunt on March 8th, 2025.
Last Friday, pro-bloodsports lobby group, the British Hound Sports Association, achieved the impossible – they managed to make their showpiece National Trail Hunting Day even more ridiculous and irrelevant than last year!
The HSA had long ago dubbed the event ‘Farcical Friday’ but even we were surprised by its inept organisation and embarrassing turnout.
On the day that hunters gather around the country to promote the smokescreen of ‘trail hunting’, the HSA has been passed a ground-breaking, year-long investigation into a single artificial earth used by the Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (Wynnstay) Hunt.
In just 24 hours the North Cotswold Hunt will be presenting itself as shining example of a ‘trail hunting’ pack as it hosts of one of seven gatherings across the country for National Trail Hunting Day – an event dubbed Farcical Friday by the HSA.
This Friday sees the second National Trail Hunting Day, dubbed Farcical Friday by the HSA. The event has been cobbled together by pro-bloodsports lobby group the British Hound Sports Association in an attempt to present ‘trail hunting’ as a legitimate activity.
The Dorset-based Park Beagles have folded, according to pro-hunt lobby group the Countryside Alliance. As with the Sandhurst & Aldershot Beagles , which we reported last week, the Park Beagles have become a so-called ‘hunt club’, which means they have given up their hounds and staff and will therefore continue to exist in name only. […]
How the Atherstone Hunt became history and how West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs made it happen.
On the 24th of September 2025 the Atherstone Hunt was officially consigned to the history books, almost six years after they disbanded and ceased hunting. A hard-fought campaign by West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs that spanned over six years, saw a demise in hunt support and due to a persistent sab presence, the hunt ultimately had no other option than to concede defeat.
Yesterday, Monday 28th September, HSA representatives attended the Labour Party conference in Liverpool (well, we were outside actually, as it’s very expensive to set up inside and we don’t want to misuse our supporter’s donations!), to show MPs and Labour Party attendees the depth of feeling around strengthening the Hunting Act.
With the official start of the hare hunting season just a few weeks away, news reaches the HSA that the Sandhurst & Aldershot Beagles – unaffectionately known as ‘SAB’- are no more. This is excellent news for local lagomorphs as the Sandhurst had a reputation as fast, effective pack who killed a lot of hares.
The season so far.
The stag hunting season has only been underway for just over a month and already stags in the Southwest of England have been subjected to abhorrent levels of cruelty and pain by the stag hound packs, who, for over twenty years have hidden behind loopholes such as ‘Research & Observation’.
Since the Devon & Somerset Staghounds official opening meet on the 30th August multiple stags have been terrorised and killed. A common tactic by stag hunt supporters is to use their vehicles to block roads, preventing stags from seeking respite or escaping, and the 30th August was no different, as followers prevented a group of stags from crossing the B2332 in Ashcombe and again at Simonsbath. Despite fifty car followers being present, it was clear that support for this barbaric hunt is dwindling with a noticeable decrease in both riders and car followers for their opening meet. Thankfully on this day a combination of poor weather, sab pressure and another stag from the herd creating a diversion, meant that the hunts chosen stag escaped on this occasion.
