“Cruel And Illegal” Hare Hunt Celebrated At Hunting Festival
The Stowe School Beagles – dubbed “cruel and illegal” by Northamptonshire Police – have won a major prize at hunting’s showcase event, the Festival of Hounds.
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The Autumn Stag Hunting Season Is Fast Approaching
In less than a few weeks the stag hunting season will begin, with the three remaining stag hunts in the south west, heading out to terrorise and kill mature autumn stags. This will continue until the end of October when they switch their sights to hinds. The autumn stag hunting season focuses on more mature […]
Vote Not-OK: The Duplicitous Tactics Of The Pro-Hunt Lobby
Recently, we highlighted a The Times article which exposed a plot by the current chair of the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), Viscount William Waldorf Astor III, to “hoodwink” – or, to put it more plainly, deceive – government ministers over the forthcoming trail hunting policy. According to the uncovered plot, the proposal was to […]
PETERING OUT IN PETERBOROUGH: THE 2026 FESTIVAL OF HOUNDS
Today the ever-shrinking hunting world will gather at the east of England Showground near Peterborough for their annual Festival of Hounds. For decades, this event was known as the Festival of Hunting but – as so often in the hunting world – language has been changed to hide their real intent. Fittingly, the Festival is now […]
HOWL – Hounds Off Our Wildlife
HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – has just hit the doormats of our thousands of members. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition is packed with articles on a huge range of topics including: the scourge of […]
BSV: BLOOD SPORTS & VIOLENCE. THE NOTORIOUS BLACKMORE & SPARKFORD VALE HUNT REACH 18 CONVICTIONS IN 3 YEARS!
The Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt (BSV) have just racked up a total of eighteen convictions in three years. The latest is the conviction of regular rider Fred Ford, who during a cubbing meet last year, pinned a female sab to a gate while she was trying to access a footpath. While the sab was […]
HUNTING AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
In March 2026 the BBC reported that ministers had declared a national emergency in response to the epidemic of violence against women and girls. The report also stated that “the UK government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls within a decade.” Violence, misogyny and sexism have always been prominent within the hunting […]
RABBITING ON: ILLEGAL HARE HUNTS AND THEIR SEE-THROUGH SMOKESCREEN
The last few weeks have seen landmark court cases involving hare hunts, with the kennel huntsman of a private school beagle pack found guilty of illegal hunting after a hare was killed, and hunt sab’s footage securing the first ever conviction of a basset pack. The conviction of Phillip Kennedy, kennel huntsman of the Stowe […]
THE FOX AND THE CROW, BUT NO FABLE HERE
The recent rescue of a snared fox and caged corvid from a Larsen trap on a Wiltshire shooting estate, once again highlights the way in which wealthy interests are often prioritised over Britain’s already fragile biodiversity. The shooting industry often associated with wealthy landowners, the aristocracy and royalty (sometimes the plebs are allowed to join […]
CONISTON FOXHOUNDS AND STOWE BEAGLES KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY
Today, the HSA can exclusively reveal that Philip Kennedy, recently convicted kennel huntsman of the Stowe Beagles, is the son of Steve Kennedy, the longtime secretary of the Coniston Foxhounds, the fell pack at the centre of the country’s largest-ever investigation into illegal foxhunting. This revelation explains why the Stowe Beagles have made so many […]
He Astor Be Kidding: Top Fox Hunters Try To Hoodwink Government
As reported in The Times hunt leaders – including British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) Chair, father-in-law to ex-PM David Cameron – Viscount Astor, are plotting to hoodwink the government into making small changes to the types of scent used by so-called ‘trail’ hunts, enabling ministers to ‘claim victory’ without introducing the comprehensive legislation that would ensure an end to hunting wildlife with dogs.
What A Holley Mess! CPS Hand Terriermen a Not Guilty Verdict
On the 9th of June 2026, two members of the South Shropshire Hunt (now called the Shropshire Hunt), William Hand and Toby Holley, appeared at Telford Magistrates Court accused of interfering with a badger sett contrary to section 3 of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. Previously Dave Conde, another terrierman for the hunt, pleaded guilty […]
A Rubbish Day For The Bin-bag Beaufort – Three Hunter’s Charged!
After countless hours of footage showing foxes being hunted, chased and killed, Avon & Somerset Police have finally taken action, charging three members of the Beaufort Hunt with illegal hunting offences.
GUILTY! HUNT SABS SECURE FIRST EVER CONVICTION AGAINST A BASSET PACK
Charlie Ford, huntsman of the Devon & Somerset Bassets, was found guilty of a Hunting Act offence at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 18 June 2026.This is the first time a basset pack has been convicted under the Hunting Act. The offence occurred on the 13th of October 2024 at Mullins Farm in Bagber. North […]
Deeply Worrying: The Stowe School Beagles
One of the many disturbing aspects of the recent drone video that led to the conviction of Stowe Beagles Kennel Huntsman Philip Kennedy is the way that he and others gloat over the hounds ripping the hare to pieces. This was an aspect of the video noted by Northamptonshire Police Rural Crime Team who commented: […]
Trail Hunting Consultation – Please Do It Today!
Our twelve-week countdown is now almost over – the government’s trail hunting closes at 11.59pm tomorrow night – 18th June 2026. If you have not done so already, please make sure your voice is heard in the next twenty-four hours. We will not get this chance again. And even as the consultation draws to a […]
Albrighton & Woodland Hunt huntsman and whipper in GUILTY of violent attack
We are now in the final week of the consultation into banning ‘trail hunting’ and despite hunts professing their innocence they are continuing to rack up convictions for hunting offences and violence. As well as the recent conviction of the huntsman from the Stowe Beagles for killing a hare, the Albrighton & Woodland Hunt’s huntsman […]
KILLING ON THE CURRICULUM – SCHOOL HARE HUNTS
With only a few days to go until the Government’s consultation on banning so-called ‘trail hunting’ closes (complete it here), hunters are doing a great job of showing the public the truth behind their smokescreen – this time the damning evidence coming from a private school’s illegal hare hunt. On Thursday 4th June, Phillip Kennedy […]
One Week To Go: Staggering Cruelty Exposed At Stag Hunt
With just over a week to go until the government’s public consultation on strengthening the Hunting Act closes, the HSA is today releasing horrifying leaked footage from within stag hunting.
Sick Private School Hunt Guilty of Killing Hare
The huntsman of a boarding school beagle pack pleaded guilty to illegal hunting last week, after shocking drone footage caught them killing a hare and then congratulating each other. Phillip Kennedy, 48, kennel huntsman of the Stowe Beagles – the hunt of the prestigious Buckinghamshire private school of the same name – pleaded guilty to […]