Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
Last Wednesday, sabs from Calder Valley, Sheffield and East Yorkshire Coast hit the very elusive Catterick Beagles. Sabs were shocked to find the meet was hosted by Aysgarth School, a posh prep school in Newton le Willows, North Yorkshire.
Sabs from eight different groups joined forces last week to sab the annual Two Bridges Hunt Club meet on Dartmoor.
Here at HSA Towers, we are used to hearing hunters come up with delusional theories, far fetched stories and generally bonkers alternative realities. However, last week their fantasist-in-chief the factually challenged Mr Tim Bonner, came out with an impressive pack of fibs on his personal venting platform, the Countryside Alliance blog.
Warning: this post contains distressing images The disembowelled body of a fox was found in an unnamed wood near Hankerton in Wiltshire on 7th February 2024, just moments after hunt hounds were seen leaving the wood, some covered with blood. Cotswold Hunt Sabs (CHS) and Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch (CIHW) were in the area keeping an eye […]
19 years ago today the press assembled, sabs popped champagne corks and hunters spoke of outright defiance as a new law was enacted aimed at stopping the cruelty of hunting with hounds.
Inspired by Gregg Wallace’s recent article, a Hunt Sab talks us through their typical Saturday.
On Saturday the 17th February, almost exactly 19 years after fox hunting was made illegal, the army will host a meet of the notorious Quorn Hunt at the Defence Animal Training Regiment Headquarters at Remount Barracks, Melton Mowbray. Soldiers will be on duty to facilitate the meet and the entire event will be funded by taxpayers money.
We have been reliably informed, from several independent sources, that the Oakley hunt will fold at the end of this season.
A couple of weeks ago, the HSA reported on the merger of two of the south east’s last remaining fox hunts. The new outfit will be known as the ‘Southdown & Eridge with East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt.’ Not exactly catchy, is it?
The Royal Agricultural College Beagles are the student hare hunt of the Royal Agricultural University based in Cirencester. They have been feeling the pressure recently, with 7 hunting days lost to sabs so far this season. Frustrated, on Saturday they turned to the age-old hunt tactic of intimidation.
The Somerset-based ‘Weston & Banwell with West Somerset Vale Hunt’ deliberately hunted and killed a fox last Wednesday, the 31st January. Sabs from Mendip, Bristol, and Somerset groups were in attendance and saved several other foxes throughout the day.
Last Thursday, Channel 4 News screened an extended report on illegal fox hunting in the UK. One horrifying sequence – supplied to Channel 4 News by the HSA – shows members of the Wiltshire-based Avon Vale Hunt digging a fox from her underground refuge and throwing her to the hounds.
Cumbria and Lancashire Hunt Sab update us on their campaign against foxhunting in the rugged Cumbrian fells, where hunters pursue foxes on foot.
Last night, the nation watched in horror at Channel 4 News once again exposed illegal fox hunting across the UK. One of the most distressing sequences – supplied to Channel 4 News by the HSA – shows a terrierman dragging a terrified fox from her refuge and throwing her to the feet of the pack.
It may be a new year, but hunts are still illegally hunting foxes, using violence and causing road chaos. And some are even invited on to MOD land to do so!
It’s official! The BHSA has confirmed that the Southdown & Eridge Hunt and the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt are merging together! This great news means that there will now be one less fox hunt in the South East.
This season the campaign to close the Cottesmore Hunt has grown stronger. Every fundraiser has been targeted, a week of action was held during the cubbing season as we sabbed them five times during that week and we have been hitting them more often at their midweek meets.
But with this success comes a price and when dealing with the most notoriously violent fox hunt in Britain over the last five years then there was only going to be one outcome. Hunt Violence.
Last September ‘rent a thugs’ appeared at the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt, assaulting Sabs from Weymouth Animal Rights (WAR) and stealing equipment. They have now been charged with assault and theft by Dorset Police.
Just a week after two hounds belonging to a Dartmoor hunt were run over and killed on a public highway, another gruesome scene emerged from within Dartmoor National Park on Saturday when the Lamerton Hunt disembowelled a fox in front of Plymouth & West Devon Hunt Sabs.
It’s a New Year, and hunts are dreaming up new ways to try to hide their illegal activities. When Calder Valley Hunt Sabs rolled up to a meet of North York & West of Yore Hunt near Catterick, North Yorkshire on Saturday it was immediately clear that fox hunting was in progress. The terrier crew were seen on quad bikes, with the classic set-up of a terrier box on the front and a storage locker – containing spades, digging bars, and the other tools of their vile trade – on the back.
