Hold On…Why Are Hunts Still Holding Up?
With the ‘cub hunting’ part of the hunting season coming to an end and opening meets of the main season about to get underway, let’s take a look at what we’ve seen so far this year.
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Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
The Trail Of Lies: Hunting’s Publicity Drive Descends Into Farce
With fox hunting Opening Meets taking place in a couple of weeks, hunting’s so-called governing body – the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) – is laying on several promotional events to try to convince the public about trail hunting.
Hare Hunting Season Begins
This weekend marks the traditional start of the hare hunting season. This activity – known as beagling – is the hunting of hares by packs of beagle hounds. There are also a few packs of basset hounds that hunt hares.
Cruelty And Chaos At The Kimblewick Hunt
Self-proclaimed ‘superhunt’ the Kimblewick are currently without either huntsman or hounds.
The HSA has been told that their huntsman, Guy Fitzearle, has been sacked and taken the hounds to the Thurlow Hunt kennels in Suffolk.
No More Scottish ‘holidays’ For English Beagle Packs
On Tuesday October 3rd 2023, the new Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act became law. This replaces the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and closes the loopholes which have allowed hunts to continue to brutally kill wildlife. It should – finally – see the end of hunting with dogs in Scotland.
Notorious Warwickshire Hunt Brazenly Kill Fox
Yesterday, the Warwickshire Hunt deliberately hunted and killed a fox during a ‘cubbing’ meet near Idlicote, Warks. Saboteurs from Three Counties and West Midlands were at the meet doing their best to stop this notorious hunt, but sadly the poor fox was overwhelmed by the hunt’s hounds on the Idlicote House Estate. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE […]
Dorset Hunt Thugs Smash Sabs’ Vehicles In Cowardly Attack
Thugs from the Dorset-based Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt targeted two saboteurs’ houses in a cowardly evening raid last night (5th October). The thugs smashed up vehicles belonging to the activists, breaking windows and slashing tyres and even attempted to gain entry to the sabs’ houses.
The Cotswold Hunt Bagged-Fox, No Further Action by Gloucestershire Police
On 18 March 2023, sabs from both Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch and Three Counties Hunt Sabs were out sabotaging the Cotswold Hunt in Miserden, Gloucestershire when the horrendous discovery of a vixen fox tied up in a bag, buried, and concealed in an artificial earth was made.
FOX HUNTING FINISHED IN SCOTLAND!
The new Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act will come into force today, Tuesday October 3rd 2023. The new law will replace the current Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, ironing out the loopholes left which have allowed hunts to continue to brutally kill wildlife.
Sinful: Sinnington Huntsman Caught Feeding Foxes For Cub Hunt
With the autumn ‘sport’ of cub hunting resuming recently the HSA became aware of a covert in Great Habton, North Yorkshire, known by locals as ‘Bone Wood’ due to the unusually large number of animal corpses scattered around the place.
End of the Ecclesfield Beagles
Over the last week, sabs, moorland monitors and wildlife lovers in the South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire area have marked the end of the Ecclesfield Beagles.
Sabbing In The Shires – Cottesmore Week Of Action!
The campaign to close the Cottesmore Hunt has now reached five seasons. That is five seasons of sabbing them on every Saturday and a hefty number of their midweek meets.
The Viscount’s Vision Of Trail Hunting – It Astor Be A Joke!
The chairman of the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) William Waldorf Astor III (that’s Viscount Astor to you) has written a piece for Horse and Hound on ‘trail hunting’. The HSA takes a look at some of his claims.
Pro-hunt lobbyists eye up National Trust Council
Pro-hunting lobbyists are eyeing up spots on the National Trust Council ahead of the Trust’s AGM in November, with voting now open. Hunting lobby group the Countryside Alliance has encouraged its members to back a list of 5 candidates, with overturning the ban of so-called ‘trail hunting’ on National Trust land in their sights. These […]
Young hares targeted as new hunting season begins
A new hunting season is upon us, and as we recently reported, this starts in the late Summer and early Autumn months with hunting’s dirtiest secret: cubbing. But it isn’t just the fox hunts that are pitting their young hounds against young wild animals to get them ready for the main hunting season at this time […]
Out of Control – Albrighton & Woodland Hunt Hounds Kill Deer
Distressing footage passed to the HSA by members of the public shows the Albrighton & Woodland Hunts out-of-control hounds rioting on, and killing, a muntjac deer yesterday during a cubbing meet near Seisdon, Staffordshire.
Late Season Cubbing – What Does It Look Like?
As the cubbing/cub hunting season gets closer to the full day proper fox hunting season it slowly morphs into what looks like the more traditional fox hunting day.
Gone Away: Llandeilo Farmers Are Latest South Wales Hunt To Fold
Great news – the Llandeilo Farmers Hunt has folded! The hunt, based in Carmarthenshire, made the announcement in late August, citing ‘financial pressures’ and changes in ‘land use’ – i.e. landowners are finally turning their backs on this bloodsport.
It’s All Heading South: Yet Another Fox Hunt Gone!
Hunt sabs in the South East are today celebrating the demise of yet another fox hunt. Days after confirmation that Kent’s last two fox hunts had merged into one, the same has now been confirmed for Sussex’s last two packs.
Monday Morning Madness – Cubbing Meets Sabbed
With hunts going out weekdays as well as Saturdays, some as often as four times per week, sabs try to get to as many meets as possible. This morning a number of early morning cubbing meets have been sabbed already.