Category: News

End Of The Spring Stag Hunting Season

Saturday April 29th saw the end of the brutal stag hunting season, which has seen numerous stags hunted to exhaustions and killed.

Slap on the Wrist For the Cotswold Hunt

Hunting’s so-called ‘governing body’ has banned the Cotswold Hunt from carrying out terrier work on hunting days following a ‘disciplinary hearing’.

HSA’S 60th Birthday Merchandise

The Hunt Saboteurs Association celebrates its 60th birthday this year and we are celebrating in style!

One Less Somerset Hare Hunt

Somerset will have one less hare hunt next season, as the West Somerset Beagles are to merge with the Ilminster Beagles to become the Ilminster & West Somerset Beagles.

Royal Artillery Hunt Lies to Channel 4 News

In case anyone missed it Channel 4 News did a great piece about fox hunting on Tuesday evening (18th April), which went out during their 7pm broadcast.

What Next For The Avon Vale? Go Rogue Or Just Go?

The Avon Vale Hunt have had their final appeal rejected by the British Hounds Sports Association (BHSA).

Bolebroke Beagles Kennel Squalor

Neglected hounds, kennels covered in urine, excrement and algae-infested drinking water.

Take Action: Restrict Gamebird Shooting in Wales

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has just launched a public consultation on introducing a licencing scheme for the release of pheasants and partridges for shooting.

Staggering Cruelty in the Quantock Hills

North Dorset and Mendip Hunt Sabs were in action yesterday against Somerset’s Quantock Staghounds. Sabs intervened to save several stags but were unable to stop one poor animal being hunted to exhaustion and then shot.

Curtains For The Courtenay Tracy?

Wiltshire-based mink and otter hunt, the Courtenay Tracy Hounds, could be the next victim of the Avon Vale Hunt scandal. The Courtenay Tracy were kennelled with the Avon Vale at Lacock near Chippenham, but the hounds have been moved following the Avon Vale’s dissolution.

Fox Hunting: The Rules Are There Are No Rules

This week the hunting world has been rocked by yet another scandal after Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch and Three Counties Hunt Sabs and rescued a fox from an ‘artificial earth’ in Cotswold Hunt country.

Cotswold Hunt keep “Bagged Fox” inside Artificial Earth ready to be hunted

Sabs from Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch and Three Counties Hunt Sabs attended the Cotswold Hunt meet at Miserden, Gloucestershire and were able to save a bagged fox that the hunt had stored in an artificial earth.

Hare Illegally Hunted by University Hunting Group

Damning footage taken today by Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs shows the RAC Beagles blatantly hunting a hare

Hunt Sabs Turn Their Attention On The Summer Hunters

With the fox and hare hunting season now coming to an end, hunt sabs are turning their attention to the summer bloodsport: mink & otter hunting.

Fleeing Foxes For Friend Finnegan

On Wednesday the South Shropshire Hunt had their closing meet from Eaton Mascott. Hall. Previously convicted Daniel Cherriman had invited also recently convicted Cheshire Hounds huntsman Ollie Finnegan.

Another Hunt Bites The Dust: The Meynell and South Staffordshire Are Finished

On 3rd March 2023 the Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt packed up for the final time in their 230 year history.

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP Hosts Criminal Fox Hunt

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s links to the disgusting Mendip Farmers Hunt are well documented. His wife, Helena, was a former Hunt Master

Hunt Saboteurs Storm Somerset Hare Hunting Festival!

Hunt saboteurs have disrupted the second day of a secretive, week-long hare killing festival organised by the Somerset-based Ilminster Beagles. On Tuesday, sabs swung into action as around 30 hunters from the host pack were about to set off. On first sight of sabs, the hunters high-tailed it back to their kennels with one of […]

Long Run The Fox! The end of Scotland’s most notorious hunt

Glasgow Hunt Sabs celebrate the end of the Lanarkshire & Renfrewshire Foxhounds. Within a week of the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill being passed…

Lots Of Positive News Amidst The Violence And Criminality

As the foxhunting season lurches towards a dismal conclusion this weekend was another self inflicted disaster for the hunting community.