Category: Sabbing

Direct action saving animals lives – caught on camera

West Wales Hunt Monitor Shot In The Head

West Wales Anti Bloodsports were monitoring the South Pembrokeshire Hunt at Campshill Farm, near Yerbeston, on October 19th 2011. They had been observing the hunt from a distance cross-country, and from a vantage point across fields, see through binoculars that the terriermen are once again digging at a hedge bank or row. They make their […]

Steven Barrett Threatening Hunt Monitors

A monologue from a loyal member of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt (note his little blue lapel badge). Peppered with threats or hints of violence, he still doesn’t succeed in making the monitor cry – “most women would have been in tears by now”. Monitors of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt frequently come across this kind of […]

Northern Hunt Saboteurs Stop Dig-Out Of A Fox

Here sabs are preventing an illegal dig-out of a fox which had been hunted into an earth by the hounds of the York & Ainsty South hunt. Sabs stood their ground – taking several punches from the terrier men in the process. The terrier men eventually backed down and left. They returned to the earth […]

Blencathra Sept 2010

To avoid the hunt breaking the law, concerned observers call the split packs of the Blencathra hounds off the line of a fox. Huntsman Barry Todhunter warns them over the radio not to take control of his hounds. If he was in control of his hounds, he must have been deliberately hunting the fox they […]

Sabotage – a documentary

A documentary about the HSA, direct action and the response of the police. Transcript – follow Read More link  

Sabbing 90s style at the Beaufort

Bath, Bristol & Oxford hunt sabs take the hounds away from the Beaufort hunt using horn and voice calls. WARNING: scenes of aggression and liberal use of the c*** word by the hunt riders. They’ve just got no manners!

Sprays save fox in New Forest

HSa Members monitoring the New Forest Foxhounds realise that no amount of filming will save the fox being chased by a pack of hounds with no huntsmen in sight. They will claim “an accident”, the police will believe them and a life will be lost. We went back to old fashioned spraying and saved the […]

Fox saved from Ledbury Hunt

November 2008: Hounds from the Ledbury Hunt started to rip apart a fox when hunt saboteurs intervened and saved him twice. He was eventually taken to a wildlife sanctuary and nursed back to health. The Hunting Act needs “recklessness” added to it or hunts will always claim such incidents are accidents. If they will hunt, […]