HSA News

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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