HSA News

Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen the horrifying video – shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs – of the Coniston Foxhounds digging

Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people were horrified by the video shot by Lake District Hunt Sabs showing the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox

On Saturday 01st of November the Portman Hunt held their opening meet at Manor Farm, Manston, and within ten minutes of leaving the meet hounds

You may have seen recently that police forces all over the country have been posting on their social media accounts about how their rural crime

This morning, Wednesday 29th October, the criminal Fitzwilliam Hunt killed a fox while hunting near Keyston in Cambridgeshire. They met at Manor Farm and spent the morning hunting nearby with sabs in attendance. At approximately 9:30am hounds flushed a fox from a small wood close to the road just southwest of the meet. After a short chase the hounds caught and killed the fox. Sabs had no chance to intervene.

HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of

From north to south, the last few months have seen many meets of hare-hunting beagle and basset packs sabbed.

Between August and October or November these packs are ‘leveret hunting’ – a secretive pre-season practice where young hounds are entered into the pack and trained against young hares, akin to the better known ‘cubbing’ season carried out by fox hunts.

Last Friday, two East Northants Hunt Sabs were found not guilty of aggravated trespass at St Albans Magistrate Court. The court case followed events at the closing meet of the Cambridgeshire Hunt with Enfield Chace Hunt on March 8th, 2025.

Last Friday, pro-bloodsports lobby group, the British Hound Sports Association, achieved the impossible – they managed to make their showpiece National Trail Hunting Day even more ridiculous and irrelevant than last year!

The HSA had long ago dubbed the event ‘Farcical Friday’ but even we were surprised by its inept organisation and embarrassing turnout.

On the day that hunters gather around the country to promote the smokescreen of ‘trail hunting’, the HSA has been passed a ground-breaking, year-long investigation into a single artificial earth used by the Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (Wynnstay) Hunt.

This Friday sees the second National Trail Hunting Day, dubbed Farcical Friday by the HSA. The event has been cobbled together by pro-bloodsports lobby group the British Hound Sports Association in an attempt to present ‘trail hunting’ as a legitimate activity.