“There’s A Brace!” – Avon Vale Hunt Filmed Throwing Two Foxes To Hounds
Footage passed to the Hunt Saboteurs Association shows members of the Wiltshire-based Avon Vale Hunt throwing and bolting foxes to their hounds.
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Footage passed to the Hunt Saboteurs Association shows members of the Wiltshire-based Avon Vale Hunt throwing and bolting foxes to their hounds.
With the 2023/24 fox and hare hunting season coming to an end, it’s clear that despite being banned from using huge swathes of land across the country, hunts are still doing just that.
When the fox hunting old guard were scrambling to explain what they’d be doing after the Hunting Act came into force into 2005, they were keen to make sure everyone knew just how pointless “trail hunting” was, and how urgently they wanted to get back to the good old days of killing foxes legally.
I don’t really have ambitions , I don’t like generating expectations, but there are two things that I would like to see happen before I pop my clogs. One, the end of the fur trade . . . and two, an end to fox hunting. From my perspective they are both vile. Small word vile, but powerful, and it completely encapsulates my contempt and loathing for those who deliberately perpetuate animal cruelty.
Over the weekend hunt sabs got the latest glimpse into the dying world of the hare-hunting basset and beagle packs.
Police Chief Matthew Longman called for a review of the Hunting Act in a recent Channel 4 exposé into Warwickshire Police’s secret protocol with the local hunt. ‘The Hunting Act is going to need reform, and to close some of these loopholes which are continually being exploited,’ said Longman.
Last Wednesday, sabs from Calder Valley, Sheffield and East Yorkshire Coast hit the very elusive Catterick Beagles. Sabs were shocked to find the meet was hosted by Aysgarth School, a posh prep school in Newton le Willows, North Yorkshire.
Sabs from eight different groups joined forces last week to sab the annual Two Bridges Hunt Club meet on Dartmoor.
Here at HSA Towers, we are used to hearing hunters come up with delusional theories, far fetched stories and generally bonkers alternative realities. However, last week their fantasist-in-chief the factually challenged Mr Tim Bonner, came out with an impressive pack of fibs on his personal venting platform, the Countryside Alliance blog.
Warning: this post contains distressing images The disembowelled body of a fox was found in an unnamed wood near Hankerton in Wiltshire on 7th February 2024, just
𝗪𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗦
With the 2023/24 fox and hare hunting season coming to an end, it’s clear that despite being banned from using huge swathes of land across the country, hunts are still doing just that.
We found the Holme and Colne Valley Beagles trying to hunt hares in Ossington, Nottinghamshire today. A couple of blasts on our hunting horn had hunt support peering through binoculars to see us, then drudging back to their cars to make a run for it. Hare hunt stopped, job done!
Wildlife criminals so worried about being caught in the act that they scurry back home as soon as they see sabs.
We agree this is disgusting, but it's also a real wildlife crime when your friends in white pants with a pack of beagles kill hares - why do you never condemn them?
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