“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.
A piece like this can never do justice to the week-in, week-out efforts of sabs who venture out in all weathers to face down the hunters. We can’t cover, for example, the 58 hunt meets that Nottingham sabs have attended this season, nor the 55 times Salisbury Plain sabs went out to protect the wildlife of their beloved Plain. What we can do is focus on just a few highlights from the last full hunting season before a much-anticipated General Election.
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.
𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘
Nothing humane about it ignore the name
These things are lethal and should never have been invented.
Smashing an animals skull and then resetting to do again to the next animal. (Most don’t get killed outright going by reading reviews online)
Why are you doing nothing to stop this blatant exploitation of loopholes @ASPolice ? Clearly not research or observation-it’s arrogant criminals sticking up two fingers to both the spirit & the letter of the law @Matt_Longman_
Which side are you on? Vote Seccombe out on the 2nd May
Quantock Staghounds hunting on @nationaltrust Vinny Combe as usual. Video of quad going up and down looking for tracks of the hunted stag and riders on point kicked off. Shortly afterwards a shot was heard and cheering. Did they kill on National Trust land? With @wlguardian
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