“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.
The new Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act will come into force today, Tuesday October 3rd 2023. The new law will replace the current Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, ironing out the loopholes left which have allowed hunts to continue to brutally kill wildlife.
With the autumn ‘sport’ of cub hunting resuming recently the HSA became aware of a covert in Great Habton, North Yorkshire, known by locals as ‘Bone Wood’ due to the unusually large number of animal corpses scattered around the place.
Over the last week, sabs, moorland monitors and wildlife lovers in the South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire area have marked the end of the Ecclesfield Beagles.
The campaign to close the Cottesmore Hunt has now reached five seasons. That is five seasons of sabbing them on every Saturday and a hefty number of their midweek meets.
The chairman of the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) William Waldorf Astor III (that’s Viscount Astor to you) has written a piece for Horse and Hound on ‘trail hunting’. The HSA takes a look at some of his claims.
Pro-hunting lobbyists are eyeing up spots on the National Trust Council ahead of the Trust’s AGM in November, with voting now open. Hunting lobby group
A new hunting season is upon us, and as we recently reported, this starts in the late Summer and early Autumn months with hunting’s dirtiest secret:
Distressing footage passed to the HSA by members of the public shows the Albrighton & Woodland Hunts out-of-control hounds rioting on, and killing, a muntjac deer yesterday during a cubbing meet near Seisdon, Staffordshire.
As the cubbing/cub hunting season gets closer to the full day proper fox hunting season it slowly morphs into what looks like the more traditional fox hunting day.
A couple of the foxes saved yesterday from the Cattistock Hunt. Report to come.
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Whilst we all know what hunts are using quad bikes for – the terrier boxes on the front along with digging equipment being a dead giveaway –
Saboteurs outnumbered the South Notts hunt today as we stopped their attempts to flush out foxes around the Barnstone area. A sheep farmer shouted at us about what the damage the fox does and how the hunt do pest control. We thought they were supposed to be hunting trails 🤔
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