“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 Royal Agricultural College Beagles are the student hare hunt of the Royal Agricultural University based in Cirencester. They have been feeling the pressure recently, with 7 hunting days lost to sabs so far this season. Frustrated, on Saturday they turned to the age-old hunt tactic of intimidation.
The Somerset-based ‘Weston & Banwell with West Somerset Vale Hunt’ deliberately hunted and killed a fox last Wednesday, the 31st January. Sabs from Mendip, Bristol, and Somerset groups were in attendance and saved several other foxes throughout the day.
Last Thursday, Channel 4 News screened an extended report on illegal fox hunting in the UK. One horrifying sequence – supplied to Channel 4 News by the HSA – shows members of the Wiltshire-based Avon Vale Hunt digging a fox from her underground refuge and throwing her to the hounds.
Cumbria and Lancashire Hunt Sab update us on their campaign against foxhunting in the rugged Cumbrian fells, where hunters pursue foxes on foot.
Last night, the nation watched in horror at Channel 4 News once again exposed illegal fox hunting across the UK. One of the most distressing sequences – supplied to Channel 4 News by the HSA – shows a terrierman dragging a terrified fox from her refuge and throwing her to the feet of the pack.
It may be a new year, but hunts are still illegally hunting foxes, using violence and causing road chaos. And some are even invited on to MOD land to do so!
It’s official! The BHSA has confirmed that the Southdown & Eridge Hunt and the East Sussex & Romney Marsh Hunt are merging together! This great news means that there will now be one less fox hunt in the South East.
This season the campaign to close the Cottesmore Hunt has grown stronger. Every fundraiser has been targeted, a week of action was held during the cubbing season as we sabbed them five times during that week and we have been hitting them more often at their midweek meets.
But with this success comes a price and when dealing with the most notoriously violent fox hunt in Britain over the last five years then there was only going to be one outcome. Hunt Violence.
Last September ‘rent a thugs’ appeared at the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt, assaulting Sabs from Weymouth Animal Rights (WAR) and stealing equipment. They have now been charged with assault and theft by Dorset Police.
Respect to Rupert Evelyn for highlighting illegal fox hunting on national news.
Prison for @JustStop_Oil but someone who abuses animal gets a suspended sentence. Something seriously wrong with the judiciary.
𝗚𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗧𝗬! 𝗙𝗢𝗫 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗘𝗟𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗦
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On Saturday we held a demo against the Grove and Rufford Hunt funride fundraiser at the @WelbeckEstate. If like us you are disgusted at the estate hosting a fox hunt please let them know you will be boycotting them tel: 01909 500 211, info@welbeck.co.uk
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