Chris Packham Slams Cruel Lake District Fox Hunt!

HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of weeks. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition features articles on

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

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

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.

The Dorset-based Park Beagles have folded, according to pro-hunt lobby group the Countryside Alliance. As with the Sandhurst & Aldershot Beagles , which we reported last week, the Park Beagles have become a so-called ‘hunt club’, which means they have given up their hounds and staff and will therefore continue