“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 father and son have been banned from keeping animals after pleading guilty to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal at Folkestone magistrates on 20th December.
Just before Christmas, huntsman Chris Woodward was convicted of illegally hunting a fox and ordered to pay a fine & costs totalling £1,375.
The Hunt Saboteurs Association has received reports of two foxhounds who were tragically hit and killed by cars today on the busy A30 today, near Okehampton, Devon.
Covert cameras have caught the Mendip Farmers Hunt blocking an active badger sett just hours before hunt hounds rampage through the area.
These are the desperate cries of a Powys resident as they filmed hunt hounds tearing a fox to pieces in their neighbour’s garden.
Two days after the HSA released video of the Avon Vale Hunt throwing a live fox to hounds, we have been given permission to share horrifying footage of a hunt in Powys on the afternoon of Wednesday 22nd November.
News coming in is that one of the two males arrested following the assault and robbery of hunt sabs is none other than Kieron Fookes, twin brother of recently convicted wildlife criminal Aaron Fookes, the former whipper-in of the Avon Vale Hunt.
As hunts across the country prepare to gather for their Boxing Day meets, the HSA has been passed horrifying footage of so-called ‘trail hunters’ digging a fox from its underground refuge and throwing it – alive – to a pack of hounds.
Following the recent conviction and plea hearings of a number of huntsman and hunt terriermen, the HSA is making a further appeal for sight of several sick videos hunting videos referenced in court.
In particular, we are interested in a video that shows former Avon Vale Hunt master Stuart Radbourne and his fox-baiting mate Oliver Thompson throwing a live fox to the hounds in front of hunt supporters – including a child – on Christmas Eve, 2020.
Ex-Essex & Suffolk huntsman, Sam Staniland. was in court last Monday facing six animal welfare charges relating to terrier work.
The court heard how Staniland, who already has a conviction under the Hunting Act from his time at the Meynell & South Staffs, failed to prevent injuries and suffering to multiple terriers, a foxhound, and two lurchers by causing, and failing to prevent, dogs from fighting with foxes and badgers.
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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