Peterborough City Council Ban Hunting on their Land
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 10th December 2020 Last night, at a full council meeting, Peterborough City Council voted to ban hunting on their land. The final count was 30 in favour of the resolution, 26 against and 4 abstentions. The resolution stated: “This Council resolves to do everything within its legal powers to prevent […]
Middleton Hunt Hounds Killed on Road During Illegal Hunt
At least 3 hounds were killed and more injured at the Middleton Hunt yesterday when the hunt took them across a busy main road. The huntsman took the hounds across a main busy road, with no spotter to check oncoming traffic on an upcoming bend. After the incident, one distraught huntsman said “why did we […]
Belvoir Hunt Kill Foxes in Grounds of Nursing Home
Yesterday The Duke of Rutlands’ hounds, The Belvoir Hunt, chased and illegally killed three foxes. The hunt met at The Wolds Farm near Holwell, Leicestershire. Initially sabs were able to take the hounds off huntsman John Holliday in two locations as he encouraged hounds to hunt a nearby covert and hedge. Unfortunately […]
Serial Fox killers Strike Again
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 3rd Dec 2016 The Old Surrey, Burstow and West Kent Hunt illegally chased and killed a fox today despite the efforts of hunt saboteurs who were seconds away from saving it. The hunt met at the Spotted Dog Pub, Smarts hill, South West of Tonbridge, Kent. Huntsman Mark […]
Fox Illegally Chased and Killed by the Atherstone Hunt
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 15th November 2015 On Saturday 14th November the Atherstone Hunt were filmed chasing and then killing a fox at Grendon Fields Farm, Leicestershire by West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs. Sabs saw the fox being chased closely by hounds. It stopped and looked to its left and then to its right and […]
Paramedic Hunt Saboteur Treats Injured Hunt Master
Hunt saboteurs association Press Release 8th March 2015 At Yesterdays meet of the Old Surrey, Burstow and west Kent Fox Hunt near Cowden, Kent, hunt master Ian Hamson lost consciousness after his horse fell and rolled on top of him. A member of Croydon Hunt saboteurs who is also a trained paramedic provided critical […]
Fox Killed By York And Ainsty Foxhunt After Meeting At Home of David Cameron’s Father In Law
On Saturday the 21st February the York and Ainsty South Foxhunt met at Sutton Hall, North Yorkshire, home of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, David Cameron’s father in law. Hunt saboteurs were present to monitor the hunt and were horrified when, in the middle of the afternoon, eight of the hunts hounds chased and killed […]
More violence at the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt
8th February 2015 On Saturday the 7th February Dorset Hunt saboteurs attended a meet of the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt who met at Sherborne Castle, home of Lord Digby. From the start of the day the saboteurs were harassed by a large group of masked up hunt supporters who stole a hunting […]
The Drawn-Out Death of a Fox by Fife Foxhounds
Brutal and disturbing footage of a fox being dug out of a badger sett and shot can now be made public as the police investigation has finished. The incident occurred at a meet of the Fife Foxhounds on the 8th […]
Nigel Farage attends Boxing day meet of violent huntsman – again
Members of the Hunt Saboteurs Association from the South East attended the boxing day meet of the Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent fox hunt who met at Chiddingstone Castle, Kent. The huntsman, Mark Bycroft, has two convictions for assault on hunt saboteurs as well as stating pre-ban that he would still hunt foxes despite […]
The Grim Reality of Hunting
As Boxing Day looms the Countryside Alliance publicity machine will roll into action peddling a sanitised, harmless version of hunting to the media. The reality is somewhat different and involves illegality and a desperate desire to kill by the hunting community. A vivid example of this occurred on the 17th December at a meet of […]
Hunt Saboteurs Retrieve Body of Illegally Hunted Fox
The Albrighton and Woodland Foxhunt illegally killed a fox today despite the best efforts of hunt saboteurs to save the animal. The saboteurs were able to retrieve the body and the incident has been reported to West Mercia Police. The hunt met at the Robin Hood Inn, Drayton Road, Stourbridge and then proceeded to […]
Illegal Hunt Protected by Police as they Savage Deer
On Saurday 25th October the Surrey Union Foxhunt had their opening meet at Gosterwood Manor ,Forest Green. They moved quickly from the meet to the Lukyns estate near Ewhurst in an effort to lose the hunt saboteurs who were in attendance. Just before one o’clock the hunt were drawing a small wood when the hounds […]
Terrierman Angry Andy Guilty of Assault
Andy Bull, terrierman of the Meynell & South Staffordshire Fox Hounds, has received a police caution for assaulting a hunt saboteur from Manchester in February 2014 at Kingstone, Staffordshire. Sabs were intervening as the hunt attempted to illegally chase a fox when Mr Bull became aggressive, grabbing a sab around the throat and attempting to swing […]
Hunt Saboteurs support lone monitor at violent foxhunt
On Saturday the 15th March a group of over 40 hunt saboteurs attended the Sinnington Hunt’s final meet of the season at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire. The hunt was targeted in response to the violent assault of a lone hunt monitor two weeks earlier which left him requiring x-rays. His camcorder was stolen and his mobile phone […]
Travesty of justice
Press Release 13th March 2014 On Boxing day 2012 at the meet of the South Down & Eridge fox hunt, the driver of the South Coast Hunt Sabs was the subject of a vicious and sustained attacked by supporters of the hunt. The groups Land Rover windscreen was smashed, the door bent back on […]
Hunt Saboteur receives Payout after Police Assault
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release 23rd February 2014 On 25th February 2012 members of West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs and Northampton Hunt Saboteurs attended a meet of Otis Ferry’s South Shropshire Foxhunt at the Mytton and Mermaid public house in Atcham near Shrewsbury. The assault The attached film shows the totally unprofessional and biased approach the police took during this […]
And They Say We Don’t Care About People!
At 3pm, on Saturday 8th Feb 2014, hunt saboteurs from West Sussex, South Downs, South Coast and South London Wildlife Group (SLWG) were sabbing the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and cowdray Hunt and came across a road traffic collision on a country lane. A qualified First Aider from SLWG checked for casualties and then, assisted by […]
100 Saboteurs Descend on Dartmoor to mark 50th Anniversary of the Hunt Saboteurs Association
On Boxing Day 1963 four people sabbed the South Devon hunt in what was the first official act of sabotage by the Hunt Saboteurs Association. On Saturday 18 January 2014, just over 50 years later, over 100 hunt saboteurs from across Southern England and Wales descended on Dartmoor National Park to sabotage the same hunt. […]
The True Face of Hunting
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 30th December 2013 On Saturday December 28th hunt saboteurs from Yorkshire attended a Pony Club meet of the York & Ainsty South Foxhounds at Escrick Park. Three foxes that were deliberately hunted were aided in their escape by the sabs through the course of the day and, as the […]