Tanatside Tumbleweed

What is the best type of hunt? A disbanded one.

Last year, the Tanatside Hunt, which traditionally set off from Welshpool on Boxing Day, disbanded citing “increasing urbanisation” of their hunt country as the reason they could no longer carry on.

One year on, a local sab decided to pop along and see the former kennels Trawsgoed Hen Farm, Guilsfield, Welshpool.

It was eerily quiet, but the silence and lack of hunting hounds was a welcome experience. Nature is taking over, and it was a delight to see swallows and sparrows in and out of the buildings and even wildflowers adorn grassland tracks once mown and kept. Deer and foxes were evident in the nearby landscape, now safe from being hunted for pleasure.

As for that “increasing urbanisation” …well, you can see just how ‘urbanised’ it is in this image of the vast open countryside they operated in.

Of course, the real reason this hunt lost land was because of the exposure of the Hunting Office “smokescreen” webinars. One key member of the hunt explained on social media that the loss of land was “a direct result of the almighty cock-ups” and “brainless arrogance” of the Hunting Office.

With many more hunts falling by the wayside in England, Scotland, Wales and even Ireland over the last year – including two more hunts just last week – it is clearer than ever the end is coming for hunting wild mammals with dogs.

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