Pro-hunting lobbyists are eyeing up spots on the National Trust Council ahead of the Trustâs AGM in November, with voting now open. Criminal Avon Vale Hunt meet at the National Trust village of Lacock in 2021. Credit: Wiltshire Hunt Sabs Hunting lobby group the Countryside Alliance has encouraged its…
Distressing footage passed to the HSA by members of the public shows the Albrighton & Woodland Hunts out-of-control hounds rioting on, and killing, a muntjac deer yesterday during a cubbing meet near Seisdon, Staffordshire. WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE The footage begins by showing hounds spilling out…
As the cubbing/cub hunting season gets closer to the full day proper fox hunting season it slowly morphs into what looks like the more traditional fox hunting day. Staffordshire Hunt Saboteurs not only saving fox cubs but also hunt hounds. It varies up and down the country as to when the cubbing season…
Great news â the Llandeilo Farmers Hunt has folded! The hunt, based in Carmarthenshire, made the announcement in late August, citing âfinancial pressuresâ and changes in âland useâ â i.e. landowners are finally turning their backs on this bloodsport. What the hunt didnât mention, however…
A new hunting season is upon us, and as we recently reported, this starts in the late Summer and early Autumn months with huntingâs dirtiest secret: cubbing. But it isnât just the fox hunts that are pitting their young hounds against young wild animals to get them ready for the main hunting season…
With hunts going out weekdays as well as Saturdays, some as often as four times per week, sabs try to get to as many meets as possible. This morning a number of early morning cubbing meets have been sabbed already. Nottingham Sabs stick with the South Notts Hunt Nottingham Sabs introduced themselves…
Local sabs are today celebrating confirmation of the fact that there is now just one fox hunt remaining in Kent. The Ashford Valley Tickham (itself an amalgamation of the Ashford Valley and Tickham hunts) are amalgamating with the East Kent with West Street (an amalgamation of the East Kent and West…
On Wednesday December 14th 2022, Warwickshire Police issued a Community Protection Notice (CPN) to the Warwickshire Hunt Limited after repeated anti-social use of public roads in Warwickshire. The hunt immediately put in an appeal meaning the CPN was unenforceable until the appeal had been heard. This…
Yesterday, hunt saboteurs shut down yet another grouse shoot in the Yorkshire Dales. Despite appalling weather conditions, sab spotting teams located a large driven shoot on the Stean Estate, Nidderdale â one of the same shoots that was disrupted on Saturday, the so-called Glorious Twelfth! Sabs confront…
Hunt sabs from across the country have shut down a number of driven grouse shoots on the first day of the season â the so-called Glorious Twelfth. With specialist spotting units out across much of upland Britain from daybreak, it wasnât long before a shoot was seen assembling at Heathfield Moor…
Today at Wrexham Magistrates Court the ex-Wynnstay huntsman Christopher Woodward pleaded guilty to interfering with a badger sett contrary to the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. Woodward was ordered to pay a ÂŁ500 fine plus ÂŁ200 victim surcharge and ÂŁ85 costs. The fine takes into account his guilty…
Autumn Staghunting is now just around the corner, with the Devon & Somerset Staghounds starting the first week of August, and the Quantock Staghounds and Tiverton Staghounds a couple of weeks later. As in cubbing, they are out early to begin with, before the heat of the day dissipates the scent. The…
In just a few daysâ time â on 12th August -, the grouse shooting season will begin again, meaning hundreds of thousands of these moorland birds will be blasted out of the sky. Grouse shooting takes place on the UKâs uplands, with the main areas in England being the Peak District, the Yorkshire…
The red grouse shooting season takes place each year from 12th August â the âGlorious Twelfthâ â until 10th December. The HSA has a longstanding tradition of sabbing the beginning of the season and last year was no different with a number of shoots being shut down. Sabs disrupting a grouse shoot…
In 2022, a gamekeeper in Berrington near Shrewsbury was caught on camera placing poison-laced pheasant carcasses near a release pen. Poison bait is used illegally to target birds of prey, however, poisons left out in the open are non-discriminatory and can be eaten by any wildlife that may scavenge…
Today, East Herts sabs can confirm that the newly amalgamated Puckeridge & Essex Union Hunt has been served with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) by Herts Police. A CPN can be issued to an individual or â as in this case â an organisation whose behaviour causes âa detrimental effect on the quality…
During the summer months, fox cubs can be often seen in the countryside, exploring their surroundings with their parents close by. But those with malevolent intentions are also watching them, noting their location for when cub hunting â or cubbing â begins. Young cubs unaware of the horror the end…
And why the next Government needs to get a grip on illegal hunting. Unless youâre doing a very good job of hiding from the news, youâll know that thereâs a General Election on the horizon. Maybe not in the next few months, but likely within the next twelve. And once again, the hunting lobby is…
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The Avon Vale Hunt are to appear in Swindon Magistrates Court on Animal Welfare and Hunting Act charges. Of the four members that took part directly in the dig out, only two have been charged. Wiltshire Police recently announced that 3 members of the Avon Vale Hunt have been charged with wildlife offences…
Thompson first torments the fox with the end of his shovel, before lifting her out and baiting her to his young terrier. Recently the Hunt Saboteurs Association exposed shocking footage of huntsman, Oliver Thompson, of the Old Berkshire Foxhounds who was filmed by his wife Felicity as they used a terrier…
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