Still sabbing the bastards
Last year 55-year old Donald Forbes beat a fox nearly to death with a golf club for doing nothing more than stealing a biscuit from his belongings at the Peterculter Golf Club in Scotland. According to the Press and Journal, an animal-cruelty officer described it as a "brutal and sickening" attack. Forbes was charged with …
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The results are in. 87% of us think that we should work together to stop the government's plan to shoot thousands of badgers next spring. [1] The government is consulting on their plans now until Sept 20th. [2] That means we could have just six weeks to push them to cancel the badger cull plan. …
A Ceredigion vet has been suspended for five months after regulators found he did not perform bovine TB tests properly and took short cuts. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) said Dewi Wyn Lewis, of Priory Veterinary, Cardigan, was guilty of serious professional misconduct. He appeared before its disciplinary committee to deny the charges. …
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Somerset huntsman loses unfair dismissal case A huntsman who claimed the Hunt Master’s foul-mouthed language in the hunting field and elsewhere was a breach of contract lost his claim for constructive dismissal yesterday. Mark Parsons, kennel huntsman and first whipper-in with Mendip Farmers’ Hunt told an employment tribunal of the tense relationship between himself and …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/19/badger-cull-decision-due Environment secretary expected to green-light killing of creatures within strict limits in bid to protect cattle from bovine TB Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 July 2011 The fate of England's badgers will be decided at lunchtime on Tuesday in parliament, when the environment secretary will tell MPs whether a proposed cull of …
Urgent! The Cabinet is meeting to discuss the final decision on culling of badgers next week. Please email each of the Cabinet Members, Lib Dem members at the House of Commons and the House of Lords this weekend or asap. Also circulate this email to your contacts to show how strongly we oppose the killing …
A former head gamekeeper on the Holkham Estate was given a conditional discharge yesterday after pleading guilty to possessing too much ammunition for a firearm. Nicholas Parker, 41, appeared at Norwich Magistrates’ Court having previously admitted being in excess of his licensed amount of 22.250 ammunition. Two other charges against him were dropped. The court …
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An Annan man who neglected his dog and possessed illegal snares has been fined £1500 and banned from keeping animals for five years. Annan man kept illegal snares and failed to provide veterinary treatment for his dog. Animal welfare charity the Scottish SPCA welcomed the sentence at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Wednesday Carl Conroy, 21, …
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POACHERS have been issued a warning by police after they secured their first prosecutions under the Hunting Act. Two Burnley men were fined for poaching activity in Longridge and Altham. Nicholas Green, 23, of Reynolds Street, Burnley, was fined £400 by Preston magistrates when he pleaded guilty to hunting a wild animal with a dog. …
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A Norwich man who set up a cockfighting training farm at his parents’ home and ran cruel and illegal fights has successfully appealed his five-year ban on keeping all animals and instead has had a lifetime ban on keeping poultry imposed. Trevor Hall, 45, admitted five charges of holding cock fights, taking part in cockfights …
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