Still sabbing the bastards
23 June 2014 A senior government adviser has described coalition plans to change the way the pilot badger culls are assessed as "an abuse" of the scientific method. Prof Timothy Coulson is concerned the government is considering a less reliable way of assessing humaneness in the cull and numbers of badgers killed. He is also …
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17th June 2014 Gang watched the dog carry out its attack while they claimed they were “rabbiting” in the Cheshire countryside Four men who filmed a dog brutally mauling a fox to death as they stood by and encouraged it have been jailed for animal cruelty offences. The gang - three members of which are …
Leading hunt monitor [not the Heythrop's favourite person] and POWA Associate Judy Gilbert is appeared on Channel 5's 'Angry Britain' on [Thursday, 12th June] at 8pm. She was filmed monitoring the last Heythrop meet of the season and interviewed at home. Watch it via Channel 5 catch-up (link below). The piece starts at 27 mins …
June 11, 2014 POLICE investigating a suspected dog-fighting ring have made three more arrests as part of a lengthy joint investigation with the RSPCA. This morning police and RSPCA officers carried out three warrants under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 at three locations in Devon. The inquiry centres around an alleged dog fighting ring which …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b044p2gc/panorama-undercover-justice-for-sale Watch online via the link above This man defends badger diggers and even wrote a book in 1992 on how to dig for badgers called 'Hunting the Badger'. He appeared on BBC1 tonight in a programme by Panorama called Undercover: Justice for Sale? An undercover Panorama investigation has found some paid expert witnesses prepared …
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Dog fighting has been identified as a growing problem in inner cities. Filmmaker Penny Woolcock engages with people involved in dog fighting and explores attitudes to blood sports. In this Cutting Edge documentary, multi-award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock is reunited with former gang member Dylan Duffus to explore the criminal subculture of the dog fighting world, …
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Friday 6th June 2014 THREE thugs tried to shake a ‘terrified’ cat down from a tree so it could be mauled by their snarling dogs below, a court heard. Joshua Varey, 24, filmed the ‘barbaric’ act of cruelty on his mobile phone with Shaun Mullens, 22, and Paul Ashworth, 49, seen climbing two trees where …
Jun 05, 2014 19:00 By Sara Nichol George Carter appeared in court for a rare charge of lamping with dogs near Ponteland A man has been fined after he was caught illegally lamping with dogs in Northumberland. George Carter sneaked onto farmland at West Houses Farm, in Medburn, near Ponteland, with a group of mates. …
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Posted: June 05, 2014 An application for permission to kill buzzards to protect a pheasant shoot has been turned down by the Government’s conservation agency, Natural England. The operator of a pheasant shoot had submitted the application for a licence to trap and shoot 10 buzzards – a protected species – in the vicinity of …
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05 June 2014 Three Colne men charged with offences against the Badger Act and the Animal Welfare Act have pleaded guilty. Joshua Varey (24), of Duke Street, Paul Ashworth (49), of Hawley Street, and Shaun Mullins (22), of Leach Street, appeared at Pennine Magistrates’ Court yesterday. They will now be sentenced in July. Writing on …