Man pleads guilty to beating hedgehog to death with a brick 30/08/2017 A man who beat a hedgehog to death with a brick has been given a suspended prison sentence. Liam Aitken (DOB 6/5/93), of Wood Lane, Wallasey, pleaded guilty at Wirral Magistrates’ Court today (Wednesday 30 August) to one offence under the Wild Mammals …
They will be dead before they are charged
30th August 2017 - YES a year and a bit after they were arrested ALL five people arrested as part of an animal cruelty investigation at a Herefordshire hunt have been re-bailed until next month. Police are investigating reports of animal cruelty at the South Herefordshire Hunt kennels in Wormelow. The first two people, a …
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Badger-baiting pair banned from keeping animals are caught with dogs – Sunday Post
28 August 2017 A FATHER and son banned from keeping animals until 2024 are facing possible action after a number of dogs were seized from them. Authorities removed five lurcher-type dogs from father and son duo John “Mint” Murray, 60, and John Junior, 37, after raiding their home in Larkhall, Lanarkshire. The breed is sometimes …
More images from 12th August 2017 grouse shoot sabs
Another grouse shoot stopped
On Saddleworth Moor on 12th August 2017
Grouse shoot stopped
On Saddleworth Moor on 12th August 2017
Shooting at birds, Beefy? That’s simply not cricket
It would be a little unfair to cast Ian Botham as a kind of pro-hunting Marie Antoinette figure, perusing the nation’s poor, declaring: “Let them eat pheasant.” Or, more precisely, pheasant casseroles and partridge curries made from 10,000 birds shot on Botham’s estate, some of which would be donated to the poor. This was the …
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The fox hunting season has begun
Many thanks to Hounds Off (www.houndsoff.co.uk) for the following article A new season of fox hunting begins as soon as the harvest is in sufficiently to afford access to the land. In many parts of the country this means that during August, and certainly from September, hunts are out in force with horses, hounds and …