Still sabbing the bastards
Sun 21 Oct 2018 ‘If people saw foxes as a companion and not a pest, they might not let others kill them in cruel and unusual ways,’ says Sydney Fox Rescue president Several times a day, the dingoes let out a collective howl that seems to make the chill in the air bite that much …
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21st Oct 2018 George Eustice’s boast that government strategy is working called untrue by vets and animal specialists Government claims that the controversial badger cull is reducing tuberculosis rates in cattle have been undermined by a group of leading vets and animal welfare experts who have shared data that, they say, confirms it has made …
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Very sad day for wildlife today as sabs report the tragic death of three lovely animals BEWARE THE REPORTS BELOW ARE VERY DISTRESSING the Essex Hunt kill a fox - https://www.facebook.com/Southcambshuntsabs/posts/2216624921949685 The Easton Harriers killed a Chinese water deer whilst cubbing this morning - https://www.facebook.com/norfolksuffolk.huntsaboteurs/posts/2046171115403610 Badger shot in Staffordshire just as sabs arrived to stop …
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18th October 2018 A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been detected on a farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, officials have revealed. A statement issued by Scottish authorities said "precautionary movement restrictions" had been put in place at the farm, while further investigations took place to identify the origin of the disease. …
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14th Oct 2018 US grammy nominee Holly Lamar (real name Mary Holladay Lamar), 51, pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Magistrates Court on Friday to two offences relating to the illegal possession of a wild peregrine falcon. Derbyshire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit raided her home in Ashover Road, Old Tupton, Chesterfield last December where …
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12th Oct 2018 Daniel Lingham, 65, was reported to police by a member of the public who saw him “head-to-toe in camouflage gear” picking eggs up off the ground at Cawston Heath in Norfolk, Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard. Colette Harper, prosecuting, said officers attended and stop searched him on May 21. “He disclosed he had …
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October 10 2018 A hunter who shot dead a 10-year-old girl's "beautiful" pet Shetland pony - claiming he had mistaken it for a fox - has been ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £500 compensation to the owners. Samuel McLean of Greenville Avenue, Ballymoney, Co Antrim, was sentenced at Coleraine Magistrates …
8 October 2018 Two members of a Borders hunt have gone on trial accused of breaching Scotland’s fox hunting legislation. 41-year-old Timothy Allen and 28-year-old Shaun Anderson, from the Buccleuch Hunt, are charged with deliberately hunting a fox with a pack of dogs. The alleged incident is said to have taken place near Whitton Farm, …
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8th October 2018 Jane Goring, 57, is facing a private prosecution for assault in East Sussex She thrashed activist up to 17 times around the head during an ugly row Police found there was not enough evidence to proceed and dropped case But now Goring faces two criminal charges through a private prosecution A huntswoman …
07 October 2018 ANIMAL protection officers have launched a wave of raids targeting Scots hunting foxes, badgers and deer with dogs. A Sunday Post investigation found social media pages on which hunters post pictures of themselves with their dogs and animals they have killed. Raids in Fife earlier this month, following an 18-month investigation, saw …
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