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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/389d10ee-3511-11ed-838f-27529d647dcb
Hunters shoot exhausted stag after 3-hour pursuit with dogs
16th September 2022
The campaigners said that the video was “the clearest we have ever seen” of a hunt ending and said that it showed the Hunting Act needed strengthening.
The Quantock Staghounds were tracked for three hours as they chased the stag across the Somerset countryside. The animal came to a standstill at a fence line in a farmer’s field, where one of the huntsmen dismounted and approached on foot. The hunter got within yards of the stag before shooting it with a rifle and then slitting its throat.
A group of at least eight hunters joined the kill. A crowd soon gathered.
Investigators for the League Against Cruel Sports followed the hunt when it began chasing the stag with hounds at 4pm on Monday.
They filmed the kill from Halsway Hill on the A358.
Nick Weston, head of campaigns at the league, said: “The poor animal was cruelly chased for ‘sport’ for three hours before being cornered and shot, clearly weak and exhausted. This . . . clearly demonstrates why the government needs to strengthen the Hunting Act. Hunting with dogs is still going on in the UK despite the ban, with the hunts cynically abusing exemptions in the hunting laws. It’s time for change.”
LEAGUE AGAINST CRUEL SPORTS
The Hunting Act 2004 outlawed the hunting of mammals with dogs, but it allows hunters to use up to two dogs to locate wounded deer, to flush out prey from undergrowth to be shot “as soon as possible”, or for “observation or study of the wild mammal”.
The league investigators told The Times the hunts usually had a pack of dogs following in trucks from which to replenish the two dogs as they tired. Anti-hunt campaigners question why it is necessary to chase on horseback for hours to identify and shoot injured deer or to conduct research.
Devon and Somerset are home to the UK’s only three deer hunts — the Tiverton Staghounds, the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Quantock Staghounds. In 2020 a judge said an illegal hunt was caught on camera but dismissed charges against two Quantock Staghounds members because they could not be identified in the evidence.
A spokesman for the Countryside Alliance said: “The Quantock Staghounds operate perfectly legally using exemptions in the Hunting Act and play a crucial part in managing what is one of the most successful red deer herds in England.”
I sincerely hope it goes back on them. They are a disgusting are a bunch or over privileged to much money and time to waste. These people need stopping. This cannot go on. Animals were NOT put on this earth for human twisted entrainment. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
These evil parasites are the scum of the earth they are cowardly evil bastards that want putting down. I would like to see this filth if confronted with a large wild animal ie lion by themselves with no guns they would be petrified I wish something like this would happen to them and show them what fear is. This cruelty should be banned any kind of hunting is disgusting and cruel the wild life should be left alone they have as much right to a happy free life as we do. What can we all do to make this happen?????????????