30th December 2023 Devon Hunt Kills Two Hounds On Busy A30 The Hunt Saboteurs Association has received reports of two foxhounds who were tragically hit and killed by cars today on the busy A30, near Okehampton, Devon. Hound is stretchered into the vets in an attempt to save their life. One of the hounds, who …
Hunt Saboteurs Association Tip off Hotline
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Caught Red Handed! Mendip Farmers Hunt Terrier Men Block Active Badger Sett
25th December 2023 Covert cameras have caught the Mendip Farmers Hunt blocking an active badger sett just hours before hunt hounds rampage through the area. Not only is tampering with a badger sett a crime in itself, it also shows a clear intention to illegally hunt foxes. Badger setts are blocked to prevent hunted foxes …
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Canterbury father and son banned from keeping animals after dog injured in fox hunt has wounds superglued
22nd December 2023 A father and son who used superglue to patch up “horrific” injuries to a dog wounded in a fox hunt have been banned from keeping animals. Robert and Jack Mills used the strong commercial adhesive in a botched DIY effort to put the terrier's lip back together after it was maimed during …
Call to strengthen hunting ban after fox is torn apart in garden
22nd December 2023 A Powys resident who filmed a fox being torn apart by hunt hounds in a neighbour’s garden says the experience was horrific and that the law banning hunting with dogs needs to be strengthened. The resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, tried calling off the hounds, but despite screaming and shouting, nothing …
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Hunting Horror Behind The Boxing Day Charade
22nd December 2023 VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED As hunts across the country prepare to gather for their Boxing Day meets, the HSA has been passed horrifying footage of so-called ‘trail hunters’ digging a fox from its underground refuge and throwing it – alive – to a pack of hounds. The video, shot on Christmas Eve 2020 …
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Wrexham: Hunter who let hounds chase fox fined
21st December 2023 A hunter who "deliberately" let hounds chase a fox has been fined. A court heard Chris Woodward led about 50 riders on a trail hunt - where dogs chase an artificial scent - in Lower Wych, in Wrexham county on 14 January. Woodward, 39, huntsman of the Ruabon-based Wynnstay hunt at the …
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Terrier Work – Hunting’s ‘Soft Underbelly’ Exposed Yet Again
19th December 2023 Ex-Essex & Suffolk huntsman, Sam Staniland. was in court last Monday facing six animal welfare charges relating to terrier work. The court heard how Staniland, who already has a conviction under the Hunting Act from his time at the Meynell & South Staffs, failed to prevent injuries and suffering to multiple terriers, …
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Video of fox being thrown to hunting hounds helps convict Oxfordshire man
We have not attached the video to this article due to distressing nature of its contents. 19th December 2023 A former huntsman from Oxfordshire has been convicted after he was caught on video throwing a live fox to a pack of baying hounds to be savaged. Oliver Thompson, of Old Berkshire Hunt Kennels, Farringdon, Oxfordshire, …
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‘Badger baiter’ hit with more than 30 animal cruelty charges
16th December 2023 This is the man due to stand trial on more than 30 charges relating to alleged organised badger baiting. Jason Lee Kennedy appeared in the dock of Enniskillen Magistrates Court last week where the lengthy list of alleged offences were put to him. The 35-year-old is accused of not only causing unnecessary …
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