27th February 2025 The RSPCA has launched an investigation and is appealing for information after the bodies of six foxes were found in seperate locations in Greater Manchester. The national animal welfare charity says it believes the foxes were killed by illegal hunting with dogs. Their bodies were found in seperate areas. Two of the …
Ex-Huntsman Sam Staniland Convicted of Animal Cruelty
26th February 2025 Today, Sam Staniland, the former huntsman of the Essex & Suffolk Hunt, appeared at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court facing six charges related to animal cruelty, including allowing dogs to fight with badgers and foxes. Staniland arrives at court. Image: South Suffolk Hunt Sabs The case was brought by the RSPCA and Suffolk Police …
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Men jailed for badger baiting offences near Richmond
25th February 2025 Two men have been jailed after forcing their dogs to fight with a badger in an act described by a judge as “sick, depraved and unforgivable”. Stephen Rose, 39, and Kenneth Wade, 29, drove to farmland near Richmond, with three terriers looking for badger setts, York Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Lily Wildman …
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Hunt supporter handed a Criminal Behaviour Order
Message from Dorset Police about a Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt supporter. 25th February 2025 A man has been handed a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) following a detailed investigation led by the Dorset Police Rural Crime Team into a report of assault and theft at a hunting incident in West Dorset. Shane Chapman, aged 34 …
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Cruelty United: Shropshire Hunt Hides Body Of Dead Fox
24th February 2025 WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Horrifying footage passed to the HSA shows the lengths fox hunts will go to conceal their illegal activities. The still-warm body is retrieved. A member of the public was filming the United Pack hunting around Corndon Hill in Shropshire on 30th January 2025, when they heard the huntsman’s horn …
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Man arrested after Cheshire Forest hounds shot at during hunt
21st February 2025 ARMED police arrested a man in Cheshire after foxhounds were shot at during a hunt. As a result of the incident, one hound was killed, and another was injured and taken to a vet. It happened in a field off Barn House Lane, in Great Barrow, at around 3pm on Wednesday, February …
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20 years later, they’re still hunting, so we’re still sabbing!
21st February 2025 This report is a collaboration between Devon County, Mendip and Plymouth & West Devon sabs. Twenty years on from the birth of the Hunting Act, sabs are still defending wildlife. They’re still hunting The 18th of February marked the 20th anniversary of the hunting act coming into force, and even after all …
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Oxfordshire: Woman films herself saving fox from hounds
21st February 2025 An animal campaigner has filmed herself saving the life of a fox being chased by hounds through an Oxfordshire wood last week. Lynn Sawyer, a former fox hunter herself but now a member of the Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs, stepped in and used her expertise in hunt staff commands, to call the …
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Terrierman Takedown At The Cottesmore Hunt!
12th February 2025 In a major victory for Northants Hunt Sabs, the notorious Cottesmore Hunt – recently the subject of a live broadcast by Chris Packham – have had their terriers seized by Leicestershire Rural Crime Team. Police carefully check the terrier for injuries. Tuesday 4th February saw Northants sabs in action as the hunt …
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Hunt apologises after hounds run on former Labour leader’s property
7th February 2025 A hunt has apologised after hounds were filmed running through a private garden and orchard co-owned by former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband MP. Householders in Claydon, near Bicester, reported the incident anonymously to animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports. They shared footage of the hounds on the private land …
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