29th July 2025 Reports of hare coursing, criminal damage, and dangerous driving caused disruption and concerns in communities across Cambridgeshire in January. Now, 25 people have been charged. Police have charged 25 people as part of an ongoing investigation into hare coursing and violent disorder that took place across Cambridgeshire earlier this year. The charges …
Dressed to Kill
30th July 2025 The Decline of the Hunt Uniform The HSA’s fashion correspondent reports. In the Deeply Conservative World of Hunting, What You Wear Matters. the Traditional Dress Code Is Highly Fetishized, with Hunters Agonising over the Correct Number and Position of Buttons That Should Adorn the Hunt Coat. Having a Ribbon on the Back …
More than two dozen charged in hare coursing probe
29th July 2025 Twenty-five people, including a 13-year-old boy, have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation into hare coursing and violent disorder. Dozens of 4x4s were reported to have descended on fields and villages across the Cambridgeshire Fens on 25 January. At the time of the incident, the force's chief constable, Nick Dean, …
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Mink Hunting In Decline
28th July 2025 General decline of mink hunts Mink hunting with packs of hounds started in the late 1970s. It has its roots in the summer bloodsport of otter hunting, which also took place across the country’s water courses during the summer months. In 1978, the otter was granted protected legal status, despite the best …
Cheshire Forest Huntswomen deny failings after hounds killed
25th July 2025 TWO huntswomen from the Cheshire Forest Hunt have denied failing to protect their hounds after two were shot and another was killed by a train while out 'trail hunting'. Elizabeth Gorse, of Sugar Lane, Frodsham, and Teryl Knowles, of Seven Sisters Lane, Ollerton, stand charged by Cheshire Police under the Animal Welfare …
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BEWARE VERY VERY DISTRESSING VIDEO
WTF???????????????????? BEWARE VERY VERY DISTRESSING/UPSETTING VIDEO BELOW Message from UK Animal Cruelty Files Animal Abuser at Large | Colney Heath, St Albans AL. Four red setters die after being shut in a hot car while their sorry excuses for owners allegedly played golf. On Saturday 12 July a man and woman were filmed parked up …
Northamptonshire hunt staff plead not guilty at Northampton Magistrates’ Court hearing
22nd July 2025 Staff of a Northamptonshire hunt have appeared at court charged with hunting a wild mammal with dogs – alongside the company for which they work. At the hearing before a three-person panel at Northampton Magistrates’ Court, Pipewell Foot Beagles Ltd’s huntsman Philip Anthony Saunders, 44, of Irchester, and the whipper in, Rachael …
Now that’s what I call a sentence
4th February 2025 Georgia man sentenced to nearly 500 years over dog fighting A man from Dallas in Georgia has been sentenced to 475 years in prison for facilitating dog fighting and abusing animals. Vincent Lemark Burrell, 57, was given the longest possible sentence after being found guilty of 93 counts of dog fighting and …
Northumberland pair held deer and filmed it being mauled by dogs in ‘appalling’ cruelty
15th July 2025 David Pringle and Lennon Gibbinson have been given suspended sentences. Two men restrained a deer and recorded videos as it was mauled by dogs in "appalling" acts of cruelty. David Pringle and Lennon Gibbinson were both handed suspended prison sentences after a court heard of their horrific treatment of the restrained animal. …
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Guga hunt tradition returns after licence granted 16th July 2025 A team of hunters will go to the small island of Sula Sgeir to kill young gannets A licence for Scotland's last surviving hunt of young seabirds has been granted for the first time since 2021. For centuries, thousands of gannets were killed for their …