Still sabbing the bastards
29th August 2025 A poacher who was seen flying a hawk on the Bolton Abbey estate and other parts of the Yorkshire Dales has been banned by magistrates from keeping a bird of prey or ferret. Michael Watt, 37, from Preston, was found with a live rabbit covered in blood and trapped in a net, …
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Message from Protect the Wild 26th August 2025 We’ve just released a brand-new stop-motion animation, powerfully narrated by Chris Packham. The film lifts the lid on the grim practice of cubbing – also known as autumn hunting – where hunts encircle woodlands and set hounds on fox cubs, tearing them apart in order to train the dogs to kill. …
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Message from North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs's 25th August 2025 Two more convictions for the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Huntsman this week. At a hearing at Weymouth Magistrates Court on the 20th August huntsman George Pierce pleaded guilty to ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) and Assault by Beating. The ABH occurred on the 20th of January when …
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25th August 2025 This week has seen sabs across the country out in force while most people are still asleep. For many hunts, the cubbing season has now started. Sab groups have been keeping an eye on their local hunts and have reported that many of them, who would usually still be ‘hound exercising’, are …
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1st April 2025 TWO men have been fined after they pleaded guilty to hare coursing offences. Kirk Rees, 53, and John Turberville, 45, both from Newport were sentenced over offences committed at Burbage in the Wiltshire countryside on September 12 last year. They both admitted being equipped for searching for or pursuing hares with dogs …
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22nd August 2025 TWO Newport men have jointly been fined more than £2,300 after they were caught hare coursing in Cambridgeshire. John Turberville, 45, and Kirk Gibbons, 54, admitted trespassing with intent to search for or to pursue hares with dogs in Wicken, a village near Soham. Gibbons also pleaded guilty to hunting a wild …
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24th August 2025 A 27-year-old man has been fined more than £2,000 for hunting wild animals with dogs and posting videos of it on social media. Harry Laflin of Thorn Drive, George Green, Slough, pleaded guilty to three counts of hunting wild animals with dogs at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on Friday, August 15. Laflin …
20th August 2025 As cubbing has now started it is a good time to refresh your memory about how you can sab a cubbing meet and any other forms of hunting you might come across. Below is also a wide range of hunting horn and voice calls used during a hunt, all hunts use these …
20th August 2025 Below is how to spot a cub hunt and if you are able sab it. SLAUGHTER AT DAWN Cub hunting is the secret side of fox hunting - it is carried out in the heart of the countryside, as early as six in the morning and well away from the eyes of the …
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