3rd February 2026
Warwickshire Hunt, whose hounds spilled out onto the B4035 near Brailes and on the Fosse Way, apologised, but accused saboteurs’ actions of spraying hounds and sounding horns as significant distractions for the dogs.
West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs (known as sabs) published a video of the two incidents, which took place last Monday and Saturday.
“It was complete carnage,” said a spokesman. “Hounds running onto the road in front of traffic, running up and down the road between vehicles and the huntsman almost riding someone down on a public road.
“Then we have a paid employee of the Warwickshire Hunt openly laughing at the whole situation and sticking his fingers up. Complete arrogance.
“We have no doubt the Warwickshire Hunt will try to blame us for this, that they will claim they are being constantly harassed and that the video is highly edited. What they seem to forget is that a member of their hunt was convicted of hunting and killing a fox last year – and that they film everything we do yet never back their claims up with footage. It is their employees who were trying to block us from filming what was going on and then laughing about all the chaos they had caused.”
Sam Butler, master of the Warwickshire Hunt, said: “The Warwickshire Hunt, part of the rural community, takes the safety of its hounds and the public extremely seriously and apologises if anybody was inconvenienced whilst we were conducting our lawful hunting activities in the area.
The saboteurs’ spokesman said: “It is pure arrogance that a Warwickshire Hunt employee should think the situation on the road was great fun and then literally sticking his fingers up. That is how untouchable the Warwickshire Hunt thinks itself.
“The Warwickshire Hunt are quite literally laughing and sticking their fingers up at us and the general public. They think it is hilarious that their hounds are running in and out of vehicles on a busy stretch of road. They think it is hilarious that motorists have been inconvenienced. They think it is hilarious that motorists may have been endangered. They think it is hilarious that people were almost ridden down. They think it is hilarious that their hounds could have been hit and killed. They think it is hilarious that Warwickshire Police will do nothing about it.”