Still sabbing the bastards
6th December 2025 Meeting Simon Russell, the chair of The Hunt Saboteurs Association (hunt sabs) for the first time, was a proper laugh. Simon is a veteran activist and for over 40 years has been on the front lines fighting the UK’s cruel hunting lobby. His fight isn’t just for animal lives, it’s against the law, the …
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Message from Protect the Wild 30th November 2025 In this late November/Early December hunting update hunts have been busy terrorising schools and local communities across the UK. Tragically, the Beaufort Hunt was caught on camera killing a fox close to the grounds of Gloucestershire’s Westonbirt School, later that week they hunted a fox through a …
26th November 2025 “Terrier work, this is our soft under belly.” This was a quote from Mark Hankinson, former Master of Foxhounds Association Director, Hunting Office Executive Director and former Master of the Wilton Hunt. Recent photo of masked up terrier men at the Mendip Farmers Hunt. Hankinson said this during a Hunting Office webinar, during …
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The man, riding out with the South Durham Hunt, appears to become frustrated as his mount bucks and turns, as footage shows him lashing out with his left hand and his crop making heavy contact with the horse. 21st November 2025 Nov 2025 A police investigation has been launched after a huntsman was captured on …
21st November 2025 A police probe is underway after footage appeared to show a huntsman smacking a horse across the head with his riding whip on a County Durham hunt. The incident took place in Foxton, near Sedgefield, on Saturday, November 8, with video captured by 'North East Hunt Monitors' widely shared online since. Durham …
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10th November 2025 The Hunt Saboteurs Association has produced a booklet titled ‘Witness The End Of Hunting’ which outlines our plans to stop hunters in their tracks or – at least – get them into court with a high chance of prosecution. With the government’s consultation on hunting to begin “early in the new year” …
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4th November 2025 The Hunt Saboteurs Association and its affiliated groups have been actively opposing all forms of hunting with hounds since 1963. This means we have over sixty years’ experience of studying hunting in the field and developing tactics to sabotage it. Chris Packham helps to launch our campaign. As such, we are the …
28th October 2025 Are you based near Manchester? Do you have free time on Saturdays? Join Manchester Hunt Sabs! We’re holding a recruitment day very soon. If you’d like to come along, DM us on Instagram or Facebook for details. And keep your eyes on our socials over the next few weeks for more updates. …
28th October 2025 HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of weeks. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition features articles on a huge …
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 …