Still sabbing the bastards
18th September 2026 Thirty-two years on from the controversy of the Barle stag, the excuses may have changed, but for the hunted stag the suffering is horribly familiar. More than three decades have passed since the death of the Barle stag became one of the most notorious episodes associated with stag hunting on Exmoor. Yet …
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17th September 2026 Message from Mendip Hunt Sabs Martin Watts and Chris Gibbons, huntsman and master of the Quantock Stag Hounds, have been charged with Hunting Act offences as a result of footage obtained by our sabs and North Dorset Hunt Sabs on 16th March. On this day, the same stag was chased for over …
15th September 2026 "It's horrible. It's just pure animal cruelty," says a farmer in east Kent who found 22 dead hares laid out in rows in a field. "Some of those hares would have been feeding their young which will now die as well." The farmer, who we are calling Sarah, asked not be be …
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14th September 2026 Created by Robert Pownall Closes on 20 February 2027 Introduce legislation in England to make it a specific, standalone criminal offence to intentionally or recklessly use, discharge or attempt to discharge a catapult or slingshot at or towards any animal. Animals including swans, ducks, gulls, pigeons and squirrels have been deliberately targeted …
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17th April 2026 Officers from the police and RSPCA removed roosters, hens, and dogs from properties in West Yorkshire and Lancashire during an investigation into criminal groups involved in illegal bird fighting. When examined by a veterinary surgeon at sites in Bradford and Accrington, some animals were found to be suffering and had wounds consistent …
10th September 2026 A Barnsley man has been handed a suspended prison sentence after he was filmed hitting and stamping on three ducks. 20 year old Owen Raynor, of Greenside Avenue in Staincross, was filmed at the Cawthorne Woods beauty spot attacking the defenceless animals with a large stick. Barnsley Magistrates Court was shown footage …
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10th September 2026 More than two dozen birds have been found dead outside a train station in a suspected case of animal cruelty. Wildlife charity West Sussex Wildlife Protection received a call on September 3 in relation to several dead birds outside Chichester Station. A charity rescuer attended the scene and discovered 25 birds which …
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10th September 2026 At the beginning of this year the Hunt Saboteurs Association was sent some of the most disturbing images we have seen in over sixty years of campaigning against bloodsports. They show a young child having their face smeared with the blood of a freshly slaughtered fox by huntsman Conall McGrath, then of …
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9th September 2026 A terrified stag made a dramatic leap for his life on the 24th August, leaping over hunt supporters who were attempting to prevent him from escaping onto land where the Quantock Staghounds could not follow. Incredible footage of the hunt and the stag’s subsequent escape – albeit temporary – was captured by Dorset Borders …
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8th September 2026 On Thursday 4th June Phillip Kennedy, 48, kennel huntsman of the Stowe School Beagles – the hunt of the prestigious Buckinghamshire private school of the same name – pleaded guilty to the illegal hunting of a wild mammal with dogs contrary to the Hunting Act 2005 at Northampton Magistrates Court. Stowe School …