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More #trailhuntlies – this time in the national media

Posted on October 9, 2020October 28, 2020 by Charlie

Several activists (including ourselves) are engaged in a bit of an online ‘debate’ at the moment with the National Trust about their granting of licences to ‘trail hunt’ on their land. Why? Because ‘trail hunting’, as we repeatedly state, is a lie. Thanks to the work of the Manchester Hunt Sabs, the incontrovertible evidence of wildlife crime by the York and Ainsty South Hunt and the disgraceful behaviour by hunt whipper-in Mark Poskitt while ‘trail hunting’ is now saved for posterity in the pages of the Daily Mail Online – and whatever anyone might feel about the Mail’s politics it does have a huge readership, many of whom are avowed ‘animal lovers’…

Guest post | Sabbing the Un-glorious 12th

Posted on August 14, 2020September 9, 2020 by Charlie

We’ve spent much of this week discussing the start of yet another six months of shooting grouse in the uplands. In one article we posted several images from Twitter uploaded by sabs groups, who appeared to have had a very successful day interrupting the killings. The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) have now posted a full series of images alongside an overview of their support for the various local groups who (in some cases) made long journies up to the moorlands. But what’s it like to sab a shoot? To walk up to armed men to stop them shooting the wild birds they’ve paid to kill? One of the sabs in the Peaks has written a guest post that answers just that…

Fox hunting determined to end foxhunting?

Posted on December 31, 2019April 9, 2020 by Charlie

It’s been (with the emphasis on ‘extreme’) an ‘extremely’ bad week for fox hunting. It’s been a bad week for foxes too of course, but fox hunting seems determined to rip itself apart. Shoot itself in the foot. Dump its own corpse in the headlines, writes Charlie Moores…

Is the average fox hunter a psychopath according to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist?

Posted on December 21, 2019December 31, 2019 by Charlie

Here’s a fun Christmas/ Boxing Day game to play. Are fox hunters psychopaths? We’re asking of course, writes Charlie Moores, because of the recent horrific photo taken of a fox being ripped to bits by the Barlow Hunt which was out ‘following a scent trail’ near Matlock in Derbyshire.

Conservative Manifesto and fox hunting

Posted on November 25, 2019October 9, 2020 by Charlie

Boris Johnson launched the Conservatives’ general election Manifesto over the weekend. The focus was on spending plans and Brexit, but one line has seen significant comment from pro-wildlife campaigners. At the bottom of page 43 was the short statement: “We will make no changes to the Hunting Act”. What, asks Charlie Moores, would that mean in reality?

Beds and Bucks Hunt Sabs at Lush Milton Keynes

Posted on November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 by Charlie

Lots of the general public believe that hunting no longer goes on since the ban in 2005 and are both surprised and disgusted in equal measures when they find out the reality of the situation. These are the people we get to speak to when we’re in a Lush store.

Pack of hounds filmed decapitating fox

Posted on November 12, 2019March 4, 2020 by Charlie

In drone footage taken by Harry Blackhurst, of the Kent Hunt Saboteurs, hounds from the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Hunt are seen tearing the head off a fox. It took three minutes. Three minutes while it was pulled apart. Three minutes, writes Charlie Moores, of extreme suffering and pain.

National Trust and Trail Hunting 101

Posted on October 20, 2019October 28, 2020 by Charlie

‘Trail hunting’ was invented by hunts in response to the passing of the Hunting Act 2004 which outlawed the hunting of wild animals with dogs and is widely understood to be little more than a stop-gap allowing hunts to maintain their packs while they work for the repeal of the Act. ‘Trail hunting’ looks and sounds very much like a ‘traditional’ fox hunt. Why, asks Charlie Moores, does it matter that the National Trust supports it?

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