Tag: hunt saboteurs

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, 2019April 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.

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