“There’s A Brace!” – Avon Vale Hunt Filmed Throwing Two Foxes To Hounds

With the autumn ‘sport’ of cub hunting resuming recently the HSA became aware of a covert in Great Habton, North Yorkshire, known by locals as ‘Bone Wood’ due to the unusually large number of animal corpses scattered around the place.

Over the last week, sabs, moorland monitors and wildlife lovers in the South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire area have marked the end of the Ecclesfield Beagles.

The campaign to close the Cottesmore Hunt has now reached five seasons. That is five seasons of sabbing them on every Saturday and a hefty number of their midweek meets.

Distressing footage passed to the HSA by members of the public shows the Albrighton & Woodland Hunts out-of-control hounds rioting on, and killing, a muntjac deer yesterday during a cubbing meet near Seisdon, Staffordshire.

As the cubbing/cub hunting season gets closer to the full day proper fox hunting season it slowly morphs into what looks like the more traditional fox hunting day.

Great news – the Llandeilo Farmers Hunt has folded! The hunt, based in Carmarthenshire, made the announcement in late August, citing ‘financial pressures’ and changes in ‘land use’ – i.e. landowners are finally turning their backs on this bloodsport.