HUNT SABOTEURS ASSOCIATION
Here is the latest news from the HSA.
This week the hunting world has been rocked by yet another scandal after Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch and Three Counties Hunt Sabs rescued a fox from an ‘artificial earth’ in Cotswold Hunt country.
The poor vixen – who may well have had dependent cubs – was trapped in a sack and stored in a squalid underground chamber. The Cotswold’s terriermen intended to collect the disoriented, urine-soaked animal from the earth and drop her in front of hounds for the enjoyment of the hunt’s paying subscribers.
She wouldn’t have stood a chance.
This outrage comes just weeks after the Avon Vale Hunt were filmed throwing one live fox to their hounds and bolting another from an earth. And almost exactly a year ago, Somerset’s Seavington Hunt were filmed dropping yet another bagged fox in front of their hounds.
Incredibly, all four of these incidents are not only illegal under the Hunting Act 2004, they also contravene hunting regulations going back decades before the ban. The Masters of Foxhounds Association – the original regulatory body of hunting – had a Code of Conduct whose ‘Golden Rules’ stated that a fox could only be hunted in their “wild and natural state.” Under no circumstances could bagged foxes be used, nor could foxes be handled or bolted to be hunted.
Just let that sink in.
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