Cotswold Huntsman Alan Morgan convicted of racial abuse

Protect Our Wild Animals has today been informed that, following incidents at a meet in February and complaints to the police, the Huntsman of the Cotswold Vale Farmers Foxhounds has pleaded guilty to racially abusing a hunt sab, fined £100 and ordered to pay £200 compensation to his victim. As Morgan’s offence was, apparently, fully [...]

Hounds in Newport housing estate rampage

Thirty hounds went rampaging along the A41 and a Newport housing estate after a huntsman lost control of the dogs. Organisers from the North Shropshire Hunt said they were at a loss as to why the hounds ran off on Saturday. The dogs ran across gardens belonging to residents of Deer Park Drive before scampering [...]

Police appeal for information after animal lovers see evil animal cruelty

Two distraught animal lovers, who saw a dog ripping at the throat of a badger when they stumbled upon illegal baiting, have urged the public to reveal the men responsible. Plucky Gemma Baldwin chased after the three evil badger baiters when she caught them in the act, while her friend, Zoe Atkinson, alerted the police. [...]

Seven guilty of badger cruelty

A GANG of six men and a youth were found guilty of hunting and killing badgers in what was described by an RSPCA inspector as the worst case of animal cruelty he had seen in 20 years. The men, all but one of them from York, were all found guilty of offences under the Badgers [...]

Just brilliant

http://hsa.enviroweb.org/index.php/sabbing/325-northern-hunt-saboteurs-stop-dig-out-of-a-fox Northern Hunt Saboteurs Stop Dig-Out Of A Fox Monday, 12 December 2011 Here sabs are preventing an illegal dig-out of a fox which had been hunted into an earth by the hounds of the York & Ainsty South hunt. Sabs stood their ground – taking several punches from the terrier men in the process. [...]

Badger Trust ‘very disappointed’ over cull decision

The Badger Trust has been advised by Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for the Environment, that she has decided to proceed with the two pilot culls to determine the efficacy and humaneness of the free-shooting of badgers. Her statement was expected on 15th December but was made after Prime Minister’s Question Time today, Wednesday 14th [...]

Prolific egg thief jailed for third time

An egg collector has been jailed for stealing hundreds of eggs from birds including a golden eagle and osprey. More than 700 eggs – stolen from nests in Scotland and Essex – camouflage clothing, climbing equipment and maps of nesting spots were found at the home of Matthew Gonshaw in Bow, east London. Gonshaw, 49, [...]

Fox clubbed to death on a garden patio

‘Clubbed to death on a garden patio’: Family claim they watched ‘barbaric’ huntsman kill fox in neighbour’s garden By Andrew Levy 12th December 2011 Relaxing at home with his wife and friends, Mick Heath’s peaceful afternoon was shattered when a pack of hounds burst into his neighbour’s garden. It soon became clear that the dogs [...]

Norfolk estate gamekeeper pleads guilty to animal cruelty charge

A Norfolk gamekeeper was told today he could be sent to prison after admitting causing a fight between two dogs and a fox. Christopher John Carter, 49, of The Burrows, in Gayton Thorpe, pleaded guilty at King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court this afternoon to causing the fight between the animals in July 2009. Appearing alongside Carter [...]

Policeman’s badger horror

By Kate Liptrot A POLICE officer has described the disturbing scene he discovered when investigating reports of badger baiting on remote farmland near York. Sgt Paul Stephenson found the body of a dead badger and badger foetuses after police were informed that a gang of men had watched badgers being ripped apart by dogs on [...]