Sick Scot trained his four dogs to violently maul wild animals and posed in trophy snaps

27th August 2020 Martin Davidson's dogs were found injured and bleeding in his home and cages outside. A man who trained four dogs to violently bait wild animals has pleaded guilty in court after being investigated by an animal welfare organisation. Martin Davidson kept videos of his dogs viciously attacking foxes and sickeningly posed for …

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Don’t criminalise trespass The Government's manifesto stated “we will make intentional trespass a criminal offence”: an extreme, illiberal & unnecessary attack on ancient freedoms that would threaten walkers, campers, and the wider public. It would further tilt the law in favour of the landowning 1% who own half the country. For a thousand years, trespass …

Horsham District man to appear in court over fox hunting offences

A Horsham District man is to appear in court over fox hunting offences. 21st August 2020 William Bishop, 50, (huntsman for the Crawley & Horsham Fox Hunt) of Kennel Lane, West Grinstead has been summonsed for two offences of hunting a fox with dogs contrary to the Hunting Act 2004, police said. Bishop is due …

Campaigners See An Industry “On Its’ Last Legs” After Yorkshire’s Not So Glorious Twelfth

18th August 2020 The traditional grouse shooting season on the moors of North Yorkshire is turning out to be anything but glorious. Usually by mid-August the upland estates of the north are swarming with the tweed-covered friends of the seventh Earl of Bucktooth accompanied by the dozens of hirelings necessary to ensure a successful slaughter. …

Not So Glorious 12th

Not So Glorious 12th On Wednesday the 12th August over 100 sabs descended on the Northern Peak District to disrupt the Glorious 12th, the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.  Appropriate social distancing measures were observed to ensure we kept ourselves and local communities safe whilst doing everything we could to disrupt the shooters. After …

WTF??? – North Yorkshire moors prepare for grouse shoots

9th August 2020 NORTH Yorkshire's rural communities are preparing for the start of the grouse shooting season under social distancing. From Wednesday, shoots will be taking place on the county's moorlands, with up to 30 people attending each shoot. Gamekeepers will wear visors and facemasks, beaters will operate socially distanced lines to set birds flying …

Third red kite vanishes in grouse shooting area

6th August 2020 ANOTHER protected bird of prey has vanished in suspicious circumstances prompting further concerns they are being killed illegally. Two red kites and one hen harrier, one of England’s rarest breeding birds, have vanished suddenly and unexpectedly in the same area of the North Pennines AONB since last October. The birds, all of …

Badger killers caught after man investigated for different crime

4th August 2020 THE RSPCA has revealed how cruel badger killers were only snared after one of them was arrested for a different crime. Releasing shocking images of the men for the first time, the animal welfare charity has condemned the barbaric cruelty as four men were handed suspended sentences for welfare against badgers and …

3 men fined €1,000 and have gun certs revoked for illegal gull shooting

31st July 2020 Three men were fined €1,000 each and had their firearm certificates revoked after appearing in court charged with the unlawful shooting of herring gulls in Co. Wexford last year. The three individuals Andrew Walsh, Croistoir Reville and Adam Moore all from Co. Wexford – were before Wexford District Court where they were …

Secret urban badger baiting groups operating in woods of Scots towns

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Networks of primitive hunters are getting their vile kicks by watching their dogs maul badgers in woods on the edge of towns in Fife, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire. 27th July 2020 The growing menace of urban badger baiters is being tackled by a team of amateur detectives. Networks of primitive hunters are operating in woodlands on …