This is another form of gratuitous violence against wild animals enjoyed by a small section of society in Ontario, Canada; the extremist sport hunters. They are a blood thirsty lot, aren’t they? Without morals and any vestige of sensitivity towards the sentience of animals. Their behavior baffles most people. Penned hunting of wild animals such …
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The answer to the question in the title is a yes and no! A slightly gray answer but a necessary one. The answer, then, is to feed foxes if you want to but don’t feed them too much to the point where they become dependent upon it. This avoids the problem that if you have …
NEWS AND OPINION-UK: This news item has just been released. It shows once again the brutality of foxhunting which has been banned in the UK but which is sometimes circumvented using illegal practices by some foxhunting groups. At this moment this is an allegation please note. But there is video evidence. The Cotswold Fund has …
Cotswold fox hunters accused of burying a lactating female fox alive in prepared hole Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: According to The Times, a very reliable source, Lord Daresbury is a longstanding friend of the present monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms, King Charles III. King Charles and Lord Daresbury go back a long way. When foxhunting was legal in the UK, they rode together on a fox …
NEWS AND OPINION: The Times reports that a 34-year-old man has been arrested following an incident in which, on my understanding, the foxhunter’s horse struck a hunt saboteur. I believe that the photograph below shows the incident as it happened. The arrested man is from Rutland, UK. Leicester police arrested him yesterday “on suspicion of …
Foxhunting saboteur struck by foxhunter’s horse. Man arrested. Read More »
NEWS AND OPINION: Illegal foxhunting is “prolific in UK” so says a police chief. And it is carried out under the guise of it being trail hunting which is legal. This article is about a recent instalment in that saga of illegality by the ‘countryside set’, the countryside people who present an image of respectability …
Illegal fox hunting in the UK is still prolific says a police chief Read More »
NEWS AND COMMMENT: News media reports that six people have been arrested and 22 terrier dogs seized by four police forces in a coordinated criminal investigation believed to be the largest of its kind linked to foxhunting. As I understand it, prior to the Hunting Act 2004, when foxhunting was permitted, terrier men followed the …
This little guy is so impressive. And he has so impressed all who’ve seen the video. He/she must have been born missing two-hind legs. As is so typical of animals they just cope. My God how they cope. It is as if he has four legs. There is no almost barrier to what he can …
Two-legged fox moves with great ease and normalcy Read More »
It gives me a lot of pleasure to feed the foxes who travel down a right of way at the back of my garden. They live in an overgrown garden three houses down. Thank God for the owner of that house. He lives in a dump and his house is falling down but his garden, …
NEWS AND OPINION: This story makes me want to puke. I am sick to death of this sort of disgusting animal cruelty particularly against foxes. I love foxes. I feed foxes. I love them and feed them because they are hated by many people. Someone needs to love them. They are vulnerable to hostile, ignorant …
Hunt for killer who shot foxes in the head with an air rifle Read More »
Mark Pearson, 64, of Child Okeford, near Blandford, has been found guilty in the Weymouth Magistrates’ Court of the illegal hunting of a fox with dogs. He is the director of a concrete business and joint master of the South Dorset Hunt. He wasn’t aware that he was being filmed by hunt saboteurs. At the …
Millionaire businessman huntsman guilty of illegal fox hunting Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT-LONDON, UK: Louisa Connolly-Burnham is an actress who has featured in hit shows such as Call the Midwife. She has a successful TikTok channel about a female fox she calls Phil who she has befriended. The friendship struck up pretty easily as the fox approached her. At the time, she was young and …
Louisa Connolly-Burnham befriends a fox and she loves the relationship Read More »
Yes, it is legal to own a fox in the UK. The reason is as follows. The fox is specifically “excepted” meaning not subject to the rules regarding the keeping of dangerous wild animals as set out in two pieces of British legislation namely: The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, which should be read in …
Are you like me? Do you hate to see foxes with mange? Foxes polarise people. Many people hate them and treat them as pests and other people like me love them. We see them as vulnerable animals partly because some people hate them. I can’t understand why people hate them. They live a difficult life …
I am an anti-foxhunting person. I think it’s disgusting. Many people would agree with me. I admire the hunt saboteurs. In this video you see them facing women and men on horseback, members of the Ledbury Hunt taking part in the usual Boxing Day activity (2021). And a certain amount of chaos was generated with …
Chaos at Ledbury Hunt on Boxing Day as hunt saboteurs face riders Read More »
