This is extraordinary and sad to be honest. Thirty-eight dogs ran into Grenada Lake in Mississippi when chasing a deer. But they were not meant to do that as they were fox hunting. Deer hunting is illegal in Mississippi while fox hunting is legal (see …
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) is arguing that humanely culling female dear within season has been identified as a key way to reduce overall populations of the animal. And the SGA wants the burgeoning population of deer in Scotland to be better utilised to provide …
A German dynasty, the Henkels, own an estate in the Kaisertal, a valley a few miles south of the German border. It was voted the most beautiful place in Austria. They’ve owned this estate since the 1930s. The Henkels are collectively worth about €15 billion …
The Times reports that Tops Day Nurseries, which has four thousand children in its charge across 32 nurseries in Hampshire and Dorset, has decided to feed its children wild-shot venison, which I understand is a first. They are working in collaboration with Eat Wild, which …
A fawn snuggles up to a sport hunter’s target practice deer thinking that it is her mother as her real mother has been shot by the same deer hunters!! A picture which tells a story of human misbehavior on a gargantuan scale. Nothing makes me …
Ali Hussain, writing for The Sunday Times, is fed up with muntjac deer and he has suggested that they are shot and eaten. But he admits that there are problems with the suggestion. Firstly, he tells us that he bought a home in Norfolk close …
This video is an example, for me, of the desire for peace overriding the desire to do violence and it was instigated by the animal not the human! Instructive to humankind. Perhaps Putin could learn something from this video. The deer wants a peaceful coexistence …
There is a danger that the new Conservative government might overturn the current Hunting Act which bans hunting with dogs. Or they might in some other way weaken the current laws which restrict the hunting of deer and foxes. The hunters find ways to circumvent …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Background info: In the UK, the Hunting Act 2004 (the ‘Act’) outlawed the hunting of mammals with dogs. However, there are exemptions, and it is these exemptions which provide loopholes to unscrupulous fox and deer hunters in their countryside pastimes. The Act …
