Yesterday this fox was one of SIX hunted by the Fitzwilliam Hunt. With the hunting community desperately clutching at straws trying to deny the fact that for over 20 years they've been using "trail" hunting as a smokescreen, hunts such as the Fitzwilliam are doing everything in their power to prove their own side wrong. A recent news report quoted Worcestershire Hunt Master Adrian Ward as saying "We're in the open countryside...but we do put everything in place that we can." We wonder what he would say about six foxes being hunted during one cub hunting meet? Hunts and their 'governing bodies' are not working together, they are a contradiction in terms, and still after twenty plus years cannot get their stories straight which only further exposes their lies.

Yesterday, two Quantock Staghound hunters were up in court over the killing of this stag, with one of them facing a further charge. This happened in Rachel Gilmour MP’s constituency of Tiverton & Minehead. Gilmour recently wrote in defence of trail hunting in Hounds magazine, describing it as “forming part of a long and richly woven rural social fabric that binds farms, villages and families together through shared work, ritual, and memories” What a load of romanticised guff. 🙄💩 Dressing up the sort of barbarism witnessed here, and more recently at the Quorn Hunt on Friday, in flowery language about rural traditions doesn’t make it less barbaric. This is cruelty, not culture and she should be ashamed. Rural communities overwhelmingly reject this barbarism in line with the rest of the country. Join AAS Action Against Staghunting on Saturday for a peaceful march: 11am, Saturday 24 October, Tiverton bus station. Phoenix Lane, Tiverton EX16 6LU.