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Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) |
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This began in the '60s when a small but determined group of people, sick with the idea of wild animals being used as the tools of a highly distasteful sport. Since then, the organisation has grown and groups have been formed throughout Britain, attending fox and hare hunts every week.
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Taste For Blood |
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What the hunters try to hide from the public is that there have been cases of hunts training young hounds, by digging live fox cubs from their earths and throwing them to the pack in order for them to taste the blood of their future victim. Some hunters build artificial earths to attract foxes they then use as 'bait'. Evidence on video shows a fox being released from a bag and set of to be hunted down, just so hunters can satisfy thier sadistic pleasure. |
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Action, Not Words |
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The organisation aims to help wild animals directly at the very place where they are hounded and harrased for sport - in the hunting field itself. Every week groups of people attend hunts up and down the country, using simple tactics to intervene between the hunters and their quarry, helping hundreds of animals escape this horrific fate, using non-violent methods. |
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How It Works |
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The best campaigning in the world means nothing to the thousands of foxes and other animals chased towards a violent and bloody end in the meantime.
Tactics range from spraying scent markers to disguise the scent line of the hunted fox; to imitating the huntsman's voice and horn calls to get control of the hounds; to sitting on a fox earth to prevent a dig-out. |
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A personal stereo linked to a small amplifier and loud hailer (a gizmo) can be used to play tape recordings of the hounds in cry to encourage them away from foxes and towards sabs. |
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Animal Welfare |
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This is an obvious factor that is overlooked by the hunters on the issue of banning hunting, who consider human rights more than animal rights when thinking about this issue. Easy for them to say when its not them, but the foxes that are being disembowled after being chased by hounds.
An excuse made by hunters is that hounds will be put down if hunting is banned. They do not mention that hounds are killed before they reach old age because they are unable to hunt. Try asking them how many hounds are lost in the field or killed by cars on country roads while passing from field to field during a hunt.
Still don't think foxes suffer through a fox hunt? Why don't you visit this BBC News site to learn about 'Copper' the fox. |
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For More Information - 0845 450 0727 |
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