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I don’t know how to thank the two of you enough for saving these wild stags from a terrible fate.
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Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
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The real reason why the @usairforce is running away from @RAF_Fairford has been spotted planning its attack. #ThreeIsTheNumber #IYKYK
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Not to mention the massive high powered rifle being wielded in a public place. This happened between Weymouth and Osmington Mills and has of course been reported to the police. Please complain to Dorset Council, their rangers are responsible for the path
dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/message…
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Help us congratulate our buddy @DankerJeff who finally caught up with "Slugger" who was very visible during the summer months but disappeared after velvet came off. 🦌👊
📸@Buckventures
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Prolific #HuntCriminals #AnimalAbusers in court
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📣It has been a busy few days in the courts!
Very recently, several individuals associated with 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 hunts that have either been found guilty, charged, or had a plea hearing ahead of trial in relation to illegal hunting & associated offences.
𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦
Firstly, we announced that the huntsman and hunt master of the Quantock Staghounds have both been charged with illegal hunting, in relation to an incident in which a stag was killed on March 16th, 2026.
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙨 (top, left)
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙂𝙞𝙗𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙨 (middle, right)
Watts also faces a further charge relating to a seperate incident on April 23rd, 2026. Both are due to appear at Taunton Magistrates Court on October 22nd, 2026.
You can read about the Quantock charges here 👉huntsabs.org.uk/quantock-hun…
𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗣 𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧
Next we wrote about the plea hearing on the 15th September 2026 of three members of the Mendip Farmers Hunt who are charged with illegal hunting in relation to an incident in which a fox broke cover and was chased and killed on January 17th, 2026.
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙨 (middle, left)
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙢𝙢𝙖 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙧 (bottom, right)
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 (Top, centre)
All three pleaded not guilty and are due to face trial at Taunton Deane Magistrates Court on the 15th September 2027.
Read about the Mendip Farmers Hunt charges here 👉huntsabs.org.uk/mendip-farme…
𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧 / 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦 & 𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗠𝗢𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧
Then there is the Eggesford Huntsman who had pleaded guilty, when a drone captured the hunt digging a fox out of rubble before the hounds gave chase on Boxing Day 2025.
𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙅𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨 (middle, left)
Marles was fined £500 and order to pay £285 in costs.
𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝘽𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙡, 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣 (top, right) terrier-man for both the Eggesford Hunt and the Spooners & West Dartmoor Hunt, was also convicted following two seperate incidents involving hunt saboteurs.
Bounsall was convicted of intentional disorderly behaviour and careless driving. The driving incident occurred at an Eggesford Hunt meets and the public order offence was at a Spooners Hunt meet, in November 2025 and January 2026 respectively. He was fined £1,500 and ordered to pay a further £685 in costs and victim surcharge.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
Of the above cases, the footage supplied for all the above charges have came from hunt sabs.
Footage that have lead to these actions was supplied by several HSA affilated groups including North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs, Mendip Hunt Sabs, Devon County Hunt Saboteurs, Plymouth & West Devon Hunt Sabs, and also footage from Wildlife Guardian.
You can join the HSA for just £20 a year, and help us support the sabs doing the legwork to end hunting - week in, week out, in the fields 👉huntsabs.org.uk/product-cate…
Dancing Kitten retweeted
I mean imagine carrying the same gun into the woods for forty years, every season leaving another mark in the stock. then, as your hunting days begin to close, you hand it to your grandson just as his are beginning.
and he starts adding his marks beside yours.
Dancing Kitten retweeted
I am a wildlife rescuer from the UK, I just spent four hours tracking a fallow deer with its lower jaw shot off, it's tongue was hanging from its head which was black with flies, we fortunately caught it and humanely euthanized. I don't care if the meat tastes better 1/2
Dancing Kitten retweeted
When a medieval peasant died, the lord of the manor came to the cottage and took his best animal. Then the priest came and took the second best.
The first was called heriot. The second was called mortuary. Both were the law of England for centuries.
A typical villein family owned one cow, perhaps two, a pig and a few hens. The cow was the milk, the butter, the cheese and a calf every spring. It was nearly all the animal food the family ever saw.
So in the week a widow buried her husband, the bailiff led the cow away. The priest who had just taken the funeral took whatever came next. If there was no second animal, he took the best cooking pot, or the bed.
The manor court rolls record it line by line. A name, a death, and then: heriot, one cow, value 6 shillings.
In 1349, when the plague killed half their tenants, lords took in so many heriot animals that they could not find buyers for them all.
The peasant did own livestock. He owned it briefly, on loan from a system that reclaimed it at every event in his life. A tenth of his newborn animals went to the church. His best beast went to the lord at his death.
Anyone who says the medieval peasant ate plenty of meat has counted the animals in his yard. Count where each one ended up.
Dancing Kitten retweeted
Every three years in medieval England, the king's men went from cottage to cottage cutting the toes off the peasants' dogs.
It was called lawing. The dog's forefoot went on a block of wood, a chisel was set across three claws, and they came off with one blow of a mallet. The Charter of the Forest, 1217, records the correct method: three claws of the forefoot, but not the ball.
A dog with three toes missing cannot run down a deer. That was the entire purpose. A third of England was royal forest, every animal in it belonged to the king, and a poor man's dog was the one piece of hunting equipment he could not be stopped from owning. So they left him the dog and took its feet.
If the inspectors found yours intact, the fine was three shillings, about a month's wages. Before 1217 they simply took your ox.
No law ever told that man he could not eat meat. The law took his bow, his dog's toes and his right to the wood, then left him entirely free to work out the rest for himself. He worked it out. He ate oats and beans, and he raised children who ate oats and beans.
That is how it is always done. Meat is never banned for the poor. It just becomes, by one sensible regulation after another, impossible to get.
Count the sensible regulations being drafted for your dinner this year.
