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Cruel.
Senior huntsman guilty after feeding fox cubs to hounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL8_KHw2oCU
Huntsman found guilty of animal cruelty after activists' secret filming
A senior huntsman has been found guilty of animal cruelty after activists secretly filmed him apparently preparing to throw fox cubs to a pack of baying hounds.
Animal rights campaigners claim the conviction is significant because it shows a master of hounds “blooding” the animals – training them to kill foxes – 15 years after the ban on hunting with dogs was introduced.
Though the footage does not show what happened inside the kennels complex, the prosecution at Birmingham magistrates court claimed he was blooding the hounds.
A team of four or five were involved in setting up and monitoring the cameras and in May 2016 they found what they claim was evidence that fox cubs were being taken from their mothers and thrown live into the hounds’ kennels.
Oliver, 40, and kennel maid Hannah Rose, 30, both of Spalding, Lincolnshire, were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs. District Judge Joanna Dickens convicted Oliver of four counts of animal cruelty and Rose of three counts of the same charge.
The pair and two others who pleaded guilty were due to be sentenced later on Monday.
“These cubs were taken from their mothers and thrown live to the pack of hounds, to instil in the dogs a bloodlust for hunting. This barbaric training ritual is used so that the hounds are more effective in the next season.”
Julie Elmore, 55, of Abergavenny, south Wales, and Paul Reece, 48, from Chepstow, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs.
Martin Sims, the director of investigations at the League Against Cruel Sports and former head of the police’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: “We believe the incidents show that hunts are clearly still hunting as the poor fox cubs were thrown into the kennels to give the hounds a taste for blood.
“The barbarity of these incidents is sickening.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/huntsman-found-guilty-of-animal-cruelty-after-activists-secret-filming/ar-AACFl5p?ocid=spartandhp
Oliver was captured in harrowing footage throwing the animals for his dogs to ravage before their carcasses were later found dumped in a wheelie bin
Minutes later he is seen emerging from the kennel and dumping the dead animal into a commercial bin before spraying it with a liquid
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7124195/Senior-huntsman-guilty-animal-cruelty-charges.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL8_KHw2oCUHuntsman found guilty of animal cruelty after activists' secret filming
A senior huntsman has been found guilty of animal cruelty after activists secretly filmed him apparently preparing to throw fox cubs to a pack of baying hounds.
Animal rights campaigners claim the conviction is significant because it shows a master of hounds “blooding” the animals – training them to kill foxes – 15 years after the ban on hunting with dogs was introduced.
Though the footage does not show what happened inside the kennels complex, the prosecution at Birmingham magistrates court claimed he was blooding the hounds.
A team of four or five were involved in setting up and monitoring the cameras and in May 2016 they found what they claim was evidence that fox cubs were being taken from their mothers and thrown live into the hounds’ kennels.
Oliver, 40, and kennel maid Hannah Rose, 30, both of Spalding, Lincolnshire, were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs. District Judge Joanna Dickens convicted Oliver of four counts of animal cruelty and Rose of three counts of the same charge.
The pair and two others who pleaded guilty were due to be sentenced later on Monday.
“These cubs were taken from their mothers and thrown live to the pack of hounds, to instil in the dogs a bloodlust for hunting. This barbaric training ritual is used so that the hounds are more effective in the next season.”
Julie Elmore, 55, of Abergavenny, south Wales, and Paul Reece, 48, from Chepstow, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs.
Martin Sims, the director of investigations at the League Against Cruel Sports and former head of the police’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, said: “We believe the incidents show that hunts are clearly still hunting as the poor fox cubs were thrown into the kennels to give the hounds a taste for blood.
“The barbarity of these incidents is sickening.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/huntsman-found-guilty-of-animal-cruelty-after-activists-secret-filming/ar-AACFl5p?ocid=spartandhp
Oliver was captured in harrowing footage throwing the animals for his dogs to ravage before their carcasses were later found dumped in a wheelie bin
Minutes later he is seen emerging from the kennel and dumping the dead animal into a commercial bin before spraying it with a liquid
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7124195/Senior-huntsman-guilty-animal-cruelty-charges.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490