Native hunter gatherers express their opposition to Bloodsports
Sarah Pettygoose of the First Nation People of Ontario, Canada is sending a specially made fox sculpture for us. The First Nation people have put it through their ceremonies so that it can carry strength and protection for the hunted foxes of England – it will soon be on its way here. Ms. Ward: I [...]
The end of another cub-hunting season the beginning of the new Minority Pastime …
We are nearly at the end of another cub-hunting season and the hunts have been seen out there doing it … the sabs are out there trying to stop them … the monitors are out there trying to film them. And Minority Pastime is setting out to bring this information to the bigger public. David [...]
Two descriptions today of the Tedworth Hunt. One is in the article by Robert McCrum in The Observer and the other given to me by a sab who sabbed them yesterday. Using a day out with Tedworth as his platform McCrum vaunts in colourful detail the pleasures of hunting which include apparently spontaneous sex in [...]
Society Will Become Less Equal
Our film, Minority Pastime, asks David Cameron why he wants to make hunting legal again. Whilst the Conservative Party remain committed to repealing the Hunting Act 2004, re-legalising hunting wild mammals with dogs and condoning – if not championing – cruelty as a ‘sport, the official response to questioning this intention is to say that [...]
Emergency Budget
The ConDem budget has reaffirmed two things – the Lib Dems are not to be trusted and Tories don’t care about anything or anyone outside their own constituency. Minority Pastime has always felt that the Conservative’s committment to Repeal of the Hunting Act is about ‘Power’. Widespread and determined cruelty is the res…ult, but this [...]
Update
With less than 2 weeks to the election Minority Pastime is slowly making its mark. Our main aim was always to put this issue on the agenda for public debate. It’s bubbling just under the surface now and where the mainstream media have covered it they have shown some understanding of, and quite a lot [...]
Apology to the Ghelligaer Hunt…
We have just been informed that information published in a blog on this site inaccurately identified the Ghelligaer Hunt as being in the area when the hunting hound became suspended on iron railings. We do not wish to have any inaccurate information on this site or to attribute responsibility wrongly, and offer the members of [...]
Three things
Three things. One: going about my life I suddenly saw them, the local hunt in their lorry – redcoats hunched in the front, hound faces pushing through bars. Off to a meet. The immediate anxiety. Where? I worry all day because they are close enough. Two: the monitor we interviewed last week has had her [...]
It was a strange moment…
Looking out over a beautiful stretch of the Dorset countryside… and wondering, where are they now?… peering into the hills for a tell-tale glimpse or moving figures on horseback, or hounds spreading over a field. That you know they are there, doing what they are doing, changes everything, even when you can’t see them. Eerily, [...]
‘We endeavour to hunt with the permission of the landowner….’
Last week the Warwickshire hunt invaded private land dedicated to wildlife and conservation…where foxes live. What will be the effect on the foxes? Will they leave their safe place? The hunt Master says ‘we endeavour to hunt with the permission of the landowner…I am not being flippant when I say I am genuinely sorry he [...]
