What sticks in the mind…
It was a quiet and distress-free filmshoot at the housing estate, meeting really pleasant and civilised people who showed us where the hounds had run… also commenting that some of the press reports were inaccurate as there was no mother with pram. Two things stay in my mind. One, that this incident only got significant [...]
Off again tomorrow…
Off again tomorrow to interview the witnesses of the hunt havoc in a housing estate a couple of weeks ago… a pack of hounds running through a residential street with the residents out and about. This time it was claimed to be a hound training exercise. We shall see…how a training exercise ends in a [...]
A small dead fox …
Every time I mention the film there is another story – this time it was the memory of my neighbour’s daughter, as a little girl finding the small fox curled up in the outside lavatory, stone dead. This was after the hunt had been trying to come onto the family’s property and had to be [...]
More havoc – a housing estate gets it…a few days after the hounds crushed by a train
After the Beaufort hounds crushed by a train as they chased a fox across the mainline railway on New Year’s Eve, today’s news is a pack chasing a fox through a housing estate in Droitwich, leaping over a six foot fence and racing around in and out the driveways and past the shocked residents pushing [...]
David Cameron leaves by the back door…
After a gruelling day last week visiting a goat farmer in Devon whose business is being ruined by the local staghunt, and seeing her desperate, worn face as she described what they did – sending their pack repeatedly across her land and traumatising the goats who have stopped producing milk…laughing as they killed deer near [...]
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Boxing Day melee…
AMP paid a visit to Lacock in Wiltshire to the Avon Vale Boxing Day meet… very crowded but managed to show hunt master Jonathan Seeds some photographs of foxes after foxhounds had got them, at which point he decided he didn’t want to be interviewed after all and his friends tried to run me over [...]
The level of fear…
People have no idea of the level of fear surrounding hunting…. I have heard so many stories now from people who dare not speak out because they fear the power of the hunt….stories going back many years but also up to the present, under the hunting ban. You might wonder what country we are in, [...]
And another…plus a blooding
Have just got another report from last week. Children out with a local councillor, planting Christmas trees in a nature reserve in Yorkshire when the hound pack in full cry chase a fox across the car park and into the reserve, watched by the horrified children. Another accidental fox hunt – statistically frequent it seems [...]
Another horror story…
Every day there is a new one… as soon as people know what you are involved with, they tell you something. Today it was someone unconnected with anything to do with hunting or the film… when I mentioned the film she immediately told me that at three or four years old she was in the [...]
