Fox cubs ‘fed’ to South Herefordshire hunting hounds
A man and a woman have admitted causing unnecessary suffering to fox cubs at a hunting kennels.
Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard the cubs were “fed” to hounds belonging to the South Herefordshire Hunt.
Julie Elmore, 55, of Brynarw estate near Abergavenny, and Paul Reece, 48, from Itton, in south Wales both admitted two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Three others deny the same charges.
Opening the case against the hunt’s master of hounds Paul Oliver, kennel maid Hannah Rose and terrierman Nathan Parry, prosecutor Simon Davis said: “The unnecessary suffering involved the killing of fox cubs, effectively feeding the animals… throwing the fox cubs into the kennels of the fox hounds, thereby killing them.”
The court was told a hidden camera was placed at the kennels by the Hunt Investigation Team after it received information animal welfare legislation had been allegedly breached in May 2016.
Mr Oliver, was caught by the covert camera as he prepared to feed live fox cubs to the dogs, the court heard.
Mr Davis alleged the camera provided “significant” evidence against Mr Oliver, including footage which he claimed showed him lifting fox cubs out of a cage and entering the kennels.
Mr Parry, 40, also of Brynarw estate, denies four charges of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Mr Oliver, 40, and Ms Rose, 30, both of Sutton Crosses, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, also deny four counts of animal cruelty.
Sara-Lise Howe, acting for Ms Rose, said: “She was not involved and did not cause the death of the foxes.
“She simply didn’t know about it.”
Clive Rees, representing Mr Oliver, submitted there was no evidence whatsoever to show he killed two of the foxes which are the subject of the charges.
Mr Oliver claimed to have used an axe to kill foxes and denied throwing the animals to the hounds.
Elmore and Reece, will be sentenced at a later date.
Posted on May 31, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This petition is only open for CANADIAN citizens to sign; but it is very important – your support is required and please crosspost.
CALL-TO-ACTION! Just three weeks left to sign this Government of Canada e-petition calling for a stop to live air transport of horses for human consumption. The petition is sponsored by Beaches-East York Liberal MP, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, and closes on June 19.
BACKGROUND INFO: In 2018, over 7,000 horses were air shipped from Canada to Japan for slaughter for human consumption.
Up to 3 to 4 horses are loaded into crates smaller than a single horse stall, frequently in contravention of Health of Animals Regulations and International Air Transport Association (IATA) standards.
Further, these beings are having to endure flights that are 10.5 to 13.5 hours long, during which time (and for the additional hours spent for ground transportation, loading into crates, and loading and unloading crates from planes), they have no access to food or water. Please help. This needs to stop.
Posted on May 31, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
“we had to give the child away, the animal was allergic”!
Morality is indivisible.
What we would not do with humans, we must not do with animals.
The right to life, freedom, protection must belong to all kinds.
A just social order requires respect and protection of all animal species.
Posted on May 30, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Petition “End The Cage Age” breaks the critical mark and writes history for the animals!
The Association Against Animal Factories (VgT, Austria) and 170 other clubs from across the EU have already collected more than 1 million signatures in just 9 months to end the caging.
One million EU citizens for ending the caging Petition “End The Cage Age” breaks the critical mark and writes history for the animals!
VGT campaigner Georg Prinz is pleased: “One million signatures are a huge milestone and we are proud to work with so many other clubs and initiatives on behalf of the animals, but the fight for the cages is far from over.
We will continue to collect signatures until September to ensure that the newly elected European Parliament understands how important this concern is to its citizens!
Together we demand: End The Cage Age – let’s end the cage age! “
And I mean: Yes! It’s a wonderful initiative with great results already.
But I immediately thought of our other great campaign the “8hours Campaign” against the long animal transports.
At that time, we had collected 1.2 million signatures, it was the largest number ever to have collected for a petition!
Today, the animals still suffer in the truck for days.
And the responsible persons of this useless club (EU) can not do anything.
We need to learn something from this, we must accompany this one million signatures with a strategy and finalize a Plan B, should the EU Commissioners ignore this spectacular number of signatures and stand on the side of the agrarian mafia again.
But most of all, we have to be optimistic.
What once did not work, maybe this time works!
Posted on May 30, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Received anonymously (see above, or click here to view video from the action):
Can you imagine, spending your whole life, being detained, in your own shit? Can you imagine, that all you know about life, is a concentration camp, violence and suffering? Can you imagine, seeing your fellow inmates falling, agonizing and dying? Can you imagine, never have seen the sky, sunlight, a tree or a blade of grass? But that all of this would not matter at all, because others, by billions, will be born for the same purpose. We, have imagined them discovering daylight, fresh wind, life. And so we have stopped imagining, and started acting. We broke in and opened the prison doors. Prisons for the most innocent beings… And we will keep doing it.
From now on, let’s OPEN all the cages and all the farm doors!
And I main...It is the fascist conviction of the human species that maintains the slavery of the animals, that they are there to serve us as food, clothes, entertainment, test objects.
The legalization of this privilege, by a criminal system, of eating whatever pleases everyoneleads to a two-class justice system, to the exploitation of the weaker par excellence.
Therefore, the message of the animal liberator goes above all to the meat eaters, to the perpetrators who give this second-hand murder order:
No cooperation with the hangmen, no cooperation with the slaves owners.
Australia: Live Exports Demo – Saturday 1st June 2019 – North Freemantle.
Australia: Live Exports Demo – Saturday 1st June 2019 – North Freemantle.
Firstly, with the result of the recent federal election, the appointment of HUGE live export fan, Bridget McKenzie to Minister of Agriculture position and at least another three years of the live sheep trade, we urge you to please commit to renewing your membership if it has lapsed, or join if you are not already a member. From as little as $5 per month via GiveNow – that’s just $1.17 per week and is of the greatest value to us in helping fund our ongoing campaign. Or you can pay an annual membership fee via our website.
Regarding this Saturday’s public outreach at Tydeman Rd. Please check staus on Facebook event page on Friday night and radar (see below) on Saturday morning.
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