Exclusive footage shows how foxes are being illegally hunted by hounds

[@prometheus23c]

The laws in the UK seem to only apply to us plebs. Everyone else gets to do very much what they want.

[@geek211]

come on, everyone knows, there is no law for the rich.

[@OAC184]

Yep

[@viiviqa]

If the consequence of breaking a law is a penalty fine… it’s intended to be obeyed by poor people.

[@Davywatson121]

If it is illegal, jail them, all of those present

[@michaelprice3040]

You’d think a continued breach of the law would land you in jail but a guess “huntsman” get special privilege.

[@StyledObject]

they're wealthy, nothing will happen to them

[@hexusG4Z]

Aye joint enterprise for the poors, nod and a wink for the good old chaps.

[@cheebacheeobusiness3893]

I quess it's the same as usa border "problem"... It isn't actually a negative issue rather than most welcome situation. Illegal immigrants are cheap labour - slaves. +40 years it has been unsolved 😂 This fox hunting is a similar "problem"... Elite hobby that will probably never end. We live in lies...

[@owencooper2756]

You sweet sausage rich people don't go to jail 😂

[@susanb4816]

They should all have been charged for pulling that fox out

[@Justin-jh4ym]

How is torturing an animal like that a "sport".

[@LouisaClare]

Horse racing, dog racing, rodeos, bullfights, cockfights, all blood sports. Almost all are legal. Humans are atrocious

[@muirislandjim453]

Tory Fun

[@alanfrost7696]

The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible. Oscar Wilde

[@bodhid]

Exactly. The question is would any of these ‘cosplayers’ (I won’t call them huntsmen as they’re not hunters and they aren’t men) want to act like real men and get into a real sport? How about stepping into an octagon for some MMA? Are you an enough to bleed and take severe punishment yourself toff?

[@ProcyonMantis]

They seem to be sick people who hate innocent animals, as do the hounds. Something abit ritualistic about it too in my opinion...

[@titteryenot4524]

_The English country gentleman galloping after the fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable._ (Oscar Wilde)

[@willvincent4829]

Damn that man really does have a quote for everything

[@julierogers1155]

GREAT quote, from the wickedly brilliant Oscar Wilde!

[@bodhid]

Took an Irishman to spot the depravity of the English upper class

[@willvincent4829]

@@bodhid Tbf calling out the depravity and hypocrisy of the western world particularly on the world stage is kind of Irelands thing and it's a good thing they do you just have to look at how they've spoken up about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza to see how important it is to have such a voice on the world stage.

[@BigDaddyButthead90]

​@willvincent4829 when conscription for ww2 started, they all left England and went home

[@NorthDorsetHuntSaboteurs]

"The fact is one side is trying to stop something illegal and another side is intent on perpetuating some illegal activity" -Inspector Oliver Fisher

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

What is illegal animals doing what animals do?

[@RankinMsP]

​@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied😒 Troll

[@alpinion323]

​@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasappliedthe law is clear: read it

[@dominicmoloney2121]

​@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasappliedif someone deliberately released a Lion on your family would you still be making this ridiculous argument I wonder? 🤔

[@berniv7375]

Yes, And the police, instead of doing their duty, appear to be aiding and abetting in criminality. How can any honourable person participate in such a heinous act of cowardly barbarity?

[@jenniferroe297]

Meanwhile in reality the police will often cover up for the hunters and bully saboteurs

[@michaelfourie345]

Now, I wonder what would happen if a thief snatched a bag and was being chased by the police on foot...and I tripped the policeman up so that he failed to catch the thief. Same principle - police blocking sabs from disrupting a crime. Under the law that makes them an accessory to the crime - does it not? (I am not a lawyer).

[@carbiegirl5899]

THANK YOU CHANNEL 4! for once again putting this digusting and illegal activity in the spotlight. You are restoring some faith in MSM truthfully reporting and outing the criminals ❤

[@JohnSmith-vy4lh]

The police are public servants, and this secret deal is a blatant case of malfeasance in a public office by the chief constable. She needs to resign immediately.

[@caloricphlogistonandthelum4008]

Obscene, and it's no sport, I'm off to join Protect the Wild and I hope a few others who've seen this do as well.

[@HeidiCussons]

Full police investigation and prosecution and all those responsible should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the justice system.

[@skavengerr]

A man just killed three innocent people, and he wasn't charged . What do you expect them to do for a poor fox !

[@Moscow_Will_Burn]

The police and local officials are part of the hunt groups.

[@californiadreamin8423]

⁠​⁠@@skavengerr. You have a brilliant legal mind.

[@skavengerr]

@@californiadreamin8423 Barister Fartmann ! 💨

[@skavengerr]

@@californiadreamin8423 barrister fartmann!

[@henrybinns8745]

As someone who has lived in the countryside all my life (26), has friends who mock/drag hunt, a partner who mock/drag hunts, this is absolutely terrible and illegal behaviour from this group. There is absolutely no reason for it, and only goes to highlight how little the police are focussed on actual rural crime, let alone giving the countryside an awful image. This is clearly a crime, rural or not, and a horrific act committed against an animal. If farmers are truly ‘stewards of the land’ as they so often like to call themselves, and want the police to protect their vehicles and gps and livestock, they urgently need to disassociate themselves from groups like this. Where I live a fox was ripped apart on our village high street in 2022, in front of the village shop, next door to a cafe and over the road from a children’s hair salon. Guess what - a local rural crimes police officer was in their group. This is sadly systemic, and an overt breach of the law.

[@tomsgarden5141]

adapt like everyone else and do something different

[@billkosses3808]

​@@tomsgarden5141You do that and get off YT comments then, by way of example. Cretin.

[@TuhTuhPAH]

terrible news... but thanks for sharing/ reporting this illegal activities... and not too talk about who were the ones involved... awful... 🦊Hunters Sabotage!!!

[@LouisaClare]

You seem upset that other people saw it, as if the violence was worse for children to witness than animals to experience

[@alanfrost7696]

The local police have always been in the pocket of rural toffs

[@michaelprice3040]

We judge the Japanese for whaling and the Chinese for dog festivals but in our own back yard we let people rip animals apart.

[@NeBuLiSt]

"We" is a bit of an over statement!!! this is a small group of sick upper class sadists clinging on to barbaric practices... I would think most normal people are sicked by this!!!!! This is not the same as industrial Whaling and Dog delicacies in the East!!!!

[@t-you2003]

I would say this is worse because at least the Japanese and Chinese do it for food. These Brits are literally torturing an animal for fun.

[@The_Maskss]

This is awful

[@tonyr4873]

Have you seen what foxes do to chickens, and rabbits? That is worse.

[@apangolin5746]

​@@tonyr4873foxes literally need that to survive, humans do it for sport, also is very different the fox killing a Chicken that like 20 dogs mauling a fox

[@ArranVid]

@@apangolin5746 Correct and well said

[@ArranVid]

@@tonyr4873 I have a fox that tried to eat my rabbit, cry me a river...I never wanted to kill the poor thing. The fox ran off and the rabbit was fine.

[@julianshepherd2038]

"I'm so surprised" said no one.

[@aidonger42069]

What a surprise hunters don’t conduct themselves as paragons of their rural society’s

[@supersteve3812]

Thank you channel 4 for exposing such cruelty. I don't know these people can sleep at night.

[@tekpic04]

They are the same ones who want a war with Russia for profit gain.

[@PaKalsha]

Jesus wept, throwing the fox to the dogs - that's monstrous behaviour. We tried to find a compromise and they clearly aren't interested. If they can't be trusted to obey the law, fox hunting should be banned outright.

[@Sunshine-lo6vd]

100% !

[@lcdchase]

Agreed.

[@creativeproducer9035]

Grown men with 20 dogs ripping apart a small fox. These people need serious therapy for their daddy issues.

[@Saturday6547]

One rule for the elite

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

They just need to ban laying a trail, it's nothing more than a cover for continuing to hunt.

[@californiadreamin8423]

This is a business operation. How many hounds did we see ? They are being bred, housed and fed for this. Follow the money.

[@xxsweetalkinxx]

Thank you Sabs for exposing them!

[@kallisto9166]

Funny how all those hounds seem to know they're there to kill foxes. Almost as if they had been trained to kill foxes.

[@xxsweetalkinxx]

They will have been starved as well

[@chrysalis4126]

They have a high prey drive as a breed, like greyhounds, no need for training.

[@kallisto9166]

@@chrysalis4126 Pull the other one. Anyone familiar with dogs can see that those animals are habituated to killing. This is plainly not instinct alone, they are anticipating the kill before it even happens because they have engaged in it many times before. This is normal to them. Besides, if they are such uncontrollable killing machines then they can't possibly be suitable for faux-hunting, as per the law. I think that you know perfectly well that these hounds are routinely engaged in hunting, as does anyone watching this video. This hunt is using drag hunting as a smokescreen for their sole real purpose; killing foxes with dogs. You know it, I know it and clearly the dogs know it, so let's not pretend otherwise.

[@AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp]

You do realise this is natural if they weren’t in a house and in the wild they would do this I’m against it but you clearly have no understanding of dogs 😂😂

[@kallisto9166]

@@AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp Foxhounds are not wolves and do not exist in the wild you strange person.

[@Scotland2306]

Let a few working class boys dare to drop a fishing rod in the water, the police come hounding us. Posh people get away with breaking the law every weekend.

[@clive373]

How sick are these people!

[@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

Suspended sentences, so the judges appear to be sympathetic to fox hunters as well?

[@TheAegisClaw]

The judges are probably members of the hunt!

[@LobstersLobsters]

Wouldn't be surprised if judges rub shoulders with some of these "sportsmen"

[@billkosses3808]

They oughta be suspended....

[@morbid6944]

Tory judges

[@bodhid]

The judiciary are all deeply entrenched in the establishment, having studied at Oxbridge and that hobnob with the types that support hunting. Judges are conservative and serve to enforce power on behalf of the establishment

[@Sunshine-lo6vd]

My God. These people are evil !!!

[@65cquintero]

Why blur their faces!?

[@jacksimmonds9772]

They might be the 30 dogs owners

[@Maird79]

the thing with these hunts is the people that take part are arrogant and trot round like they own the place. let them be reminded nature belongs to us all and its not just for them to have a sick little hobby. can anyone explain how ripping apart a defenseless fox with a pack of dogs is good for nature?

[@goatsummoner]

​@Wherethereisnodarkness I'd like to know what they see in "hunting" too. Riding around on a horse with a big pack of dogs that will rip a fox to pieces. It sounds like they're people looking for a sick high from watching a defenceless animal get ripped to pieces with no chance of escape because they set big packs of dogs on them. People who get pleasure from this "sport" need their heads looking at.

[@bodhid]

These are sick people who experience a sexual charge in watching and perpetuating violence. They may have Barbour jackets and plummy accents but they are depraved. I would not be surprised if some form of sexual abuse lay at the core of why they themselves perpetuate abuse on a defenceless being.

[@djdrogs]

It's not hunting. It's a blood sport, plain and simple.@@goatsummoner

[@goatsummoner]

@djdrogs hense the word "hunting" with quotation marks. They'll use the word to describe what they're doing, but I agree. It's not even close to hunting it's, as you call it, a blood sport. A thing for sick minded people to do.

[@marcoose777]

I can't watch this, I got as far as 2 seconds before I found the pause button. Sociopaths or psychopaths begin this way.

[@mryorkshire3623]

Just terrible in the 21st century.

[@ascgazz]

If you think that’s the only one you’re very, very, wrong.

[@LouisaClare]

No one thinks it is. The question is why isn’t the law being enforced

[@ascgazz]

@@LouisaClare how often do you see police in rural areas? How often in urban?

[@LouisaClare]

@@ascgazz I live in rural Washington, I see them all the time. They have much less work load than city spd

[@ascgazz]

@@LouisaClare well, this hunt and myself are in Britain, so that’s all I really know. 🤷‍♂️

[@LouisaClare]

@@ascgazz yes I’m aware, and the UK has much more social infrastructure and financial stability for law enforcement

[@chris_anon88]

Horrible bunch

[@wuokmayangjanguan1591]

This is not a sport but cruelty.

[@tonyr4873]

Foxes are vicious vermin, may as well make a game out of controlling their numbers.

[@paulaoreilly9112]

Well done channel 4 news for showing the footage, & also to the sabs who risk their safety by going out & trying to stop the hunts.

[@froggin-zp4nr]

We've all known the toffs break the law, nobody believes their "legal" hunts.

[@Alex-the-hobbit]

Quite clear the law isn’t fit for purpose, and the deterrent not strong enough, despite it being illegal for the past 20 years. Time for a revisit me thinks!

[@dontmesswithcrows]

Absolutely disgusting!

[@masterchuck8772]

Money can buy so much

[@troophq]

Makes me sick to see this is still going on

[@marcusknowles711]

They never stopped! They all completely ignored the law! Thinking there above the law!!!! And the police let them carry on breaking the law

[@New-ye2fl]

It never stopped.

[@caitlinollett837]

What I simply don’t understand (as an equestrian myself), is that those of us who are lucky enough to have horses and/or ride them, have at some level a LOVE and CARE for animals. To outwardly pursue an animal to rip it to shreds with your OWN animals is unbelievable, and quite frankly, unfathomable if you have a true love of them. I have nothing wrong against DRAG hunts (where an artificial scent is followed), as they can be a fantastic outing for all and for spectators. But to pursue a live animal is barbaric. I would put into question the knowing horse owners capability to look after their own animals if they can behave in a manner like that.

[@morgenmuffel5747]

Clearly all equestrians do not love animals - they simply ride one that they often beat with a crop. As for drag hunts they are widely known to be a useful cover for individuals and organizations that secretly hunt live animals. Living in a land of delusion

[@tracybarton6728]

They are animal abuses. Look up what they do to their horses and hounds too. No empathy for any animal

[@caitlinollett837]

@@tracybarton6728Definitely some are. Others are just as bad as they step back and watch it happen without doing anything. It beats me how anyone thinks it’s in any way okay

[@memphisdaniels3218]

Foxes are hunted for the protection of MANY species that foxes will kill for no reason.

[@deborahgraves5430]

They may escape the activist and even justice but they can’t escape the drone!

[@jameseden9380]

Put them in prison. Where do i sign up to help sabs?

[@bodhid]

Search for: Protect The Wild. They make a difference!

[@litterpicker1431]

Search for "Hunt Saboteurs Association"

[@JK-zx3go]

Foxes still being killed by packs of dogs. I'm shocked.

[@californiadreamin8423]

This hunt is SUSPENDED !!! Where are the police ? They can use drones to monitor this illegal cowardly activity. Follow the money…..who funds the upkeep of these hounds ? 20 year old hounds !! They are being bred for hunting, and regularly kill domestic pets.

[@TruthFiction]

Since fox hunting is pretty much the exclusive domain of the wealthy, following the money is pointless. Everyone knows who's doing it because it's not like they hide.

[@MarkLeeMcMeekin]

The rich literally can do as they please! No morals whatsoever 🤬

[@raynarks]

Perverse.

[@kevinwilliams1768]

Barbaric & unacceptable .

[@thebionicwoman1762]

Shame on them all 🤮🤬

[@philliplewis-pm1ln]

2024 and this still going on bastards

[@lawrence-k7v]

Correction. Sadistic bastards.

[@Jo-kd3pl]

Whats the difference between this and hare coursing, i cant see anything and it should be banned, full stop

[@Eighty94]

What about deer staking? Or hunting with a golden eagle? Or using a jack Russel terrier as form of pest control to catch rats…no different and they are all legal

[@Peacefully-Happy-86]

Someone needs to do something about this 😡 😡 😡 😡 Horrendous

[@MrMarshmelloBoi]

"Once we win this election, we will ban all current hunting methods that have not been made illegal by the Hunting Act." - Labour and Comrade Keir Starmer.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Yup, you got it .

[@michaelfourie345]

No, they won't. Since when does ANY politician tell the truth?

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@michaelfourie345 What’s the point if they’re as gaumless as you !!

[@michaelfourie345]

@@californiadreamin8423 It's "gormless" - not sure why your'e insulting me unless you are a politician.

[@floydatwork]

You really think stinky starmer cares about foxes when he won't even help to defend Palestinian children? Just another tory in labour clothes.

[@alexandre9051]

Fox hunting, bull fighting, etc... humans have a weird way to be entertained

[@rb1062]

Not all humans!

[@MariAmmaSar]

England has yet to have the equivalent of the French Revolution. The Saracens will probably do what English serfs, made meek by hundreds of years of feudal servility, havent plucked up the courage for.

[@mariocastro7379]

But there is nothing else for rich snobs to do!

[@CharmaineScammell]

Isn't it surprising that if it does make it to Court, they suddenly plead poverty and how their family depend on them! Yet they have plenty of money to pay membership, horse tackle, etc 😡

[@paul8058]

This is nothing compared to what the gangs on my estate do to cats and foxes.

[@KS-zj2rq]

why dont they play polo instead

[@nancyhood8395]

And wheres the prosecutions

[@willie2761]

Courts are busy with misgendering, asylum appeals

[@evansnick81]

Sport... murdering things is not a sport..

[@Struieboy]

I wonder how the fox hunters would feel if one of their hounds was torn apart for sport by a dozen pit bulls ?

[@MrDanybe]

Why pitbulls

[@Struieboy]

@@MrDanybe OK, labradoodles

[@jakewilson1738]

Kids are starving, getting stabbed and people are pulling there own teeth and this is what we are worried about

[@scorpiovulpes]

And so we should be. Apologists like you are sickening.

[@memphisdaniels3218]

The people that don't like this don't understand the purpose.

[@Bobby-mq9ys]

This literally happens all over the country, every single week and nothing is done about it.

[@glennjames7107]

There is nothing sporting about turning a pack of hounds out on a deer ( as they are used for here in the US, a fox, or any hunted animal. This isn't hunting. Hunting is a man, or group of men or women setting out, on foot, tracking and hunting an animal. It requires much skill and even more patience. Using dogs to track, catch, and /or kill the game is the dogs hunting while the human waits for it. It's is inhumane for the game, and from what I have seen even worse for the dogs, as most of them live in small kennels, walking around in their own feces, and fed "lightly", because a well fed dog has no reason to hunt.

[@NeilEvans-xq8ik]

These barbarians must be stopped.

[@dennisbaron5680]

Bastars

[@glennjames7107]

Pardon my ignorance here, but isn't fox hunting a hobby, predominantly done by the wealthy in the UK ? If so, you won't see much interest from most MP's, I suspect.

[@yasminjonesosteopathy9456]

Disgraceful behaviour - thank you hunt sabs and Channel 4 for helping the public to see what these 'trail hunters' have ALWAYS been doing.

[@TSINIproductions]

The hunt in Warwickshire has a secret agreement with the police.

[@sarahbenn1792]

Thank you Channel 4, thank you sabs. No-one can sensibly argue with that drone footage. Sad that so many people are completely unaware this this goes on week in week out.

[@jamesflaherty59]

No problem with hunting/fishing, but this is deliberate cruelty which no civilised person should be prepared to tolerate.

[@memphisdaniels3218]

It is to protect many other species

[@FrancisChong]

It is beyond me how these cruel act is considered “sport”

[@richardstrangward4372]

I have every respect for the police but unfortunately when it comes to illegal hunting the police have openly supported the hunt. Often the hunts boasts senior police officers among its membership who offers, what appears in many cases, police protection for the hunt. So many videos which are circulating on social media support this belief. The police need to get back to upholding the law and prosecuting offenders. We also need a rethink on sentencing as currently the sentencing available to the courts amount to little more than a slap on the wrist.

[@alexandre9051]

These rich people make me sick... they don't need to work, so they need to keep themselves busy

[@kevinlewis8095]

Disgusting

[@Boo-pv4hn]

Not good enough, this is a way of making it legal and getting around the ban. The thing as a whole needs to be banned. Saying it’s something that’s been done for along time is a poor reason considering the many other things we’ve done for a long time but now don’t knowing it’s wrong

[@arturturk5926]

you can hear the thing screaming, wtf sick a holes

[@fpvx3922]

this is so sick

[@Micbop]

Its about time these freaks get prosecuted!!

[@iller3]

Constables are clearly on the side of the Rich ...seems like it will never be equal

[@skathwoelya2935]

These evil people are still doing this. What is wrong with the police in this country?

[@MixedMartialHelp]

Genuinely surprised to see this on a major news channel. Sabs have been documenting this behaviour from many hunts and often it is ignored and even denied by the police despite video and pictures. High ranked police have been known to be members of hunts at various levels.

[@Elio_Eon]

This is so wrong. Foxes are precious little animals so innocent... :(

[@memphisdaniels3218]

🤣 way to show your ignorance. Foxes are evil and will kill for no purpose.

[@t-you2003]

This is so horrible to watch..what evil people to literally pull out an animal from its den to have it torn to pieces for their enjoyment. Vile.

[@lordchaa1598]

I thought Hounds were supposed to track, not hunt? My Foxhound doesn’t have a malicious bone in his body. His tracking skills are unmatched and he just howls when he finds something. I don’t hunt, so I’m just letting him do what comes naturally to him. These people are despicable. Foxes are very curious and beneficial creatures. I love to see them, because I know we’ll have less ground hogs on our farm. Just shows it’s not the dogs, but the owners.

[@VK-qe7if]

But your dog isn't an English fox hound. They are bred specifically to run in packs and chase foxes and sadly kill them. Their breeding goes back as far as the 13th century. Their forebears include Bloodhound, Greyhound, Bull dog and Fox Terrier.

[@lordchaa1598]

@@VK-qe7if , he was rescued from a fox hunting operation. Look at the profile pic and tell me that’s not an English foxhound. He didn’t have the pack mentality so they just left him in a cage for 8 years. They don’t allow the packs to kill the foxes here in the states. Dogs are bread for tracking and mild temperaments. They wouldn’t be allowed to be let loose on the community for the annual fox hunt if they were vicious killers. They run past streets lined with kids on there way to the fields. It’s a choice, you Brit’s have just chosen the wrong breeding stock and have perpetuated this cycle. Our dogs are from the same stock brought here by lord Baltimore back in the late 1600’s. The breeders here wanted in tact pelts for hats and clothes, so they breed their dogs to track, but not kill. A farm in a neighboring state were caught grinding the teeth of their hounds down with a file when they were to aggressive.

[@h-boss1022]

That so call sport need to ban totally it time has pass for such things there are many sports they should pick another what do get out of this seeming an defenceless living thing bein rip apart what part of there human nature are feeding surly as a nation we do not want that side of human nature fed with crulity. Just call it a day pick a next sport

[@cecilialam6856]

That’s disgusting this sport has to stop

[@edwardmullins2716]

make the hunts fully banned

[@kiri101]

Prison.

[@paulhanger7242]

As per normal our 'weak, frail and pathetic' government cant enforce the law. Gutless is an understatement!

[@fictionfactory7164]

One real problem is that a great many from the constabulary fraternity and serving politicians, actively take part in fox hunting so have every reason not to enforce the law that they are breaking. Once upon a time, there would have been little chance of exposing this but along come drones and those missing pieces can be added to the puzzle.

[@thomaschapman2544]

Lords and MPs can happily hunt on horses and packs of 30 dogs but one lad n his dog out getting a few rabbits will get the bad name

[@gosiahobson4948]

How wet!!! Everyone knows that hunts break the law regularly!! I. Spain you get fined heavily or slammed up - time these arrogant bastards are stopped!! 🤢🤢

[@MrDanybe]

Spain is full of animal abusers

[@glenn4788]

Do your jobs! Police are so slow and lazy!

[@ChrisMurray-iw9ij]

Deport

[@BM-of6dg]

Good old British culture.

[@willie2761]

Along with kids up chimneys etc, workhouses are them were the days !

[@rb1062]

Don't be so crass. Most British people are sickened by this. Look at how other countries treat animals.

[@TuhTuhPAH]

so so so Bad!!! guys you should put some sort of warning message at the beginning of the video because this is awful and sensitive content...

[@monobiteme6014]

Hunting for food.. I'm okay with that but hunting for sports?? really should change a hobby before the law hunts you

[@leedowner2249]

Why do posh country types dislike foxes so much?

[@nikolaslarson6891]

Savages!