It’s just not natural for hounds to kill cubs. These hunts are specifically designed to teach them how to kill as training for the main fox hunting activities.
A hot, dry summer means this year’s harvest will be early. Once the fields have been harvested, the hunters will start to gather in secret to carry out something so heinous that it’s difficult to talk about - but we must.
Hunt groups call it ‘autumn hunting’, but we know it’s cover for something much worse; cub hunting. Up to 10,000 foxes are killed every year in the name of ‘cub hunting’.
Why is it still practiced?
It’s just not natural for hounds to kill cubs. These hunts are specifically
designed to teach them how to kill as training for the main hunt activities.
Those who don’t perform to the expected standard are destroyed, resulting in
even more senseless death of animals. It’s estimated that 5,000 hounds are
killed each year due to their lack of suitability for fox hunting.
Help support our Animal Crimewatch hotline and Intelligence Team during
cub hunting season.
The Animal Crimewatch hotline allows us to catalogue every reported instance
of suspected animal abuse in the name of ‘sport’. We’ve already started
receiving calls from concerned people who have seen signs of cub hunting
taking place where they live.
You can help eradicate cub hunting by supporting our teams by contributing
to their running costs. During cub hunting season it costs £65,000 to fund
Animal Crimewatch and our Intelligence Team, so we need you to help us
safeguard our wildlife. Please
DONATE.