“Hmm, a course which encourages students to work for an illegal practice? Interesting. Foxhunting will never be made legal again. But I don't mind the students learning to look after the horses and dogs, if the hunting is trail hunting and not hunting of real foxes.”

“Read th8is. It's comedy gold!

http://tinyurl.com/6ej2wbj”

“Where I think there is a bit of a discrepancy about this law is - why don't they enforce it if it makes so much sense. For example if you think I should be gunning down the deer that I flush out why don't you report me to the police? Why do LACS not do so?

I am very sorry if the odd pet is accidentally killed. As far as malicious intent is concerned. Hunts are not malicious towards wildlife. They merely recognise the key benefits of predation in the ecosystem.

Where animals are not managed properly nature suffers. Look at the hundreds of deer that died on the LACS sanctuary from overcrowding. That is gross animal cruelty.

I know that what I do is not cruel and I will not stop.”

“It is not malicious intent of the animal, they are simply doing what they have been trained to do. It IS malicious intent of the human beings who have trained the hounds and encouraged the hounds to chase (and flush) animals

Pets are killed.
http://tinyurl.com/68o555z

http://tinyurl.com/6ysqhvq

So what is the llamas are only JUST hurt? Surely they and their owner should not be in fear of hunts attacking them on their land?! Who has the right to enter someone elses land and allow their animals to attack their livestock?”

“A recent letter to Chris Williamson - he is an MP and trusteee of the League Against Cruel Sports:

Chris Williamson MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A OAA

9 September 2011

Dear Mr Williamson,

I am writing to you as an MP with an interest in the Hunting Act 2004 about my deliberate use of three dogs to search for and flush out wild deer and other mammals on my land in Devon in order to chase them.

My technique is very simple, I periodically take my dogs off the lead over my land which consists of pasture and woodland. I often deliberately do this at dusk or dawn in order to maximise the chances of encountering deer. When we do encounter a deer or other animal I intentionally flush and chase the animal with the dogs.

I do this for a number of reasons:

To deliberately break the Hunting Act 2004
For fun
In order to discourage damage that the deer do to my coppiced woodland
Civil disobedience by breaking an absurd law

I have discussed this matter in depth both with Defra and my local police. Defra have in the past insisted that the law is clear that what I do is illegal unless I abide by the flushing exemption in the law which involves complying with conditions including the use of no more than two dogs and that the deer are shot. My local police concur.

It is clear that the Hunting Act if enforced could affect my right to continue chasing wildlife with dogs. In order to defend this right I am deliberately and openly flouting the law. I have for a long time made the league Against Cruel Sports well aware of this.

It is important to me that I am allowed to break this law with your full knowledge. This helps to bring the law into disrepute and to encourage others to break it.

If you have any questions about my activities I will be only too happy to answer them.

Furthermore if you have any objections maybe you would like to contact the police yourself. I have recently been liaising with Richard Crompton the Lincolnshire CC and head of the National Wildlife Crime Unit. He is well aware of my activities.

Yours sincerely,




Giles Bradshaw

cc Alice Barnard Countryside Alliance”

“Ps you say your pets are killed constantly. It's actually pretty rare for a pet to be killed by a hunt.”

“But the Llama wasn't hurt with malicious intent either. If people droive with more care on country roads we could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Moreover many animals are only wounded by cars and go on to die a long drawn out death.

Thank God for the Staghounds who are often called out to find and dispatch a wounded deer. Something that often can only be practically done using hounds.

Personally I never kill any thing with my dogs I just use them to flush and chase wild deer. Something which is now only legal if I shoot them. Dispersal of wild red deer is a key benefit while using dogs.”

“Giles-I do not buy any of your spin. It isn't even good spin!

Yes, cars kill animals but this is not done with malicious intent to kill. It is not done by people whose sole purpose of their expedition is to kill. You cannot compare someone accidentally killing a rabbit or a fox on the road to the barbarity of cubbing, of the chase, of the moment where the fox is taken down by twenty odd dogs and has its flesh ripped from it. I know from seeing it that the stag and the fox do not die instantly. It is a horrific death and is NOT humane.
Dying on the roads isn't humane either but it carries different morals! They DO NOT die instantly contrary to Countryside Alliance lies, there are expert vets who have proven that hounds do not attack with bites to the neck like lions do because they are hounds! They have to be trained to kill because they do not do so naturally!

Pets are killed (mine included) constantly by hounds and this is even after the hunting ban! If they are hunting legally then they would not go off the scent and onto people's land and gardens AND onto train tracks would they?

The thing is, most people hate hunting and most sane people think that this NVQ is not only a waste of time but absolutely disgraceful to the nature of animal care and I know many vets who agree.”

“Terrible! However let's not forget that animals hurt through hunting are far far less than other activities suich as car driving which cause many thousands of times more suffering”

“Giles Bradshaw-care to explain this?

http://tinyurl.com/67v6mvw”