Short day with cotswold vale farmers’ hunt

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Out in action today with South Wales Hunt Saboteurs paying a visit to the Cotswold Vale Farmers Hunt who left their meet just after midday with two groups of sabs in tow.

Foot sabs were deployed not far from the meet and stuck to the huntmonitoring their activities. Hounds were ‘rated’ by sabs and pushed back to the huntsman at every opportunity. As the hunt made a bit of distance between themselves and foot sabs, hounds went into full cry and a fox was spotted exiting a covert with hounds not far behind. It managed to get away to safety when hounds lost its scent. 

Sabs covered the path of the fox with citronella spray and split into two groups as the hunt entered a large covert. One group rated the hounds inside the covert whilst the other stayed on the outside to look for escaping foxes. Hounds were seen exiting the covert where the earlier fox had been spotted but they failed to find it’s scent due to the spray on the ground. 

Realising sabs had the area covered, the huntsman gathered up the hounds and took off. We stuck to him like glue and at this point we were joined by a few sabs from Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs who joined us in following the hunt straight back to their meet. After two-and-a-half hours the CVFH were done. Lovely.

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