Today a few 3C sabs attended a Ledbury Hunt meet in Castlemorton NR Malvern with Bristol Hunt Saboteurs. The hunt were good at avoiding us for most of the day disappearing into pieces of land but the hounds were quiet on the most part so weren’t finding foxes.

The main event of the day was Bristol Hunt Saboteurs being assaulted in a field near a badger sett by Ledbury Hunt terriermen. Bristol Hunt Saboteurs left the area to follow the hounds and avoid further violence. A short while later two 3C sabs revisited the area of the assault and found the four terriermen digging out at the badger sett, The terriermen were quite threatening and aggressive to the sab closest to them who was taking their photos. After ‘antis’ turning up twice, terriermen left on their quad.

The two 3C sabs went up to the sett and found blocked holes, a filled in dig out hole, hound prints and hand prints in the mud. We do not believe the terriermen were able to complete their dig out. The police and Malvern Hills Conservators were in the area monitoring the hunts activities but the dig out was off the common on private land.

While this happened in Worcestershire other 3C sabs were assaulted in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire resulting in a trip to A&E, but that’s another story…

A facebook page called ‘Fox Hunt off Malvern Hills‘ has been set up in order to condense information on the huntwhen they hunt on Castlemorton Common and into the Malvern Hills, partially to make the Malvern Hills Conservators more aware of what the hunt are doing on and near the land they manage.

They do a separate report on what happened in the hills and on the common throughout the day. Bristol Hunt Saboteurs also got their incident covered by the media and have released a video…