*** MULTIPLE SETTS BLOCKED BY 3 DIFFERENT HUNTS IN THE NORTH COTSWOLD BADGER CULL ZONE ON SATURDAY 13TH JANUARY 2018 *** ONE SETT BLOCKER CAUGHT RED HANDED BY ONE EARLY MORNING PATROL NEAR HAWLING, COTSWOLD HUNT ***

We were out in the field by 06.00 and just as we thought nothing would happen a man arrived to interfere with a sett that has been repeatedly targeted in Cotswold hunt country. He ran away after filling in several entrances with boulders and staves. Another sett nearby was also filled in with boulders. All so that the Cotswold Hunt would not have their fun disturbed by a fox going to ground in a sett. Rupert Inglesant is the master and huntsman and is also responsible for the multiple setts blocked Saturday morning. Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch found more and kept on them for the hunting part of the day as did badger protectors who were out sett checking.

Just a couple of miles away 4 setts were found to be blocked by the North Cotswold Hunt. We were in the right place at the right time when one fox crossed the road near Cutsdean, Nigel ran the other way leaving Calvin Crossman to fly his eagle to no avail.

More blocked setts are being found today by badger protectors from the Heythrop meet at Eyford who met less than a mile from the NCH.

They are all out again this week 2-4 more meets each.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, dozens of setts filled in on one day in an area where Natural England has decided to licence a badger cull!!

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