Three Counties Sabs met up with Bristol Hunt Saboteurs, Bath Hunt Sabs, a couple of Cheshire Hunt Saboteurs, West Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs, a sab from NORTH Shropshire HUNT SABS and some independent badger cull sabs who got woken up and jumped in the car too, plus an Outpaced representative who was on call for illegal activity.

Various combinations of our groups met to sab different hunts and, unable to find the Ross Harriers after a tip-off, sabs headed to the Cotswold Hunt at Miserden and the Cotswold Vale Farmers’ Hunt who met at the Leigh. Groups split further to get inland as well as keep an eye on the hunts from the meet and, whilst inland, one group then heard hounds across the Severn.

We crossed and ran into loose hounds on a road over a bridge with bad visibility and quadbikers with no number plates. The Ledbury Hunt. Bristol and Bath sabs, meanwhile, were still sticking to the Cotswold Vale like glue, preventing successful hunting on the east side of the Severn. The Ledbury, once sabs arrived, tried a couple of half-arsed draws of maize fields before packing up at Townstreet Farm.

Over at the Cotswold sabs spotted the hunt and went inland just in time to see a fox running from the pack and managed to stop the hounds from hunting at that point. They didn’t seem happy to see us!

Not a bad day all round, we’ll be checking setts all afternoon, prioritising areas in the Gloucestershire cullzone where the hunts have been active.