HIT REPORT : BSV
MEET : Haddon Lodge
Saturday 2nd March 2019
No one was more pleased than us to have finally arrived at the closing meet on the BSV hunt calendar. It was as expected well supported with a field of about 80 riders and around 40 support vehicles filled to the brim with blood thirsty, tenner waving, inbreds.
We had the absolute pleasure of working with two firs-class monitors today and extend them a huge thanks.
After all the end of season speeches. presentations and port swilling were over the huntsman set off taking the hounds North. A foot team went in at Clayhanger and were soon greeted by the hounds, huntsman and field. The hounds were happy to see the sabs and many sab strokes were handed out. It’s a very sad fact that these dogs are so friendly and trusting of humans when they have been trained to kill foxes, get run round fields for hours and eventually just get a bullet to the head rather than a chance of being re homed.
It was a welcome sight to see a presence of Dorset Police who were around for some of the morning and some of the afternoon.
The hunt crossed the road and headed west to see if they could locate a fox in Wood House Covert. With no access in here the Landy drove through Purse Caundle keeping them in our sight as best we could. Deer were flushed from here and we realised they were going to cross the road in front of us by Hanover Hill. We stopped in the road to let them past and Ben Harris drove round saying “ are you lot seriously gonna park there”. We told him deer were about to cross but he didn’t believe us and drove off . The deer then crossed in front of his car. One thing you lot don’t get is that we are there for wildlife. You may have no regard for their lives but we do – if we tell you something in relation to an animals well being it will always be true.
The hounds had a good search round Tripp Farm before heading east towards Ramillies Farm, where they go on the scent-line of a fox.
This fox took them south to Holtwood and the huntsman exited the hounds at Garvey Hill having lost the line of this fox. Cubs are being born already this year and its disgraceful that the hunts carry on trying to kill them when they may be pregnant or have cubs reliant on their parents.
The whole hunt continued north on the road through Stourton Caundle, took a left along Drove Road and over to Holtham Plantation, with the monitors keeping an eye out from the A357 the landy went round to meet the hounds when they exited onto Eastop Lane. The huntsman took the hounds towards Sturt Farm and was searching an area he likes to cover beside the road.
Monitors were now at Basel Bridge and they saw a fox cross the road, so sabs were out spraying the road while the hounds were trying to pick up in Harpitts. The terrier thugs passed the landy and were pointing to the spot where the fox had fled over the wall before parking a little further up the road. A female foot supporter was filming a sab spraying the road but when the sab started taking photos of her she didn’t like it at all, and had the audacity to say “I haven’t given you permission to film me’ She certainly didn’t have permission before she started filming us …. it works both ways Einstein. The hounds exited from Harpitts alone a bridleway north east of Basel Bridge and were taken to Park Wood. There is limited access here but we know the area well and kept eyes on several spots along Park Wall. The hounds went into cry on the western side of Park Wood and the hunted fox took them across the road near the disused quarry. Monitors had walked along Furge Lane and it is believed that this fox went to ground in a badger sett that had been partially blocked. The monitors were able to unblock the sett much to the fury of the quad thugs, and this fox lived to see another day.
Continuing North West and crossing the A30 by Quarry Farm the huntsman took the hounds to try his luck at Inwood and he took the hounds around Inwood in an anti clockwise circle. The hounds were seen by the monitors having a good search of an area beside the road above the Henstridge Ash crossroads and from there they headed South back in the direction of Purge Lane.
This concluded the day at around 4.30pm and not a moment too soon ! Still no sign of the brawling Doggrell brothers Edward or Ben, we would like to think this is because the BSV hunt don’t want to be associated with criminals but the bearded psycho was out in the position of terrier thug today and the Hat thief was riding up front with the hounds !