Category: Animal Cruelty

  • Landowners scramble to suspend fox trail hunts

    Landowners scramble to suspend fox trail hunts

    Good news for some foxes this winter. Following the news that the police have launched an investigation into the activity of the Hunting Office after it was alleged that hunt masters had held webinars on creating hunting “smokescreens” to cover illegal fox hunting, there has been a mad scramble by landowners to distance themselves from…

  • The Shooting of Harambe the gorilla

    The Shooting of Harambe the gorilla

    The shooting of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 on the premise that he might have harmed a human was a reminder that human life will always takes precedence over that of an animal whatever the circumstances. Harambe died through no fault of his own. On the afternoon of 28 May 2016…