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Hare Coursing – barricading the English countryside
Farmers given free soil to barricade the countryside against hare coursers. Despite the ban on hunting of hares under the Hunting Act 2004, the “sport” of hare coursing is on the increase and in practical terms virtually impossible to stop. It takes huge resources to police and even when offenders are caught there is little…
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Ear cropping of dogs, time to make it illegal to own one.
If Dobermans and the other breeds were meant to have cropped ears they would be born with them. The ear cropping of dogs in the UK has been banned since 2006 when the Animal Welfare Act made it illegal but it is still an increasingly common sight to see these dogs being openly paraded in…