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Hunting with dogs and the “unenforceable” ban.
The UK Hunting Act 2004 was never going to work. Whenever there is talk about the Hunting Act it tends to revolve around fox-hunting but other forms of hunting with dogs were also banned particularly hare-coursing. Fox hunts were not disbanded, but given an olive branch and allowed to flourish through drag or trail hunting and…
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Boxing Day Hunts still attract crowds & violence.
Boxing Day Hunts still attract the crowds, demonstrators and violence, but why? Sixteen years after hunting was banned the unnecessary Boxing Day Hunts gather and take place on the pretext of preserving rural tradition and these attract the inevitable controversy and conflict which has accompanied them since the Hunting Act 2004 was introduced. The Act was…