The illegal sport of dog fighting shares many characteristics with the illegal sport of fox hunting. Both ‘sports’ involve training dogs to attack and fight, be it on another dog or a wild animal such as a fox( which is a wild member of the dog family) or a stag or hare.The whole sport is induced [...]

Media Release: Embargoed until 00.01, 18th February 2011   Growing number of Conservative MPs support the Hunting Act Conservatives Against Fox Hunting are celebrating the sixth anniversary of the Hunting Act 2004 which banned the cruel and unnecessary ‘sport’ of chasing and killing foxes, deer, hare and mink with dogs. There are a growing number [...]

‘ From the new report’ Hunting, Past, Present, but No Future’, 2010 “I personally think that hunting’s disgusting. But I suppose that people ought to be allowed to do it if they want to. I mean, we can’t just ban hunting because we don’t like it. If we banned everything that someone objected to, hardly anything [...]

To mark the sixth anniversary of the Hunting Act, which outlawed the cruel practice of hunting with dogs, IFAW’s fantastically costumed Freddie the Fox, Harriet Hare and Stan Stag will this week present officials at Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) with more than 10,000 public declarations of support for the hunting ban. [...]

http://www.eventsetter.com/events/UK/South-East/Hampshire/Political-Campaign_Events/event127639.html Hampshire Rally Against Hunting. Cross Party Support For The Hunting Act 2004  14.00 on Saturday February 19 at the Solent Lecture Theatre, Southampton Solent University Conference Centre.  To reserve a place please contact Fraser Welsh in John Denham’s office at fraser@johndenham.org.uk or on 02380 339 807 People in Hampshire are being urged to help [...]