There’s simply nothing classy about fox hunting, a bloody tradition that uses dogs to tear foxes limb from limb.
While a ban on the cruel sport has been in place for a decade, it’s hard to enforce, and no one knows how many foxes are still killed each year.
But some animal activists in the U.K. are taking the law into their own hands, using whatever means they can to intervene on behalf of the defenseless animals hunted down despite the law protecting them.
Moving footage from 2012 shows the determination of a woman who couldn’t stand the cruelty.
Facebook/Leon Vegano Animal Sanctuary
The hunters sit astride horses in the fox hunting tradition, while their trained dogs do their dirty work.
Facebook/Leon Vegano Animal Sanctuary
The hounds are zeroing in on a tiny fox when a woman sprints towards them. She starts screaming at the dogs to get them to stand back.
Facebook/Leon Vegano Animal Sanctuary
She throws her own body on the fox and brings the shaking animal into her arms.
As she runs away with the fox, the hunters shout at her from their horses: “Leave it!”
Facebook/Leon Vegano Animal Sanctuary
Watch her beautiful act of bravery here:
Exposing the Big Game 
Another example of senseless, barbaric and reprehensible cruelty… Shared and signed the petition! The action taken by this lady is just wonderful ❤ :-)claudine
It is perhaps worth pointing out that by shouting “leave it!” the hunters are trying to call off their dogs. Anyway, extremely shitty excuse for a sport, this was apparently David Camerons’s idea of a good time.
Great video. Wishing a lot of good karma in her direction. I hope she doesn’t get arrested for interfering with a hunt. No one could ever explain to me what could be fun by hunting down a terrified fox and watching dogs tear it apart. If the “sport” didn’t have such a long tradition and acceptance, people would be wondering what kind of pathology could fuel it.
“The ban against fox hunting is not heavily enforced, which is why the inhumane practice still continues. Hunters can continue killing foxes and claim that the kill was accidental, thereby avoiding the law.”
Sounds like the coyote excuse. Good for this woman! Today, where there is no longer any ‘legitimate reason’ of the past for hunting, all we’re left with is the killing aspect of it.