From All-Creatures.org Animal Rights Activism Articles Archive

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Mark Hawthorne, Striking at the Roots
May 2018

It’s a form of direct action known as hunt sabotage, and the activists engaged in it are known as hunt saboteurs (or simply hunt sabs). The hunt sabs also sometimes use horns to confuse the dogs and Citronella spray to prevent them from getting onto the scent of the animals.

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Sabs close in on hunters and hounds. Photo courtesy of the Hunt Saboteurs Association.

Using dogs to hunt small mammals—most notably foxes, who are often considered “pests”—has been an unfortunate part of British society for hundreds of years. As red-coated hunters on horseback follow, trained dogs with a keen sense of smell chase the scent of a fox through the countryside until they catch and kill their prey. A law banning the blood…