Naturalist Chris Packham calls for legal action over ‘appalling abuse’ at the Cottesmore hunt
Kevin RawlinsonMon 8 Nov 2021 09.51 EST
The RSPCA is investigating after a woman was filmed by a hunt saboteur group apparently punching and kicking a horse.
The woman was condemned by the anti-hunting campaigners, as well as the naturalist Chris Packham and the organisation that oversees hunting with hounds in the UK.
Packham called upon the RSPCA to “urgently investigate and definitively prosecute this appalling abuse – thus upholding our standards of animal welfare protection”.
Megan McCubbin, a zoologist and a presenter of BBC Springwatch, called on anyone with information to forward it to the RSPCA, adding that the footage showed “disgusting behaviour”. She said: “Yet another ugly side of an activity some call ‘sport’.”Advertisement
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