The Dark Side Of Britain: The Hunt | UNILAD Original Documentary
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- WARNING: Contains content some may find upsetting | Contains strong language.
In the first episode UNILAD's new original series: 'The Dark Side of Britain', we explore whether the ban on hunting foxes with hounds, which was put in place in 2002 in Scotland, and 2005 in England and Wales, has had any affect on the welfare of foxes.
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From a farmer's point of view, it's understandable that you have to shoot a few foxes to protect your chickens, although I feel like an upgrade in security for the chickens would be far more effective in the long run. People who kill native wild animals just for the sake of killing, however, is unjustifiable sadism that needs outright recognition as a serious crime.
Totally right and these people are disgusting. They literally want to watch a fox be torn to shreds. It's so creepy and evil. That's not culling for environmental or farm protection. That's sadism
Hyena Channel I get what u are feeling. I live on a farm. I adore every singe animal on this planet..... Ok maybe not spiders. But i have to protect my own before anything else. Ive had to kill things because of it. I hate it so so much. Yet these guys arnt always on their property. And theyre doing it for sport 😞
Hunts now follow pre laid scent trails not live foxes. This video is rubbish. So called hunt sabs give town dwellers a bad name and make it harder for ramblers, mountain bikes and campers to gain access to private land etc. For decades organisations like the ramblers association worked hard to build up good relations with countryside dwellers and land owners and all that hard work is being undone by these stupid so called hunt sabs. Most country dwellers welcome town dwellers into the countryside as we bring money to the countryside and business to country pubs. But that is all under threat from these hunt sab idiots!
@@angusmeigh5141 do you get an extra boot to lick as a treat when you defend these murderers?
your point is good but the killing because of your cattle i mean the fox doesnt know and its just trying to eat maybe setting up electric gates would be better but your point is still good
200 years ago this might of made sense.. But if a farmer can't make a chicken coup fox proof in the 21st century then there's no hope for farmers
THIS^
It’s tradition and a thrill.
Both sides have c*nts and i only feel sorry for all the animals involved. The horses and dogs just do what they're trained to do. And the fox just want to eat to survive. It's us humans that are the problem.
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Should we not be campaigning for Kevin's barber to be brought to justice instead? Jesus, the poor guy.
"people pay to follow on horse-back, that's how i get my income"
5 minutes later:
"In no way is this for profit, it's pest control"
"i'm an adrenaline junkie"
5 minutes later:
"it's not like I get some enjoyment out of it, i'm not evil like they make me out to be"
sensing a bit of a double story here
The money go to the hunt to pay for food and water for the dog and vets bills
Janet ARE you kidding me Jones everything is for profit listen we are supposed to live in a civilised country not a barbaric one . But I'm sorry Jones you seam to think otherwise even if you shoot the fox how do you know that the fox is really dead .isn't it the case that fox could be still breathing & dying and then you send in the hounds to finish it off. Is it just the same thing as getting the hounds to tare a live fox apart. I'm sorry Jones it's just barbaric it's not foxes that are vermin but certain so called human being's are. I'm sorry Jones maybe that fits your category l sincerely apologise if I'm wrong sorry. But I've been an animal lover all my life that will never ever change (DOMESTIC AND WILD NO MATTER WHAT). ;)
@@tomjones5648 Ah yes, food and water for the dogs that are treated like objects, frequently beaten during training and put at risk at being run over by cars or trampled by horses or bitten by rabid foxes.
@@janetross8601 I tend to stamp on its next to make sure it's dead and hit it with sticks
@@janetross8601 saves us £1.7p a bullet to shoot them and the time and helps people get out and exercise, and winds you lot up, win win for everyone 😆👍
Just a little side note the man who was acting as the shooter for the hunt is right in the UK a Firearms certificate and a shotgun license are two very different things
You need a firearms certificate to own a shotgun in the uk, in most peoples books, that makes it a firearm.
@@nicevans6827 No you do not! You need a shotgun certificate to own and use a shotgun and you need a firearms licence to own and shoot a rifle.
The 13th Duke of Wybourne I think I’ll read the government website and trust that over someone on CZcams. Many thanks though.
@@nicevans6827 No worries, I read it every 5 years when I renew my certificate, let me know if anythings changed will you? Ciao!
@@nicevans6827 Confidently incorrect.
love how adam and kevin are on first name basis
22:40 he said ‘hox funting’ twice😂😂😂
Nothing dark about it. Managing fox numbers is vital for the health of the countryside. Life isn’t a Disney film.
There is a right and wrong way to do it
Let's say you're right. Do you think shooting and ending a foxes life quickly and humanely is more civilised or efficient than chasing one for an extended period of time on horses with a pack of dogs which then rip it apart?
My understanding is that when a predator population goes up the Prey population goes down. Then because the prey population is down the predator population drops and off the back of that the prey population increases again.
It’s a natural balance I’m pretty sure nature got on fine a long time before humans started “culling”. These guys are cruel bullies and use the arguments like that to justify their actions
@@21ADB21 in my opinion id prefer to shoot them and end the fox quickly instead of putting it through the pain of being ripped apart because yeah they are trouble most the time but its still better to kill them off quickly instead of letting them suffer as a dog rips it apart
@@kevin-john4089 my point exactly
I thought that was a really good program to show both sides of the fence sitting down discussing the matter being civil and honest.
Mo hawk and purple hair tells you everything
Oh no! People expressing themselves! How horrifying.
I can get over that savage mohawk, I can forget that purple mistake.
One thing I cant understand is how come people enjoy killing and traumatising a wild animal. It's nothing sophisticated about this, only extreme cruelty.
But what would I know, I probably have some regrettable tattoos that would question my morality.
Lolll
anyone else think the ones that are trying to prevent this look like mental cases 9 out of 10?
That is because the sabs are mental cases
@@spyidr1892 where did you learn to spell?
@@21ADB21 the english education system
Next they will protest wild dogs, since they hunt as well.
Does anyone else think the Fox Hunters look like they’re inbred 9 out of 10?
34:26 A shotgun is still a firearm, however you do not require a firearms certificate in the UK to own one but rather a shotgun certificate as they are classed differently under law.
Unless the shotgun is capable of firing more than 3 cartridges consecutively then it’s classified as needing a firearms certificate
Nope a shotgun is not a firearm,that is why you require a different licence for it!
I've thought up a solution. People on horseback with a pack of hounds chase a man with a stupid haircut around the countryside and give him a kicking when they catch him. It could be called 'C unting'...
He is pretty annoying
No one gonna ask how a bird of prey was getting in on the fighting 😂
Love the bit where they stalk a random trailer! Yeah they definitely knew that they were being followed and were hiding, it’s not like horses are transported all day everyday and they were just minding their own business.
This man is just completely gormless omg
????? sounds like someones mad they didnt get to rip apart another defenceless animal in the name of "pest control"
better than being a scumbag
@@cherylno583 okey, animals especially in areas with few or no predators need to be regulated. If they aren't regulated animals would starve to death and have horrible lifes since they wouldn't have enough food. But I definitely don't support any mean or cruel form of hunt. It should be done fair for the animals. For small animals like a fox dogs shouldn't be used for the hunt. Since the dogs hurt the animal and don't just flush them. But fair hunting is not unethical and shouldn't be banned :)
@@theodorblidberg1412 there's no such thing as "fair hunting" - that's the whole point of hunting lol. if you're referring to pest control, this certainly isn't it. i don't disagree with this because i'm not a farmer. you're probably right about that. its not even that the dogs hurt the animal thats the base problem: it's the clear fact that these people do this for fun (half of them literally admit to it), and terrorise a single animal for four hours. i've heard people say foxes are self regulating.. idk if they are or not. but if they aren't this certainly isn't the way to go about it.
How anyone can believe setting a pack of dogs to rip another animal apart is beyond me. It’s absolutely disgraceful, sickening, and outdated.
It’s natural, more natural than humans going out and having to stalk and shoot them from 100 yards away. Please explain how it’s “disgraceful”, “sickening” and “outdated”
@@stokesy887 it’s not “natural” dogs aren’t part of nature. You have no clue
@@theotheseaeagle dogs are indeed a part of nature and as you have just seen they are pack hunters just like there closest wild relative the wolf.
@@joanapaiva7554 not anymore. Unless your talking about feral dogs. Dogs that will be locked in a kennel for 90% of their lives before being let out in massive groups to rip apart a fox aren’t part of nature. Oh yea and in nature the dogs aren’t being shot once they get too old or are injured even it’s only a minor injury
@@theotheseaeagle sorry but “not anymore”doesn’t all of a sudden disclude dogs as being a part of nature neither does the conditions to which they are kept. I dont agree with the inhumane way in which these dogs are used to kill foxes
Foxes don’t have a natural predator and I have 39 chickens so it’s understandable but I really don’t agree with it it’s grim as F
Devon Fishing ya know if there’s a dead chicken I would give it to a fox because sometimes chickens kill other chickens
At 42:36 he notes that the amount of livestock killed by foxes is negligible.
@@pooscifer do you own or care for any livestock in the country? Be it poultry, lambs or game birds? Until you see it with your own eyes you’d have no concept
Get a Tibetan mastiff
@@finwillystick3894 exactly
I swear people are getting thicker and thicker and even more thicker
I know. What kind of idiot would think hunting is acceptable?
@@notorioustampaton fox hunting or hunting in general
@@tiernanwearen8096 the only time hunting is deemed partially acceptable is if you were genuinely in a survival situation, but if you’re using CZcams you ARE NOT in a survival situation, and therefore it is cruel and disgusting behaviour.
The hunting of any animal is wrong.
@@notorioustampaton nah hunting isnt wrong only if you hunt in a way that cause unnecessary suffering
@@strande7032 if you’re someone who lives with access other foods, hunting is unnecessary. I’m going to assume anyone who is watching this video or comments has access to other foods, because you have access to the internet.
Hunting is wrong even if it’s for survival, but in that instance you could be justified to some extent as it’s those peoples only choice, but it’s still wrong.
Anyone in this comment section, and chances are everyone else you know, is not in a survival situation so for you it would be incredibly wrong.
Hunting to eat= Yes
Hunting for trophies= Burn in hell
BabaYaga-TBG
If you eat meat then you cannot oppose hunting.
@@Steven-ze2zk Yes you can.
@@TruScottishGuy How so? Either you believe it's wrong to kill an animal for an unnecessary reason be it food, skin or some kind of trophy or you don't. We don't need to eat meat in most places where we live.
jack eating an animal you hunted is honouring it’s life by using its body to fuel your family’s life. If you hunt an animal and just don’t do anything with the body that’s disrespectful.
@@klaudia711 Why is there meaning to be found in the issue of who killed the animal and how? I can see how hunting may be seen as more palatable than a slaughter house because it looks more like a natural predator/prey dynamic than industrial style killing but it's still killing an animal for an unnecessary reason.
Can you easily live without meat? Most can't. I didn't think I could ever live without meat before I tried it but my diet is boring and I would never expect anyone else to eat it. I eat soups, some stir fry things and that's about it. I don't care what anyone says. It is not be that easily to truthfully enjoy a plant based diet. I don't see a vegan MacDonald's, pizza hut, burger king, Chinese take out, Indian restaurants and so on. If you have to rely on the world to feed you, it's gonna give you the option of meat, cheese and dairy.
Foxes are making a good job at eradicating small rodents, rabbits...etc that eat crops. Foxes have an important part to play in regulating the ecosystem.
However their predatory instincts can be very detrimental to farmers as they prey on lambs, a fox will kill the whole chicken coop almost everytime just to take one if any...it is their instinct. If you do not live in the country side you can't understand the level of damage a fox can do.
A hunter.
finally someone has the same view , a lot of people dont realise the damage they cause
The worst part is a lot of people do live in the countryside and have no idea about how conservation works. They have this idea that every animal is cute and cuddly and its absurd
@@rhyst-j9469 ... I have seen a shed load of chickens ravaged by these vermin.
@@rhyst-j9469 it still doesn’t justify making ah event out of watching them get ripped apart by packs of hounds
Foxes rarely hunt they are mainly scavengers.
The dogs are abused and neglected as well. This activity is just pure evil.
The dogs are never neglected. to do so would be counter productive an unfit dog is a ineffective dog
@@gw5158 he said they shoot the lazy dogs, were you listening selectively?
Kyle the anti said that not the pro hunt side
Any proof of that? Didn't think so.
@@kylsters the uneducated sab said that not the huntmaster. dont belive everything you hear from the left
The reason 81 percent of the rural community dont support fox hunting is because just due to the fact you live in the countryside does not make you a countryside person🙄
Where did you get that stat
@@spicer878 it literally says it in the video
@@joedavidson23 yes but what is the source
Countryside person??🤣
Actually there are 3rd generation farmers who hate hunts.
Some people have been living in city too long! Silly!
Getting a thrill out of seeing an innocent creature being torn to bits is disgusting no matter if you're from the city or not. That's not hunting, it's torture. And if you get off on torture and death there's something wrong.
I'm just gonna give my two pounds, but, where I live, an urban environment, there are TONS of foxes and nothing gets done, they go to the local pond where people fish, and eat the geese, you can see the feathers when you pass by. They also attack local pets, cats especially, let alone that god awful crying woman/baby noise they make when calling to each other, creepy as fuck.
My parents kept 3 chickens and loved them. A fox came in and killed all 3. Didn't even take one for food. They weren't disturbed either. My parents were away for the weekend.
@@19822andy didnt love them enough for good enough fences🤭
@@christianbigdawg2481 What do you expect them to do? It was a back garden putting up 8 foot fences was not an option fool.
@@19822andy we lost two of our chickens to foxes it was very sad but that’s nature. Wolfs do the same thing. Fox will kill as many as it can as it does not know where the next meal is coming from. Man is the problem on earth no animals like foxes
Let’s make fox hunting in cities legal
So there's those guys who hunt foxes and those guys who hunt those guys who hunt foxes.
Oh welll
These Hunt Saboteurs are so skilled and a joy to watch. But really doing the Police's job for them.
Skilled at being w@nkers
I have never hunted Fox's and I have never been interested in stopping people hunting either, I do however enjoy watching these sabotage idiots getting their faces punched in by farmers. I actually find it quite hilarious when people trespass on someone else's land, make a nuisance of themselves and then scream and cry when they get man handled
triple pee you written pretty much how I feel. I see foxes in my city and leave them be. There is one around my back garden every night screaming, I like it, it's like a sound of nighttime city life.
Bet most of these got stride leather boots, eat halal meat 🍖 🦊 etc etc.
"Your on camera 🎥 "
Proceeds to smash the windows in.
Probably trespassing. I find it pretty amazing they know every dog by name and individually.
Well said I love hunting
@Zak Giffgaff Up to 80% of countryside dwellers oppose fox hunting. Do your research.
It's a sport for bluebloods and wannabe aristocrats
The hunters trespass more than the sabs do!
imagine this much effort used to stop drug dealing
Simple, at the meet, quietly and secretly, poison the hounds. Use long term poison. Difficult to trsce back to uou. Hounds are expensive, and without them, a hunt cannot function.
Oh I realized they're aggressively trespassing but the hunters are doing the same for the foxes
Laurent Courtois farmers also complain about hunts on their land, not all farmers agree with fox hunting and residents complain. Hunts have also killed many other wildlife and domestic animals.Yet if you ban it totally that man in the video said it will go underground because people like him like the excitement of an animal being ripped to spreads because they admire the foxes intelligence. This man was conditioned as a child by his father and no doubt he has children and will have conditioned them the same. Very sad.
@@Babycakes_2001 nothing to do with excitement, fox’s need their numbers controlling, they breed like rabbits and have no problems wiping out other species such as ducks, geese, rabbits, pheasants and sometimes even peoples pets. many cats have been killed in the countryside because they aren’t being controlled anymore
@@willosborne8383 foxes do not need controlling, humans do.
@@Babycakes_2001 you are a clown🤡, foxes steal peoples pets for food, kill live stock such as lambs, calf’s and piglets, will eat their way through fences to get at chickens, pheasants or partridge and have no predators so their population is always growing to the point where people in some areas can’t have certain pets as the risks are too high
Hunting it a british tradition done for centuries as pest controle, it is important as it protects livestock and also stops over population which can damage a ecosystems biodiversity. People from the city need to see all aspects of country life before making a judgement, afterall if it wernt gor country folk you wouldn't have any food. Take a step back and look at your city and make it a better place before trying to change other places.
Why don't just shoot the animal out of its mysery or find a more human way of doing this?? I'm sure there's a more efficient way of dealing with this problem without gathering a croud of people on horsebacks watching a pack of hounds tearing apart a wild animal.
It's not like farmers use traditional methods from centuries ago to raise crops. Imagine ploughing with a yoke instead of using a tractor because it was done for centuries.
If its for pest control then why do hunt clubs build artificial fox dens to encourage breeding so the cubs can be hunted once they've grown? Would it not make sense to discourage breeding if its for the case of pest control? Nature has it's own ways of fixing overpopulation. Killing livestock isn't a valid reason as livestock are killed by humans anyway. Even if it was to fix overpopulation, there are plenty of methods to do so that don't require killing animals.
@Kit Crawley at least you're honest. I can respect that. That doesn't mean you're right. Do you still clean your chimneys using child labor??
I am a hunter, and I even think that this way of hunting is cruel.
Or…you can regulate it with only a couple dogs. That should result in the same detection of the focuses and then they can be humanely killed instead of ripped to shreds. Two hounds are easier to control than 40
The hounds spread out to cover more ground and pick up scents and uncover foxes. Wouldnt get any foxes if you only had two.
Hunting with guns = fine. Hunting with dogs = Not fine.
Ik but hounds bite them to death so that makes sabs bitchy. Guns kill them clean
@@Massey-ze3ln the lead hound will snap the neck of a fox and it's all over in less than a second no matter what anyone from the anties on the left say, it's a quick kill as quick as being shots and the clips of a pack of hounds ripping a live fox apart are very misleading the fox is long dead. Anyhow a healthy fox will always get away from the hounds sick and injured ones might get caught unlike shooting them healthy as well as the sick and injured could get shot but a shotgun is only effective up to 30 yards and there's more chance of it getting injured and not killed outright.
Look pal, you are going bald, do it gracefully and get rid of that hedge on your head.
If shredding foxes to pieces while still alive with a pack of dogs is deemed ok because "foxes are pests". Then why not shred tories to pieces with a pack of dogs, considering they're even greater pests?
Mad Mental Hibby im sure u got a point there. But i kinda wanna know what Tories are ?
Very true, especially since hounds have been known to attack farmers livestock
@@zosialee7000 Think of them as the modern Republican Party of the UK. Aka: complete racist, conspiracy peddling, rich scumbags.
@@theotheseaeagle when where and what
@@abramdavidson988 oop thats right turn it into a class war do you think all the northern hunts vote tory
Was a time I believed in hunting as a way of controlling their numbers , I also believed in ferreting and other forms of hunting. I am now totally against all blood "sports" , not sure why it called a sport when it's so barbaric
As far as controlling foxes with hounds goes, it's the least effective way of doing it. We persecute thousands of foxes every year in the uk, majority are shot with a rifle, or held with a snare and shot with a shotgun.
There is no argument for controlling foxes with hounds when there are far more efficient ways of doing it.
With ferreting, it's an extremely effective way of controlling rabbits, it's effective and efficient. And leaves very little impact on the wider countryside.
Like it or lump it, we need diversity in our countryside, left to it's own means, we would live in a mono culture bio-landscape where a small amount of species would thrive, and the rest would not. The driving force behind any species is to thrive, breed and dominate.
An rspb wetland reserve proved this, they decided to "let nature take it's course" and the entire reserve was dominated by brambles and corvid.
We need management and control in our countryside, but we don't need fox hunting.
We need effective and humane ways of controlling species, that, by there very nature are extremely adaptable and would cause a disruption to the overall bio diversity of the countryside.
@@user-iw4xb3lh5r I see what you are saying... but I will point out that historically humans dont have a great track record w managing ecosystems.foxes are native and they rabbits rodents etc.nature managed before humans were around.frankly humans are the most destructive and invasive species and there s too many of them...but nobody is suggesting we hunt and shoot them!
I’m a farmers son and personally don’t really agree with killing foxes with dogs but I wouldn’t ban it. If you can shoot the fox instead that would be a lot better but 20+ dogs killing an animal is pretty efficient. Most people would probably miss the shot anyway leaving the fox wounded so at least this is guaranteed death. Also, this is nature tbh. I know these dogs wouldn’t be after a fox without human input but my point is animals hunt each other. Are we going to go to Africa and start sticking middle fingers up to lions for killing their prey by inducing some form of pain? Or are we going to attack park rangers for having an ecosystem where there are predatory animals involved?? Further more this is pretty biased journalism which makes a basic attempt to be double sided but miserably fails. Foxes are a real pest. They will kill as many lambs as possible and if they get into a chicken coop will literally kill every single one of them. We once lost 20 in one night to one fox. Pests need to be managed, don’t kill every fox out there but their numbers should definitely be regulated, especially if introducing an artificial food source. The only reason fox hunting is really hated is because it seems elitist. Let’s not brush over that simple fact. People don’t like it because rich people are having fun and then killing something. Plus if any of these protestors came onto my land without my permission I would be really angry so too right you get some abuse back. Just because someone has more land than you doesn’t give you a right to wonder onto it just like the farmers can’t wonder onto your back garden.
Killing foxes sometimes is necessary, but dressing up riding around horses with bloodthirsty hounds is a disgusting and absolutely unnecessary way of doing it, there’s a reason why cruel and unusual punishment was banned, it should go the same way for animals.
wait, is it necessary? at 29:37 he says they're a self regulating population
I think we have to accept that country living is not the same as city living so whatever a city dweller may perceive to be wrong does not transfer perfectly onto what a country dweller would think wrong.
Most country people are against hunting. Plenty of farmers in my area hate them and try to ban them from their land.
@@janebrooks6528 bull
Do people in the countryside have no morals then?
@@petejackson612 morality is dependent on time, place, and those involved. Go back 100 years and few people would care about this issue.
Sorry but what I live in a city and used to live in the country and we was completely against fox hunting it's just cruel you don't have to be a farmer to see that
I dont understand the fuzz. Yes it is brutal, yes it might seem barbaric, but it is part of a culture. Do we forbid halal slaughter or shechita? If you ban one you ban them all, plain and simple. Forbid everyone their culture or none. Everything else is hypocritical and ignorant.
Agree halal is far worse. This is natural hunting with low fatalities
‘At the moment we’ve got highground’ what is this? Fortnite
Its not like any land/property owner was ever threatened or had their lives made a misery when they didnt give these people permission to ride roughshod wherever they please.
A lot of foxes out foxed the hunt by moving to the cities, every large city I have lived in in the UK, Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and others I have seen foxes deep inside the city.
I’ve never heard of that happening before
I thought that was because of a human introduced disease that killed rabbits which foxes feed on, but that could be another reason
The main reason is because there’s more available food in urban areas. Foxes rarely need to hunt in urban areas because they can just scavenge in bins or are fed by local people
it will absolutely become like lurching, it gets completely baned and it will go underground with real criminals, more foxes will be killed by hounds this way you know.
@Vivianna Mason - 2025 Go look up illegal lurching (chasing hares with dogs) and illegal falcon hunting or when they band hunting on badgers in the uk. Allot of people continued hunting and are still hunting today illegally. They do it for pest removal, witch dogs is a very effektiv method for. It wouldn't surprises me if large estates wold be happy to illegal pay someone to let there dogs lose and kill foxes to protect the deer that they sell. Or like lurching where they started betting money on how many hares a dog could take during a night of hunting (that's where the criminals come in), bragging rights, or just as a protest against the ban. Hunting is a very deep rooted tradition with some people and they will do it no mater what, and the majority off these people are what you would call civilians. Anyone would be afraid of being caught if they were doing something illegal but ideology and money trumps those fears. Like wolfs that are illegally hunted left and right in Scandinavia just because hunters don't think they should be there cus they kill the game the hunters hunt. Same with the fox where some hunters shoot them out of season just because they kill the deer.
I am a hunter. I love hunting and getting my own meat etc. But this? This is atrocious and paints anyone who enjoys a regular hunt in a really, really, really bad light. Wouldn't EVER hunt if I didn't eat it. Appalling.
However, the reason people do not meet for social hunts isn't necessarily because it is illegal BUT because you do not want rando's standing around as ricochet bullets really are a thing and it would be a massive safety concern.
I love how the ads are for thermal scopes to kill animals at night 😂
I stand with the hunters. Foxes are pest just as much as rats and racoons. The whimp asses need to mind their own bussnies or face the following. Hunt on from Sweden.
If they want pest control, they should put out humane traps, spay or neuter the foxes, and then release them back to where they were found. It's important to have some predators, or else you'll end up overrun with mice, rats, voles, and other varmints that can cause much more damage than a couple of foxes living in the hedge. The few who avoid the traps can produce enough kits to keep the ecological balance going. It works really well with feral cats, so why can't it work here?
Oh wait, nobody hunts feral cats for fun, just foxes. 🦊
No hunt sabs have ever been murdered
As a hunter I am generally against using dogs to run down prey. That's just not how I prefer to hunt. Yet I do believe it can be done ethically and responsibly.
After watching the entire video, these protesters not against illegal hunting. They're against hunting. They also seem to be preventing humanely shooting the foxes. Nobody is going to be able to shoot the fox if A) the person holding the firearm is being harassed and must unload his weapon constantly in order to prevent any incidents with the protesters and B) if when they can and need to shoot the fox before the dogs catch up to it the protesters then get between the huntsman and the fox. In these situations the protestors are making it both ethically and legally impossible for the huntsman to actually humanly kill the fox.
Single Dog on fox yes but 30 dogs on fox no that's fucked hare coursing should be legalised again so should badger hunting
Daniel Ebbighausen you can’t shoot ethicaly. If you wont eat it ,dont hunt it.
@@alcapune6683what about vermin control
@@ianhugheswhite76 If you think thats so important, get down to westminster, plenty there, maybe a new sport in it ?
@@ianhugheswhite76 That's just what hunting is about. Include the sabs as vermin.
And we call ourselves a nation of animal lovers???????? BAN THE FUCKING THING.
Bunch of city kids who have no idea what they’re on about
I don't like the whole hunting for sport thing in general, but I think people should have the right to hunt no matter the reason as long as it's permitted in the lands. It's how they hunt that we should be concerned about. A quick kill with a hunting rifle is fine, but I don't like that they gotta sick their dogs at the foxes to tear them up alive. Also respect your kill, consume every part of your kill, don't let it rot on the floor to go to waste or rag-doll it around with a smile on your face, it's creepy.
Why should people have the right to hunt? It’s destroying nature and contributes to making animals endangered and extinct.
It’s hard to shoot the fox with hounds chasing. People don’t hunt for the kill it’s for the thrill of the hunt.
@@Tony-sh7hl Cats like to hunt just for the thrills too, but you don't see them having to sick dogs at their prey. What's the point of hunting if you're just gonna have dogs do all the work?
@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 It’s not about the dogs killing it’s about the hedges and ditches and drama whilst chasing. That’s why drag hunting is just as fun and the majority of hunts are drag hunts. The sabs don’t understand that and I regularly see them at drag hunts and stag hunts with fox posters even though no foxes could possibly be harmed
@@Tony-sh7hl statistics show that only 3% of hunts are actually drag hunts. “Drag” or “trail” hunting is just used as a means to hide the illegal activity that’s really going on
And what does he mean pest control? They are not pests!
The only pests are those effers on horseback!
they are pests
It's illegal fox hunting...yet most of the video the hunters are doing it according to the law...XD...
jdsaunders12, we need to close the trail hunting loophole to outlaw all Fox hunting.
REKKLES MAGNUS There’s no need for population control and in the U.K any and all Fox hunting is illegal full stop.
Zoo Fan there certainly is need for population control. If you want to support sheep farming in this country, foxes need to be culled as they have no natural predators, if you are a vegetarian I understand your point. Lamping foxes with a rifle is one way of doing it, driving foxes with terriers to guns is also totally legal.
@LiamThe biggest predator in this country is the fox its responsible for 60% of fatalities in the 3 smaller spiecies of deer. The Scottish Government is currently spending 10million wiping out deer in scotland, I dont see the twats in here doing anything about it. Proving theyre just Spoiled Thugs looking for the attention their mother failed to provide.
@Liam The problem with foxes is that they are very efficient hunters and they have a fantastic ability to adapt to which ever environment they find themselves in. Thats why their numbers must be controlled. You may have no reason to control foxes but many other people do. I take it your chickens and are kept in cages.
Next .. Fishing, Horse Racing and Greyhound Racing .. oh wait.. they’re not the preserve of the rich, so we’ll leave those alone and take the class warfare somewhere else.
Despite the civil disobedience, is this video is certainly not 2 sides of the story. The saboteurs have had so many allegations of harrasment. My friends dad had his jaw broken and his beard ripped out by a group who were hired to go out and terrorise families. They were swearing instantly at children. Also it is quite ironic how at 26.48 the man is genuinely trying to do his job yet the sabs are critisizing him. Its the only thing that makes it legal!
Townies need to stop in towns, leave countryside alone
I agree with that, they don't have perspective, but it is important that foxes aren't hunted for pleasure or over hunted.
You can shoot 50 foxes a night with a lamp whats the big deal?
Exactly
A fish is considered a "sentient " creature. Why not ban Hook and line fishing, maybe beam trawlers that scoop up every creature from the sea is better ?
Foxes are a complete nightmare to those trying to make a SMALL living.
Saying that foxes are pest is too much. The foxes also need to survive and to survive they obviously need food. If anyone feels that foxes hunting the livestock is a pest, humans are also pests of mother nature. I know I am also a human, but that's exactly why I am saying this, we do not have the right to say anything about the foxes let alone hunting and killing them. The foxes too has their family why must we label them as pests?
the same reason u label rats as pests
@@foxiowfarmer1504 I don't label any animal as pests.
@@garcelleng1142 what would you do if your house was infested with rats, would you consider them pets and not pests.
"we are the figurehead of this tradition ( sic ) " Did any one else see the performative contradiction in this anonymous contribution from the kennels keeper? If he has so much admiration for his quarry and his charges for that matter how is it that he doesn't see the contradiction in throwing a fox that's been shot literally a second ago to dogs hungry enough to rip it's body to pieces? The pernicious effect of this activity and it's public opposition is the heart of darkness.
@Gert Bonk My dear Mr Bonk. Such a fitting sobriquet. Seasons greetings to you and yours!
I hunt for food.
But I don't agree with ripping up animals with dogs "for fun". Cos' their certainly not eating them after.
Yea well mate as a hunter you should know foxes are huge problems at the moment. Bet this very people love eating lamb. They won't be happy even if shot the bloody things
So ur telling me ye listen to a cubby curly chap and an lad with a mo hawk that does know his gender yet for information they don't even know 🙌
Reading this comment gave me a headache.
Since the 2004 act aren’t the hunt’s supposed to follow a scent?, and if a hunting party are caught in the act of killing a fox what is the legal charges that they can be convicted with?
It’s now illegal to kill foxes so why is the practice still so widely continued even though it’s prohibited- doing a uni project on hunting and poaching within the uk, if anyone can give me their point of view from both sides then that would be greatly appreciated 😋
Fox hunting is barbaric and cruel whoever agrees it's right to chase a fox and have it ripped apart is sick I will never understand these vile monsters who take part in this evil cruelty having said this theses morons have no respect for their own horses and hounds
It is absolutely not okay in the countryside to lunge at someone with a shogun you mug he’s just as much of a mug for doing it
I often think that if someone truly believes in something then they would not ask for they faces to be blurred but they know what they are doing is wrong. And don't want backlash from the public
What do u think about whistleblowers?
Oh but this is different? Backlash is backlash wtf is you comment
If someone truly believes in stopping hunting then they shouldn't wear a balaclava then, but I guess they know what they are doing is wrong. And don't want backlash from the public either. Works both ways ;-)
This annoying man has just made me get my lurcher ready to go hunting. Thanks for giving me the urge to get out in the cold mate, I’ll let you know how I get on.
Don't bother not interested,just don't come back.
So long as you don't "hunt" on horseback watching your dog do all the work, it's less apalling.
You're hard mate with your lurcher...
Oaft watch out the dafty with a lurchers out hunting
if it was travelers coursing hares feds would be there in seconds
Feds ? You from Texas ?
Yeah cause I could bet you it wouldn't be on there land there doing it on
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@@crob8742 would it make a difference on there own land apart from trespassing surely if the sports illegal it’s the illegal on there land or not the only difference is fox hunters make out they weren’t chasing the foxes anymore and they get caught accidentally but all there holes get blocked before the hunt I’m into shooting myself I haven’t got a problem with fox hunting I’ve got a problem with the unequal policing these days one rule for some people another for the toffs lol
@@mudratrick830 so would you care if I came and smoked weed in your back garden or would you prefer me to do it on my own land ??
I hate fox hunting but he is right there's two different things between firearm and shotgun licence
But he was trespassing
Never mind read it wrong x
Vile sport. Hats off to those trying to protect the foxes !
OK......having no natural predators,I understand the need to regulate the numbers of foxes for their own health....but hunting them with dogs is sickening and I truly believe the people involved or condoning the hunt will be rewarded....whether it be a loved one contracting Cancer or just simply bad luck in their own lives,there is a price to pay for this barbaric behavior....
Shame we can’t just toss one of these clowns to the hounds.....that,I would pay to see...!!!
Jax Are back how is it sickening? It is the most natural way for foxes to be hunted. It’s more natural than a person like me waiting in a hideout for 2 hours to then shoot it without it even knowing I’m there.
@@stokesy887 the idea of an animal cowering before a pack of gnashing teeth before being torn apart can not be the most humane way to cull foxes...miximatosis would be favourable...and that requires an animal disintigrating before your eyes...just sayin'....!
Bunch of townies
And you lot are a bunch of downies
17:25 flawless whip sound effects 😂
38:15 you know what they should make a serious crime in the UK trespassing, vandalism and interfering with a hunt thats a felony in my country. And after we convicted you of being a nuisance to society we start stripping you of Rights.
"In my country"
Mind your own business
Imagine thinking stripping somebody of their human rights is a good thing, simply because they disagree with fox hunting.
I don’t agree nor disagree with fox hunting, but nobody should have their human rights stripped by people who aren’t intelligent enough to conceptualise the importance and significance of them.
I feel fox hunting with hounds isn’t a humane way to do pest control, the better way is just use a strong enough round and a well placed shot. But people don’t just go for the foxes but go to enjoy the ride.
Where's the evidence that the population just balloons? You may think that they live off cattle or something, but they mainly eat vegetables, insects, rodents and rabbits. I used to live on a sheep farm and the number one cause of lambs dying was farmer negligence.
@@jeffbrunswick5511 👍
@@jeffbrunswick5511 I agree. Cattle are animals way too big for foxes to hunt. Foxes aren’t wolves; they’re much smaller than them.
6:25 more than 75% of the time the fox goes down the hole and they never get it
Lagan Greenbank no. The holes they were talking about the hunters dug to fool the foxes looking like a den. It is shallow enough for the dogs to get into though :/ this does allow an allaby for the cops aswell
"yeah if they fall behind they're shot" "they're starved before the hunt"
"ye theyre treated very well"
More sab bullshit.
@@DERKIFAL LOL
@@cherylno583 yeah, lies are really funny.
@@DERKIFAL i find it funny how you can call a valid point "More sab bullshit." please don't be so naive like you are rn, the guy on the video would literally have no reason to lie...
Yeah thats not true darling why would you shot the dog you’ve been training for years
These people are so disturbing. I can't believe they would just send their dogs out and watch the poor fox being ripped to shreds! It's terrible.
They are explaining in the video how they flush the hounds out with the dogs and then shot them
@@marthawilliams5837 They enjoy seeing animals tortured. It is a well known hobby of the rich elite.
Masked bandits rampaging around the countryside across private land, screaming and attacking riders and trying to gain control of a pack of hounds when the huntsmen is trying to call them back to keep them away from roads an railway lines is also quite disturbing.
They kill the foxes and then display the corpses on the intenet then they complain to the police they get a bit of
criticism
All I see wrong is a load of trespassing.
Ricky Downing exactly!!! Masked terrorists
I also see sadism? Did you miss that part or?
To me there is absolutely no sense in hunting a fox down with 30 or 40 dogs, while one or two good trained dogs could push a fox towards a rifle at a normal driven hunt and they don´t have to tear the animal into pieces... still you can regulate the population in an more efficient way, I think this speaks for itself. Only because it is a law in some country it doesn´t mean it is the right and the most efficient or intelligent thing to do....or why did the most countries illegalize the fox hunt already?! ....
I am a hunter from Germany and these are just some thoughts of mine you can overthink if you like. It is not meant to be an personal offense to those who still practice the fox hunt somewhere else.
It's actually illegal in the UK to hunt any mammals with dogs, but some people think they are above the law.
@@ordinarymonkey thx for your answer :).
LOVED THE END OF THIS WITH BOTH OF THEM SITTING THERE, AND KIND OF AGREEING TO DISAGREE. Mutual respect i would hope, just different sides of the fence.
Honestly fox hunting should be allowed but not in that cruel way if your hunting get you a rifle and make sure it dies in one shot and not let it suffer
Kevin is obviously a clueless rocket!
I dont know how anyone can watch this without coming to the conclusion that 'kevin' gets his kicks from winding folk up.
he was deffo touched as a kid
I think killing foxes is fine as long as you don’t let your hounds kill them. Make it quick and humane.
So if they have to be shot and not mauled to death.. how are they preventing that when they send the hounds in without muzzles on??
Fox hunting disgust’s me
literally dont bring those guys into japan.
“The only reason these people do it is because they enjoy riding horses and killing foxes” erm…. Yes! Why not?
If they actually tried it for themselves they'd change their tune, hunting is in our nature just the same as dogs, these people born and raised in cities havent the foggiest about the real world.
Not really into the ripping fox's to shreds thing, but that guy with the weird haircut is just the sort of guy that gets me riled, I see people enjoying themselves, lets go ruin their day, and would apply that logic to any situation, just the sight of him and those like him get my blood boiling.
Aww stfu ya rocket
Let’s go and ruin their day? Are you for real?? How about they helped the fox having his day ruined! If you think people enjoying themselves watching an animal being torn apart alive is enjoying, you and them need a serious reality check.
use drone to film their illegal hunting
I visit the countryside for leisure and all these people do is give us town dwellers like hikers, campers and mountain bikers a bad name! Organisations like the ramblers association are sick and tired of hunt sabs because they are undoing all their hard work to allow public access to private land!
Angus Meigh don’t go on private land then...there’s plenty of public trails you can enjoy without trespassing onto private land
@Laurent Courtois its not hunters land, its owned by the farmers. also you're allowed to legally observe a fox hunt which is why saabing exists
British hunters seem to be more aggressive than American hunters. What you think?
I remember when UNILAD was fun and hadn't been taken over by a bunch of lefty feminists...
I couldn't think of a worse way to spend my weekend then being in a group with people that have nothing to do, so they chase some people on horses with dogs.
Luckily people couldn’t give a fuck what you think
Then you don’t understand what’s going on
Do You support What the people on the horses with dogs are doing then? Bc it is illegal What They are doing. The people chasing them to try and stop them are heroes!
@@kingwacky184 I think you have misread what the person has said. They are saying they couldn’t think of a worse way to spend a weekend as a sab chasing people on horses with dogs. Hence why I said “then you don’t understand why they do it” as in the sabs. I don’t support fox hunting
"people on horse with dogs" is that the defining feature of these people? Just ignoring the fact that they are breaking the law and getting a thrill out of torturing an animal to death?
Government pays us per fox tail in Australia, it’s great, pays for the trip 🎉😂