Joined by friends from Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs and Somerset Hunt Saboteur Group, we took time out from badger cull activities to remind the Dulverton Farmers’ Hunt that they are not going unwatched. They met for evening cubbing near Mariansleigh, from where they took off and tried to hide from us but had soon given up and were back on the road. We marched them back to their meet by 5pm. They didn’t manage more than an hour or two.
They were very upset to see us, one of them even got in a strop and nicked one of our citronella bottles, then threw it over a hedge at a tractor. We were impressed with their quick thinking when all three quads stopped and looked out into a field, hoping all our foot sabs would assume the hounds had gone that way. They forgot one of our vehicles was with the hounds and redcoat at the time, just a bit further along the road, but well done for trying Dulvy.
As that tactic failed they decided to instead to call the police, who arrived in force with three cop cars and a police liaison vehicle (which hid round the corner). Police blocked the road and got in the way of hunt and sabs, and everyone else who was trying to drive past, while they took driver details, and totally ignored the quads and trailers without number plates, the question of why they needed terriers, and the illegal hunting itself. While we faffed with the police the hunt boxed up. With them grumpily going home and the hounds back to the kennels that’s us back to badgers until next time.
Thanks to Sheffield sabs for photos and hit report.
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