Silverton Hunt met at Creedy Barton near Newton St Cyres on Saturday, owned by Hunt Master and mortgage adviser Angie Prouse, who once again treated us to her best banshee impression.
The hunt left the meet in direction of Wyke Cross, drawing a couple of kale fields between the roads and the railway line on the way. They then spent an hour mostly riding around fields between Higher Rewe and Furze, doing very little active hunting.
The whole thing was very lacklustre and hunt support who had come along for the day looked decidedly bored, resorting to abusive language, childish hand-signals and kicking mud at sabs to vent their frustration. Most of this lot are grown adults but you wouldn’t know if all you had to go on was their behaviour around sabs!
The hunt were also accompanied by a handful of quad bikes, some of them equipped to digout foxes. With 3 of our vehicles and 20 sabs keeping an eye on their every move, they weren’t going to have much of an opportunity for that either. Instead they amused themselves doughnutting around sabs in the field and swerving into sabs who were walking on the road. Some of the terriermen were the same ones who viciously assaulted and robbed two of our sabs on a public road last season. The hunt can thank them for our visit and for every other visit going forward.
Devon & Cornwall’s finest were soon on hand, blocking roads, stopping only our vehicles to obtain drivers’ details, and demanding to smell what was in our citronella bottles. We hope the hunt also let them have a sniff of their ‘trail-laying fluid’ and treated them to a demonstration of “plausible trail-laying”?! Based on our experience with Devon & Cornwall Police and their insistence that they are always overstretched and can’t afford to send anyone out when we call them, we can only assume the hunt either pulled some strings or fabricated a load of nonsense (probably both) in order to get a police response. You really wouldn’t think this was the force that was in charge of investigating the leaked Hunting Office webinars which recently saw the hunting world’s head honcho convicted for training hunt masters from around the country in how to break the law and get away with it!
By 2pm the hunt were back at the meet all boxed-up and headed for home. Job done.
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