The Eggesford hunt killed a fox in front of sabs at their Opening Meet. Sadly we believe the hunt may have killed on more than one occasion that day, and hounds were found marking other foxes to ground twice. Devon & Cornwall’s finest arrived on scene right at the end, as usual many hours too late.

After Jason’s boring half-hour long speech, he left the meet at Sydney House on the edge of Chulmleigh and took his field of 15 riders north-east through the village and on via a kale field towards Horridge Moor. Hounds quickly picked up on the scent of a fox here and were seen running on a line across the valley. Sabs tried their best to intervene, although the hunt covered a lot go ground very quickly. They were found marking the fox to ground eventually at Cadbury Barton. Sabs kept an eye on the location to prevent a digout.

The hunt spent the rest of the afternoon mostly in the area between Horridge Moor and East Garland Farm, putting up several hares and pursuing a number of foxes. Sabs intervened whenever possible to split up the pack and take hounds off the various foxes and hares they were chasing. As they made their way back south, hounds picked up a scent near Challacombe Cross and chased this fox into a patch of gorse in the valley. Jason encouraged hounds on with horn and voice and unfortunately they bolted this fox from the gorse and killed in front of sabs. Sabs retrieved the fox’s body while Jason congratulated the hounds. See the video below:

WARNING: Distressing Footage

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Three members of the Eggesford Hunt brutally attacked sabs. Property was stolen and a sab had to be airlifted to hospital.

DCHS, along with one of our good friends from Somerset Hunt Sabs, hit the Eggesford Hunt’s meet at Cliston, Sampford Courtenay. Conditions were very wet with rain for most of the day and many of the streams having overflowed their banks to flood paths. Most of our sabs ended up soaked, with boots full of water by the end of the day, but a bit of water will never deter us.
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We were due to pay the Eggesford a visit, and we’re so glad we did yesterday, as we saved two foxes hunted to ground in badger setts. See our footage of the second dig-out.

The hunt met at Higher Densham in Black Dog. Within seconds of leaving the meet into the river valley to the south, hounds were in full cry. One of our foot teams was ideally positioned to intercept them as they scrambled through a thick hedge on the line of a fox. Hounds then ran a full circle before huntsman Jason Marles caught up with them again, by which time the pack was split across a half mile stretch between Higher Menchinedown and Woolfardisworthy. While Marles was busy trying to get his pack back together, some groups of hounds could be heard speaking and one of our vehicles witnessed a fox run across the road not far from them. Sabs covered her scent with citronella and she got away.
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We spent a lot of time with the Eggesford Hunt last season. They hunt and kill with impunity and have a history of violence towards our sabs. But with so many hunts in Devon we have been spreading the love around this season so Eggesford were well overdue a full day of our attention. They met at Higher Cliston farm near Sampford Courtenay where we situated sab teams in opportune positions. The new huntsman, Jason Marles (who comes from dubious pedigree with a father sentenced to six months for assaulting an elderly female monitor in 2009 when he was huntsman with East Devon Hunt and a brother convicted of illegal hunting whilst he was whipper-in with the Middleton Hunt in 2013) led a vastly diminished field of seven riders and a bedraggled bunch of followers in vehicles and on quads.
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