On Saturday we chased the “Stoke Hill & Dartmoor” Beagles out of Devon! We put their name in quotation marks because this hunt no longer seem to be kennelled anywhere near Stoke Hill (on the edge of Exeter), nor north Dartmoor, nor even Devon! Having spectacularly fallen out with their previous hosts, the Silverton Foxhounds (apparently the Silverton didn’t feed the beagles due to rent arrears!), this hunt had to go all the way to the middle of Cornwall to find a willing host for their pack. We hear they are now kennelled with the Four Burrow Hunt in Redruth.

Saturday was a good day for hares, and a bad day for hare hunters. We found several pickup trucks meeting at Brousentor Farm, near Bagga Tor on Dartmoor. Sabs closed in on them before they even had a chance to unload the hound trailer. Instead this poor pack of beagles were left wailing in the back, whilst the hunt members ate pasties, trying so hard to pretend like we didn’t just completely ruin their day.

It was a busy day on Dartmoor, with groups of schoolchildren training for the ten tors. We wonder what they would’ve thought about an illegal hare hunt happening right next to them.

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