Friday, June 24, 2016

United Kingdom: Shocking moment fox cubs are put into kennels with hunting dogs ‘to train them to kill’

UNITED KINGDOM -- LIVE fox cubs are allegedly being put into the kennels of hunting hounds, to train the dogs to kill.

Footage secretly filmed at the South Herefordshire Hunt kennels apparently shows a man picking up two baby foxes and carrying them into the dogs' enclosure, before removing the lifeless bodies.


In a process called 'cubbing', where dogs are trained to kill foxes, the man carries the struggling cubs from cages one by one by the scruff of the neck, and after putting each in with the hounds a whooping noise is heard and sound of barking begins.

 

The whooping noise is apparently made by the man and is to encourage the dogs to hunt, as it calls on the animals to attack.

Each fox is brought out not moving and looking lifeless and dumped in a bin.

Activists, the Hunt Investigation Team, studied the bodies found in the bin seen in the footage recorded in May.


One of the team, who remained anonymous when she spoke to the BBC, said: "They don't naturally hunt foxes. They have to be taught to recognize foxes as prey and not only to hunt them but also to kill them.

"We believe this evidence shows fox cubs were actually thrown to the hounds because the bodies came out.

"When our investigators took those fox cubs out, one of them was disemboweled, one of them has multiple bite wounds. Our feeling is that they were fed live to the hounds."

 

The bodies have been passed on to police and the kennels are closed.

Three people arrested in May and June, a 37-year-old man from Hereford, a 27-year-old woman from Hereford and a 37-year-old man from Abergavenny, have since been released on bail.

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