Hunting foxes with hounds was supposed to have ended in 2005, following the passage of the Hunting Act the year before. Although numerous successful prosecutions are brought under the Hunting Act each year, this hasn’t stopped the process of hunting from continuing. At the last election, the Tories promised a free vote on the Hunting Act. Recently, there was a vote on whether to continue trail hunting on National Trust land. “The truth is that if they were genuinely trail hunting they would use an artificial scent rather than fox urine.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 06:00 UTC