BOXING DAY PROTEST AGAINST HUNTING. Newport. 2017

Protest against the Tredagar Farmers Fox Hunt.
Outside The Tredegar Arms pub, Bassaleg, Caerphilly Rd, Newport South Wales.
Boxing Day is the biggest day of the hunting calender. Please join our Protest against hunting. We will stand united to show the hunters & their supporters that hunting will not be tolerated in a civilised society.

JUST SOME PAST HISTORY OF THE TREDEGAR HUNT
A former fox hunter & employee of the Tredegar Farmers Fox Hunt, the late Clifford Pellow, revealed the full scale of bloodsport’s barbarity.

Clifford Pellow, who hunted professionally for 23 years, spoke of how a hunt master crushed three pups with his heel after hounds tore a pregnant vixen apart.
Speaking of his own experiences Clifford Pellow who was huntsman with the Tredegar Farmers Hunt, stated “The things we were doing to foxes was just ­unbelievable. We would put them in sacks. We tied them up by the legs and dragged them across the fields to leave a scent. It was absolutely disgusting. “In the end I got sick of all the gross cruelty and all the killing.”
He told of one truly horrendous moment when hounds pulled a pregnant fox from her den and ripped her apart.
Afterwards, the hunt master put the heel of his boot on the three squirming pups that had been inside her and crushed them.

He added: “On one occasion we had a live fox in a sack which we tipped out in the field, but before it was tipped out they allowed the hounds to bite into the sack.

“There were other times when foxes were brought from somewhere else, so they didn’t know where they were.
A fox brought in was trapped in a wood and then allowed to run across a few fields into a farm where it fell into the slurry pit. The farmer’s son shot it.“It fell in because it didn’t know the pit was there, simple as that.

“Another time they dragged a fox across a couple of fields into a dry ditch before flinging the rope over a branch of a tree.
“They hoisted it up, and then let it drop a bit so the hounds could bite it. They kept doing this to work the hounds up. In the end they just dropped it into the pack of hounds.

“I remember looking at the fox being kept in the milk churn and thinking, ‘Tomorrow, you’ll be dead’. former fox hunter disgusted by the sport is leading the fight to block its return.

Clifford Pellow said that he got sick of the cruelty” as he revealed the full horror of vile hunts.

With 23 years of hunts behind him involving the horrific deaths of more than 2,000 foxes, there was little that Clifford did not know about the bloodsport.

So that made the former professional huntsman ideally placed to lift the lid on the full disgusting barbarity of hunting with hounds. Clifford, who turned his back on his livelihood after becoming sickened by the brutal methods used to ensure foxes were ripped to bits, lead the fight to block Tory plans to bring back the banned bloodsport.

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