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Below is the result of a post mortem performed on 5/10/02
on a vixen killed during a cubbing meet of
the Cheshire
Forest Hunt at Whitley. This fox was clearly disemboweled by the
hounds.
On 5/10/02 at 8.00am members of The North West Hunt
Saboteurs Association (NWHSA) attended a cubbing meet of the Cheshire
Forest Hunt at The Millstone Inn, near Whitley on the A49, south of
Warrington. Cub hunting is the secret side of fox hunting, it is carried
out well away from the eyes of the public. This callous activity is
carried out at the beginning of autumn, by all foxhunts, to train new
hounds to kill fox cubs.
Using various methods of non-violent direct action tactics they were
to able to save the lives of many foxes. However, during the course of
the morning the hunt put the pack of hounds into a kale field where they
found a young vixen. When the vixen tried to escape the field she was
forced back to the waiting hounds by a hunt supporter, where she was
killed.
Three members of the NWHSA managed to save the body despite violence
and threats from members of the hunt. The vixen was then rushed to a
vets where a post mortem was carried out, the results of which are below:
I examined the above animal she had been
dead for approximately two hours. There were puncture wounds
to her neck, but not enough to cause death.
There were large puncture wounds to the right flank with heart and lungs
exposed. The liver was prolapsed on the right flank. There were was a
large wound to the ventral abdomen with the abdominal contents outside
the body.
The likely cause of death is the disembowelment and puncture to the thoracic
cavity combined.
Paul Timpson spokesperson for the NWHSA stated 'This fox was clearly
disemboweled by the hounds as there was a number of wounds across the
stomach, but no obvious bites to the neck. Hunt supporters always claim
that the fox is always killed by a 'quick' nip to the back of the neck,
yet again this post mortem exposes their lies. It is extremely rare that
we manage to retrieve any evidence from hunts, especially something as
horrific as this.
Another
fox killed by Cheshire Forest Hunt 20/12/01 (with post mortem)
Hunt Chaos
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