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Huntsman calls hounds onto a busy main road

Atherstone Hunt - Newton Burgoland - Saturday 17th November 2017

**Huntsman calls hounds onto a busy main road**

**Fox hunted**

The Atherstone Hunt met at the The Odd House Restaurant and Pub at Snarestone, Newton Burgoland. After two months of keeping the hounds by his side it seems Bill Bishop is now having problems controlling the hounds. Foot sabs caught Bishop hunting a fox near Measham. Sabs in the vehicle where able cover the foxes tracks and ensure it got away safely.

Huntsman pulls hounds onto busy main road.

Hunts often like to lie about sabs pulling hounds onto busy main roads, we’ve never seen any proof of this. However on Saturday we did witness Atherstone Huntsman Bill Bishop blowing his horn on a main road and pulling hounds onto the B4116. A few passing motorists stopped and told us how shocking they thought it was and how dangerous. We know fox hunts don’t care about their hounds and this seems especially true of Bill Bishop. So far this season we have filmed him hitting one of his hounds with his whip because its barking was annoying him. He didn’t seem to care that one of his hounds had a bad eye injury last week and now he has put his hounds lives in danger by calling them onto a busy road. We asked Bishop and the Atherstone Hunt why they were doing this Bishop shrugged his shoulders indicating he didn't care the rest of the hunt chose to answer our perfectly reasonable question. One of their own hunt supporters agreed with us that there was no need for Bishop to put his hounds in danger.

We made sure no more foxes were hunted for the rest of the day.

Leicestershire Police made another rare appearance today although we don’t understand why they bother turning up. They stayed in their cars all morning and conveniently kept themselves out of the way when the fox was being hunted and the hunt were all over the B4116 road. We’re not sure how much money Leicestershire Police are spending on sending out officers to fox hunts but they let the Atherstone Hunt hunt a fox under their noses and be a public nuisance on the B4116. Although this fits in nicely with the general ethos of #OperationBlackthorn.

Please ask Leicestershire Police why they send officers to the Atherstone Hunt if they are just going to sit in their car all morning and let them illegally hunt foxes?

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