Footage taken by activists from the League Against Cruel Sports show hunts out with packs of foxhounds during the latest hunting season, which ended in March.
Animal campaigners claim new laws to prevent illegal fox hunting with packs of dogs are being flouted.
Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. The Hunting with Dogs Act came into force last October and means hunters cannot use packs of hounds to flush out wild mammals unless they have a licence.The original legislation allowed dogs to flush foxes out from cover as long as they were then shot, rather than killed by hounds - and providing the hunt was to protect livestock or ground-nesting birds, or to prevent the spread of disease.
The government recognised that farmers need to be able to protect their livestock and so the new bill includes a licensing scheme to allow more dogs to be used in certain circumstances. “Simulated hunting” is a term used by at least one hunt which, according to The League, uses the same foxhounds previously used to search for foxes prior to change in the law.
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