00:00 Going up to the farm, eh?
00:02 You want to go right now?
00:04 Yeah.
00:06 So, they'll know we're here now.
00:10 Yeah. 100%.
00:12 We're going in Wadgers Wood.
00:14 Copy that, we're going in Wadgers Wood now from the south.
00:18 The hunt is on the other side of the wood at the moment.
00:22 It's good to have a footing here in case they move our way.
00:28 We have to keep ourselves with them on the other side.
00:30 They have eyes on them.
00:32 (footsteps)
00:34 (indistinct chatter)
00:42 (horns honking)
00:44 (indistinct chatter)
00:58 (wind)
01:00 They want people to believe that trail hunting is a person running through a field with a rag with a scent on it that the hounds will then follow and no foxes are harmed.
01:20 That's not what they're doing. It's not what they're doing at all.
01:24 They are still hunting as normal. They're hunting foxes.
01:28 The law is weak enough that they can still get away with it.
01:32 So, and for a long time the police have been believing them, the public have been believing them.
01:36 And it's been, we've had to work very hard to show the powers that be and the public exactly what they are doing.
01:42 That they are still hunting foxes, they are still chasing foxes, they are still killing foxes.
01:46 Every time these hunts go out.
01:48 An area, a wooded area that could contain foxes.
01:52 (wind)
01:54 (indistinct chatter)
01:56 Why have they been sent in there if not to hunt?
02:02 (wind)
02:04 (horns honking)
02:12 (wind)
02:14 These hunters that we're at today, the furlough hunt, they have been convicted of illegal hunting before.
02:28 In March 2019 they were convicted.
02:30 And this is the sort of person who you'll find in your regular hunt. An abusive, belligerent thug.
02:38 I believe in what I do. I don't care about my name being out there.
02:42 They know where I live. I've had death threats. I've had dead rats sent to me in the post.
02:46 I've had dead foxes left on my car windscreen. I don't care.
02:50 I'm going to carry on until I've put them all out of business. If I live long enough.
02:54 Alright, North London to all saps on channel. Huntsman and hounds are spilling onto the road in front of us, heading in the direction of the kennels. Over.
03:04 (wind)
03:06 Trail hunting is widespread. It's what the hunts do. There's 200 packs of hounds going out twice, sometimes four times a week, different hunts.
03:18 And they go out, they lay trails. And it's designed to simulate traditional hunting, which is why it looks the same.
03:23 People wear the same clothing, they still use the hunting horn, they still use packs of hounds.
03:27 And much of the tradition is kept around it.
03:30 It's really difficult when the hunt saboteurs get a hunting horn out and they play music, because they're trying to take control of those hounds.
03:37 It's a bit like you're driving a car and someone in the passenger seat tries to take your steering wheel.
03:41 (wind)
03:43 (shouting)
03:49 Oh yeah, it was fake. They got him.
03:56 They got him?
03:57 Yeah, they got him.
03:59 (wind)
04:01 (radio chatter)
04:03 (wind)
04:08 You come and get me please.
04:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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