What Do You Think of This?

“There are two things that really sicken me with what happened. First how the pack were allowed into a built up area without supervision, and secondly that dog died a slow painful death and was left to hang there for hours in sight of children playing in the park. These people don’t give a damn about human or animals’ wellbeing.”


interesting the first thing he thought! and that the dog was in sight of children..what about the poor dog..
 
I think that whoever left the hound there (and they say that a number of non-hunting locals were appalled to see it) needs to be shot. It's NOT impaled, it has got it's neck caught between the two uprights and it's head is too big to pull out backward and of course there is little for it to get a hold of to push itself off. The blood is caused by it ripping its feet open trying. My EBT did this trying to jump into my neighbour's garden, they saw it happen and lifted her off and we modified the (wooden) fence so it couldn't happen again.

All it would have taken is someone to lift the poor animal off, rather than take photos, leave it and get the LACS involved. What utter shits.
 
Hmmmmm - do we believe this happened? I can't imagine ANY huntsman around here just leaving a hound like that - they care religiously for each and every one of them, and I doubt if that is much different in Wales... Could it perhaps be a staged photo? Just seems very odd. Are there any newspaper reports/responses from the hunt concerned?
 
Utterly terrible, but I am guessing misconstruede as posted on what seems to be an anti hunting site. I doubt very much that the poor thing was left there for 4 hours.

Terrible all the same.
 
Looked staged to me. It does not appear that the hound is impaled but is caught between the two uprights. As already said it could not have been impossible to lift the dog off and I very much doubt it would have been left there for four hours.

Anti-hunting propaganda (and no, I don't hunt).
 
I'm doubting the trueness of that artical too...no hunt I know would do that let alone leave them to 'rampage through' anywhere on there own as a pack??

Whole page seems to be geared towards making a meal out of it to benefit anti-hunting...that's the gist I got from it anyway!
 
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Hmmmmm - do we believe this happened? I can't imagine ANY huntsman around here just leaving a hound like that - they care religiously for each and every one of them, and I doubt if that is much different in Wales... Could it perhaps be a staged photo? Just seems very odd. Are there any newspaper reports/responses from the hunt concerned?

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My first thought too. The hound is not impaled and the blood is on the wrong side of the fence. If the hound had been scrabbling to get off the fence then the blood would be on the same side as the hound - if that makes sense. The blood is also smeared in a big circle.......It defo looks stagged.
 
So did the person who took the pic help? How was it allowed to stay like that for four hours?

My dog (grey fella in my sig) got stuck inside a compound with a fence like this (he wiggled in but because of the shape of the pikes, he could not get out again). My friend put a coat over the spikes and threw him back over. He would have weighed about 30kg at the time. One young man, not a whole village!

Interesting spread of blood on the wrong side of the fence.

Ballcocks, if you ask me....
 
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this link might work better for some:
http://www.aminoritypastime.net/blog/abandoned-to-fate

I too feel it's been staged.

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Thanks. As if they'd leave a hound if they knew it was there! I don't know any maaster/huntsman/kennelman who would leave a hound in this state if they had found it. Also, if people stood around watching, why didn't anyone try to help the hound/call a vet?

They got the spelling of the hunt's name wrong in that piece
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I usually hunt with another local pack but have been out with the Gelligaer and can't imagine they would do this. I will ask my YO (a master of a hunt that has joint meets with the Gelligaer) if he knows anything about it. If it's not true (I don't think it is) it's liable, surely?
 
I could be wrong but I think this might have been discussed in the hunting part of this forum a couple of months ago and it was found to be fake
 
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I could be wrong but I think this might have been discussed in the hunting part of this forum a couple of months ago and it was found to be fake

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*shocked*

Not
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I'll still have a word with YO so he can tell the master fo the Gelligaer if he doesn't already know. It's really not on to be pinning this on a particular hunt, in print, and circulating it around the web.
 
Thanks for all your comments: I'm just curious to know what others thought of this. I, too, find it very difficult to believe that it happened exactly as described, so somehow the full story doesn't seem to be there. However I definitely don't think the situation as given is impossible: hunts can move so quickly, the incodent may simply have gone unnoticed rather than the dog deliberately being left there.
Zoeshiloh - I would be interested to hear their reply ...
 
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