Thursday, February 17, 2005
HUNT WON'T BREAK THE LAW
FOX HUNTING: Hunt will not break the law says master
AN opponent of the Government's hunting ban has promised he will obey the new law when he rides out this weekend.
George Bowyer, joint master of the 300-year-old Fitzwilliam Hunt, has criticised the Hunting Bill.However, when the hunt rides out on land near Peterborough on Saturday, Mr Bowyer has conceded he will not encourage riders to break the law which bans hunting with dogs.
He said: "Who am I to tell my staff to break the law?"
"As a hunt, we're going to keep going, and to keep going we've got to raise money to pay the wages."Mr Bowyer said they would carry out legal activities that are allowed, including trail hunting, where dogs follow an artificial scent and flush hunting, where two dogs are used to get a fox into the open before it is shot.
He added he would try to get the law overturned.
Gail Record, a member of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire Animal Rights Coalition, said the pro-hunt supporters' acceptance of the new law sounded a death knell for hunting with dogs.
She said: "This shows it's the end of the day for them."
AN opponent of the Government's hunting ban has promised he will obey the new law when he rides out this weekend.
George Bowyer, joint master of the 300-year-old Fitzwilliam Hunt, has criticised the Hunting Bill.However, when the hunt rides out on land near Peterborough on Saturday, Mr Bowyer has conceded he will not encourage riders to break the law which bans hunting with dogs.
He said: "Who am I to tell my staff to break the law?"
"As a hunt, we're going to keep going, and to keep going we've got to raise money to pay the wages."Mr Bowyer said they would carry out legal activities that are allowed, including trail hunting, where dogs follow an artificial scent and flush hunting, where two dogs are used to get a fox into the open before it is shot.
He added he would try to get the law overturned.
Gail Record, a member of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire Animal Rights Coalition, said the pro-hunt supporters' acceptance of the new law sounded a death knell for hunting with dogs.
She said: "This shows it's the end of the day for them."
