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Native hunter gatherers express their opposition to Bloodsports 10 Oct 2012 | 01:53 pm
Sarah Pettygoose of the First Nation People of Ontario, Canada is sending a specially made fox sculpture for us. The First Nation people have put it through their ceremonies so that it can carry stren...
The end of another cub-hunting season the beginning of the new Minority Pastime … 18 Oct 2011 | 04:35 am
We are nearly at the end of another cub-hunting season and the hunts have been seen out there doing it … the sabs are out there trying to stop them … the monitors are out there trying to film them. An...
Untitled 17 Oct 2011 | 11:33 am
Two descriptions today of the Tedworth Hunt. One is in the article by Robert McCrum in The Observer and the other given to me by a sab who sabbed them yesterday. Using a day out with Tedworth as his p...
Society Will Become Less Equal 24 Jun 2010 | 10:45 pm
Our film, Minority Pastime, asks David Cameron why he wants to make hunting legal again. Whilst the Conservative Party remain committed to repealing the Hunting Act 2004, re-legalising hunting wild m...
Emergency Budget 23 Jun 2010 | 09:58 pm
The ConDem budget has reaffirmed two things – the Lib Dems are not to be trusted and Tories don’t care about anything or anyone outside their own constituency. Minority Pastime has always felt that th...
Update 24 Apr 2010 | 08:51 pm
With less than 2 weeks to the election Minority Pastime is slowly making its mark. Our main aim was always to put this issue on the agenda for public debate. It’s bubbling just under the surface now a...
Apology to the Ghelligaer Hunt… 7 Mar 2010 | 12:24 am
We have just been informed that information published in a blog on this site inaccurately identified the Ghelligaer Hunt as being in the area when the hunting hound became suspended on iron railings. ...
Three things 20 Feb 2010 | 01:21 pm
Three things. One: going about my life I suddenly saw them, the local hunt in their lorry – redcoats hunched in the front, hound faces pushing through bars. Off to a meet. The immediate anxiety. Where...
It was a strange moment… 16 Feb 2010 | 12:12 pm
Looking out over a beautiful stretch of the Dorset countryside… and wondering, where are they now?… peering into the hills for a tell-tale glimpse or moving figures on horseback, or hounds spreading o...
‘We endeavour to hunt with the permission of the landowner….’ 12 Feb 2010 | 08:33 pm
Last week the Warwickshire hunt invaded private land dedicated to wildlife and conservation…where foxes live. What will be the effect on the foxes? Will they leave their safe place? The hunt Master sa...
