You did it! 76,816 of @NationalTrust members have voted for the motion, while 38,184 voted against. With this result, major landowners must end hunting on their land today. Yay result
I might pop into the local NT gift shop for a look round, and tell them why I haven’t been in for such a long time. And let them know that if the motion isn’t acted on, I won’t be in again. One hopes that the volunteers who man the shop will pass such comments back to those that matter.
We don't generally see fox hunts round here. The stag hunts are a blinkin' nuisance. I assume from the wording they are also covered by this vote.
I would guess the NT may go with a partial ban - probably enforced on the estates with the grand houses, but the land only ones, such as we have near here, maybe not.
With huge land stretches such as along the coasts and here, on Exmoor, where there's no entry charge and therefore not much in the way of boundary fence, if the hunts are on a neighbouring estate and the dogs put a stag up which runs onto NT land, they don't have sufficient control to call them off, not all of them - I've watched it happen. They call the pack back but a few dogs, the ones nearest the stag, will keep running until the master actually catches them. So even if they ban scent trails from NT land, there's nothing to say there won't be hunting of deer or foxes.
It won't stop until it's actually banned to go out into the countryside with a big pack of dogs. Well done all those who marshalled the vote though - public opinion ought to be heard. Action takes a little longer, as ever
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One hopes that the volunteers who man the shop will pass such comments back to those that matter.
I would guess the NT may go with a partial ban - probably enforced on the estates with the grand houses, but the land only ones, such as we have near here, maybe not.
With huge land stretches such as along the coasts and here, on Exmoor, where there's no entry charge and therefore not much in the way of boundary fence, if the hunts are on a neighbouring estate and the dogs put a stag up which runs onto NT land, they don't have sufficient control to call them off, not all of them - I've watched it happen. They call the pack back but a few dogs, the ones nearest the stag, will keep running until the master actually catches them. So even if they ban scent trails from NT land, there's nothing to say there won't be hunting of deer or foxes.
It won't stop until it's actually banned to go out into the countryside with a big pack of dogs. Well done all those who marshalled the vote though - public opinion ought to be heard. Action takes a little longer, as ever
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
If they enforced those laws, it wouldn't be much of a hunt without the dogs