give this a read

[paulredtop 8]

This was in the liverpool echo its going to make it on top for the genuwine lurcher lads just copyed and pasted it thats why its long.

 

 

 

THE ECHO can today reveal the shocking extent of illegal hunting in Merseyside’s parks.

 

Gun-toting gangs are setting their dogs on defenceless wild animals and watching as they are ripped to shreds.

 

And anyone who challenges their sickening hobby is threatened with violence.

 

One Merseyside councillor was knocked unconscious in front of his terrified 11-year-old son after confronting a gang.

 

A laughing mob pointed a rifle at a 48-year-old mother before threatening to kill her pet cats.

 

And another woman watched in horror as two hunting dogs ripped off part of her mongrel’s ear as they walked in the park.

 

Foxes and other wild animals used to be a common sight in Huyton’s 220-acre Stadt Moers Park. But their numbers have dropped significantly over the past 12 months.

 

Last week police swooped on the Knowsley common as part of a two-night crackdown on illegal hunters.

 

Undercover officers hid in the undergrowth to catch those involved.

 

It follows growing concerns in the community about the wanton killing sprees taking place in the park.

 

Shocked locals in the Huyton area have reported seeing:

 

The bodies of mutilated cats in the park.

 

Youths shaking tree branches to hunt down squirrels as a pack of dogs bayed on the ground.

 

Camouflaged gangs getting out of vans daubed with the words No Hunting Ban.

 

Late night bloodcurdling screams echoing throughout the neighbourhood as wild animals meet their death.

 

The sinister sight of lights carried by hunting gangs moving furtively around the park after dark, clearly visible from upstairs windows.

 

Wildlife police said the pastime appeals to all age groups with men taking their teenage sons along on hunts to “blood’†them.

 

Some take away their dead prey as trophies of their night’s work.

 

Merseyside police’s wildlife crime officer Steve Harris said Bold, in St Helens, Crosby, Altcar and the Wirral were also hunting hotspots.

 

A police crackdown seems to have driven illegal hunters out of Croxteth Park

 

Mr Harris said: “We hear of a lot of incidents involving men hunting animals with dogs. It’s a gruesome business.

 

“There’s lots of intelligence that suggests Merseyside men travel the length and breadth of the country to do it.

 

“As a Liverpool district judge said recently it’s cruel and wicked, done for sheer enjoyment to simply rip the animal to pieces.â€

 

A 27-year-old Huyton woman, who does not want to be identified, decided to speak out after her dog was savaged.

 

Part of the cross breed mongrel’s ear was ripped off as she walked the dog at 9.30pm on a Sunday.

 

She said: “We were walking Rocky when my dad sensed something was in the bushes.

 

“A lurcher and a greyhound came running out and chased our dog into the woods. My dad ran after them.

 

“When the lad in his 20s realised it wasn’t a fox, he shone his torch and blew a whistle and his dogs left ours and went away.

 

“Rocky was left with a puncture wound to his neck and his ear was gouged in the middle.

 

“It’s been saved but it’s cost us £400 in vets fees.â€

 

Kicked in face by yobs

 

A KNOWSLEY councillor today told how he was beaten unconscious by a hunting gang.

 

Mike Currie, 58, Lib Dem ward member for the St Gabriel’s area of Huyton, said he was attacked while walking through Stadt Moers.

 

“I went out with my 11-year-old son to feed the foxes when I saw a lad who looked like he was up to no good.

 

“I was very polite and said ‘I hope you’re not here to hunt foxes’.

 

“The next minute he’s telling me he’s got a knife and he’s going to stab me as my son is standing next to me.

 

“Then he made a call on his mobile phone and two other blokes came down and attacked me.

 

“They beat me to the ground and kicked me in the face until I lost consciousness.

 

“The situation is horrendous. I have seen nine foxes in one day in the past. Now I never see any.

 

“The park can be intimidating because of its dense undergrowth and the type of people who go there now.â€

 

Shining light on night terror

 

HUNTING at night with the aid of powerful lamps and either guns or dogs is known as lamping.

 

Animals associated with this form of hunting include deer, fox, rabbit, hare and badger.

 

In day hunting, terriers are sent into tunnels and spades and nets are used to trap the prey.

 

Dogs can be fitted with electronic tracker devices and when the alarm signals a trapped prey the gang digs out the cornered animal.

 

An iron bar is used to knock the animal unconscious before it is thrown to the pack of dogs.

 

Sometimes, to make sure the dogs are not injured, the animal is stabbed or its legs broken so it cannot fight back.

[poacher3161 1,766]

WAT A LOAD OF BOLLOX

[kill um with crisps 7]

Looks to me like the papers are tarring us all with the same brush again and making out the true sportsmen are as bad as the shell suit wearing junky wankers with nothing better to than attack innocent people! Electric coller to signal trapped prey? Iron bars? With journalists like this c@#t we need more then just luck getting the ban lifted!

[the fezz 44]

what a pile of shit , fcukin clueless

[Shadowstalker 2]

Cant belive the utter Crap these people come out with, they dont have a clue.

[dowlo18 1]

the only thing what isnt a lie is that the wildlife numbers have decreased in Stadt Moers Park the rest is bullsh*it

[poacher3161 1,766]

That will be a stupid junior journalist who has wrote that who has not got a fekin clue and more than likely to be a vegan tree hugging anti type wats sad is that a lot of the public will believe it.They will start to scrape the barrel even more now theirs an election on the horizon you watch

 

 

[Guest 2GOOD]

i dont belive it is going on ,,,because they never once said women we also involved ,and they never once said the culperits were wearing TRACK SUITS im not going lamping in that area ,it sounds a bit ROUGH

[steveS.Yorks 161]

The elections coming up,this tosser is just another anti sympathiser drumming up bad publicity on hunting with dogs,ive noticed a few letters appearing in our local paper recently.

 

Funny how these tossers ignore the really serious issues facing our society and waste their time on hunting,when the civil war kicks off [and it will imo] these c**ts will be conciensious objectors,wtf has happened to this country?

[genuine 81]

What a f*****g joke!

[RaiderBoy 19]

I could guess that a lot of that is true but there is some lies hidden in there such as the last six lines but if heard of "pretend hunters" just going out to kill cats same as ive seen all these track suit dog men going onto farmers and just vandalising property for no apparent reason and youre all going to be tarred with the same brush. i could probably say that the likely culprates of this hunting inside the park grounds are members on this site and nobody is doing anything to stop them, if you want to keep hunting even rabbits with lurchers you dog men need to something about it.

 

Richard

[shaun dee 7]

full of shit they can all lick my balls newt like that happens well not round my area dont no about liverpool.

[lee81 190]

this a load of crap and im off that we are all seen as murdering scum well thay can off

anti

:wankerzo4:

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

There was a 17 year old lad in Liverpool convicted this week of cruelty after police found video on his phone of a lurcher killing a cat and a fox cub.

 

The Liverpool Echo is all over this now, wether it's true or not, one thing's for sure, it's going to f**k the sport up for everyone, not just the local scallies.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/02/10/liverpool-teenager-admits-animal-cruelty-100252-25801397/

[Guest 2GOOD]

There was a 17 year old lad in Liverpool convicted this week of cruelty after police found video on his phone of a lurcher killing a cat and a fox cub.

 

The Liverpool Echo is all over this now, wether it's true or not, one thing's for sure, it's going to f**k the sport up for everyone, not just the local scallies.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/02/10/liverpool-teenager-admits-animal-cruelty-100252-25801397/

wont feck it up where i live ,its part and parcel of the way of life here .hunting with dogs that is . i cant walk up my town with out being asked for a certain type of meat .