why we made the animations

Following our undercover investigation alongside the Hunt Investigation Team, which exposed the Duke of Beaufort Hunt shooting their own hounds, and the damning findings of our 2025 report Unseen Victims: The Forgotten Foxhounds of Hunting, we knew we needed to find a way to bring this reality to a wider audience.

Initially, we encountered significant hurdles battling against social media algorithms. The graphic nature of the footage led Facebook and Twitter to severely restrict the reach of the original content showcasing the hound shootings, and any images of poor welfare taken by Sabs and monitors during hunt meets.

This is where our animations , titled 'The Forgotten Foxhounds' and 'Protect the Hounds' step in. Now, we have a significant opportunity to present these scenes to a much larger audience and shed light on how hunts mistreat their hounds when they believe they're unobserved.

Our poignant 90-second animations shed light on the tragic fate of a foxhound named 'Scamp,' and reveals the distressing reality of risk hounds experience when used by hunts across the UK.  

Our aim with Rehome the Hounds is to expose the widespread abuse and killing of hounds carried out by hunts across the UK. These are not isolated incidents, they show a pervasive, systemic crisis that has been ignored for far too long.Hunts continue to breed hounds at alarming rates, knowing full well what fate awaits those deemed surplus or too old to run, even though they could be rehomed.
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Hunts have a choice: to care for the lives they create, or to discard them. There is no middle ground. nThe time for accountability and reponsibiltiy is now.