Best wishes for the holiday season to everyone who’ve signed and/or shared petitions.  Petitions DO work. Otter hunting was banned in Ireland in 1990 in response to intensive lobbying and petitioning, and in 2010 stag hunting was abolished, again following relentless petitioning and pressure on politicians.

Hare coursing and fox hunting in Ireland remain to be tackled, because their supporters are powerful people with fat chequebooks…but these obscenities will fall some day to committed campaigning and the inherent decency of people who will not rest while hares and foxes are forced to “perform” for cruel humans.

Thanks to all who’ve signed and circulated these petitions in 2018, and to anyone who’s helped to spread the word about my wildlife protection/anti blood sports novel “Time to Stop Running”, the story of a hare who takes on the nastier elements of humanity in a heroic struggle…a kind of “Watership Down” for hares.

I’m especially grateful to those who’ve asked libraries to stock the book, as this will bring the message that cruelty to wildlife is unacceptable to readers worldwide.

The opening thirteen chapters of “Time to Stop Running” can be read freely online at the following links (the UK and USA Amazon pages relevant to the book)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Stop-Running-John-Fitzgerald-ebook/dp/B07KK1F53Z/

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Stop-Running-John-Fitzgerald-ebook/dp/B07KK1F53Z/