As you may have heard by now, I have committed to jumping out of a plane from 10,000ft dressed as a fox (yes, that is me in the picture!). I am absolutely terrified, but this fear is nothing compared to what fox cubs have to endure during ‘cubbing season’.
Every year up to 10,000 fox cubs are ripped to pieces by hunts and the public have no idea it goes on. The hunting fraternity want to keep their sick pastime a secret, but we have a secret project underway which will expose this madness for good.
This heinous activity is known as ‘cubbing’ and is one of fox hunting’s dirtiest secrets.
Cubbing takes place over a two-month period before the main fox hunting season, it’s something that has been going on for years, and it needs to be exposed. The vast majority of the public have no idea about it, yet it’s arguably more disgusting, more barbaric, and more unethical on every level than fox hunting itself.
This is a static form of hunting and goes on at dusk, where you have hunters on horseback, surrounding wooded areas, sending hounds in, waiting for the fox cubs to be torn apart. This is all done to train the hounds to kill ready for the main hunting season.
You can find out more about ‘cubbing’ and our plans to expose it by listening to Off The Leash podcast where I’m being interviewed by the amazing Charlie Moores.
The planned skydive is Wednesday 8th June (just over a week - eek!!) and we are currently at 96% of our target. Will you please help us with our final push? Every pound raised from this fundraiser will go straight into a first of its kind project that will expose the barbaric pastime of cubbing to a whole new audience. Together we can make a real difference for wildlife and put pressure on decision makers to make a change for good.
I am dedicated to ending fox hunting and all forms of wildlife abuse. With your support we can expose one of hunting’s dirtiest secrets to millions of people across the country.
Cubbing is a disgusting form of animal abuse – please help us expose it!