Fox ripped to pieces by up to 40 hunting dogs, saboteurs claim

These disturbing images show a fox that was brutally mauled to death by hunters, according to saboteurs.



Yesterday afternoon 20 members of the Guildford Hunt Saboteurs group descended on woodland near Ewhurst in Surrey having been tipped off about a potential fox hunt.



After hounds were pulled away from one fox by the saboteurs, the protesters and riders from Surrey Union Hunt came face to face in the village of Peaslake.



There a pack of 30 to 40 dogs charged through people's gardens, chased a herd of deer and mauled a fox to death, the saboteurs claim.



Colin Skilton, spokesperson for the Guildford Hunt Saboteurs, said: "In Peaslake the dogs went absolutely mad. They were everywhere.



"They went through people's back gardens in full cry.



"There were 30 or 40 dogs all over the place as the huntsmen stood in the middle of the village.



"The fox was hiding in the bush when the dogs got to it. They decimated it in seconds."