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Taken down over its content but theyll gladly post animals being tortured maybe take the evidence to a main stream newspaper to be published that would get the word out and hopefully damage the scums idea they portray of the countryside !! Happy hunting i think its time to show the wider public the evil these scumbags are pure FILTH

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Quite right Joeann! I am suspicious about WHO was influential and had them taken down!

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Bravo for exploiting the ‘Bambi effect’ so meaningfully through animation. Anything - as you say Rob - to stop people who might be positively influenced by your accounts from just ‘scrolling on’.

Might I suggest a further development of this strategy: the wonderful animations you have created have focussed - naturally - on the animals and the cruel challenges they face. So they still contain ‘challenging material’, inevitably which will still cause some in the general public to scroll on. As a recent returnee to Facebook I have been delightfully moved by many of the ‘amazing animal’ clips I’ve encountered where the animals interact marvellously with their owner. So perhaps if the focus of further animations were to also include some on the more positive subject of humans saving/interacting with animals rather than the (wild) animal saving itself. And then developing a more positive relationship with the animal in a kind of ‘demascene conversation’ experience kind of way. How about one in which the shooting estate Gamekeeper is ‘converted’? (That would require a lot of imagination I realise!)

So rather than - or as well as - confronting the general public with tales of hatefulness you (also) ‘seduce’ them - or at least those who can reached - with animated tales of personal redemption through animal contact as the fox, fox-hound, badger etc tells its ‘human empathy’ story through the animation.

Just a thought.

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Thanks so much for the ideas David, I will definitely have a think about this for future animations. I am always trying to think of new narratives and dynamics through which we can tell stories and perhaps this redemption/positive angle may well be something we can work with! :)

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We have an Election coming up very shortly. Write to your MP, as they will be scrambling for every vote. A complete ban on hunting is the only way forward. I have supported you since day 1 and will continue to do so. Keep going.

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Same with my tory MP when I send anything to him about any animal welfare issue. Just a standard reply saying how much they have done to improve animal welfare!

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I wrote to mine, Jackie Doyle, she replied that it wasn't important enough to be an election issue and that the law as it stands is adequate. She is a Tory and totally disinterested in environmental issues.

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And let’s hope they are smashed come election time. Still surprises me that Labour ( I vote Green) don’t raise the illegal activity of so many Tories. Reece Mogg (🤮) a prime example.

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Utterly appalled. Have signed up for a small regular donation. Thanks for the work.

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Art is a brilliant way to bring the massage to the public and these animations are the best.

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The animations are fantastic and an accessible way to involve more people. Great work!

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Great animal rights work. Thank you for writing about it.

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I have taken in rescue rabbits for many years and there is not much worse than hearing a rabbit scream when it has been caught by a fox. However I would never kill a fox. I cannot control nature and deplore anyone killing any animal. Vegan and proud!

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I agree animation will reach more people. People are fatigued.

Some humans will always be inndifferent, it's someone else's problem. Apathetic. Kids, house, work. Some people are drowning. Maslow's Hierarchy.

Some politicians just want power and wars

Some are antisocial and mind-bogglingly destructive and violent. Disenfranchised. MAYBE, these are the people to educate the reach out to, get on board?

I am fatigued. Southern Africa is suffering the worst drought. Climate change will cause mass movement of displaced people. Antarctica is melting.etc. Unparalleled extinction of animal and plant species.

And while this is all happening, I agree we can only do what we can do and continue the fight where we are - against the senseless, arrogant, cruel hunting and culling by arrogant emotionally stunted humans

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I am sure if Labour got in there would be no question of hunting being re-introduced and may even be a ban on trail hunting. Problem there is Starmer as PM, a hideous thought to me and worse his deputy. Such a difficult choice as let's face it, they are all rubbish except maybe Reform but no idea what their stance is on animal welfare. I remember a few years back when Farage was competing and he admitted he would allow each county to make their own decision about fox hunting if he got in, so that was a definite no no. In fact, it worried me so much that if it had come to it I would have voted Remain just to save the foxes.

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It's certainly a good idea. It could well widen peoples' awareness!

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The RSPCA have a advert that sends a very powerfull message to the song R.E.S.P.E.C.T. The animtions would reach a very wide public if they could be used in this way. Its unbelievable that amount of people that still do not know Fox and Stag hunting is illegal.

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I would like to cancel my subscription to this organisation. I have tried to find a way to do it . Can anyone help please ?

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