Just read this story I wonder what the compensation will be ? A free kitten ?:-(

thats awful :(

This is disgusting they had no control over the pack at all, poor Molly & poor girl, bet she has nightmares.

> I wonder what the compensation will be ?

You can't really be compensated for that can you, nothing will help with the mental image the owner is now left with, seeing her beloved cat torn apart in front of her :( :(

Thats awful. I support hunting, although I don't do it, but thats so wrong and I really hate the way some hunts (and shoots!) think they can just infringe on other folk in their pursuit of a sport

When the Middleton pack rampaged through our village they killed an old lady's cat(19 +)on her doorstep right next to the old lady(she was in her 90s) who was sitting in her garden in the sun. The Mistress of the Hunt, pushed an envelope through her letter box with a fiver in it & a note-for your dead cat !

A few years back my friend found her cat being ripped apart by two GR's on her doorstep. My friend contacted the Police who weren't at all interested. The dogs owner even refused to pay for the cats cremation and didn't even offer an apology.

Awful. :( I'll probably be shot for saying it, but to me it seems like most hunt supporters (other than those that hunt themselves) don't live in the middle of it so just don't get it. It is NOT nice to find a pack of 30 hounds in front of your house and have to worry about the safety of the toydogs (smaller than cats), not being able to go for walks or even dare to let them out for a quick pee when the hunt is about! Everyone I've heard say they support hunting seem to live in a terrace in the middle of town somewhere..........

Everyone I've heard say they support hunting seem to live in a terrace in the middle of town somewhere..........

:-D  Your probably right there MarianneB, I've only witnessed one hunt, my mother and eldest brother were very much involved once upon a time and love the spirit of it all, me, I found it absolutely horrendous, I was all for the fox and found the whole mentality of it quite disgusting and I certainly would fear for any cat or small dog, I've always found it a barbaric sport with or without the fox and I've heard all the arguments from my own family, 'but this lady is not for turning' :-) and your right most country folk don't enjoy this kind of pack dog hunting unless you are part of the 'club!'

There is a whole difference between working a gundog and using a pack to track and kill and I've never believed it is a quick kill, too many incidents like this where it has been witnessed what they actually do to a pet.

The poor cat and what a horrendous image to have to live with. :-(

That's so sad , that poor lady. To have a cat 15 years and then see it die that way. Cant even think about it. Its terrible   Why cant the hunt warn people when they are coming so they can keep all pets indoors. :(

>Everyone I've heard say they support hunting seem to live in a terrace in the middle of town somewhere..........

There are others of us about, who live in the countryside. Quite a few times I've been walking my dogs and find myself with 20 or 30 extras! My only fear is that mine will decide that these others are having a much more exciting walk and go with them!

That doesn't stop me feeling very sorry for the cat and its owners, though.

Wasn't there an incident with pack hounds killing something in a primary school playground in front of the kids, a few years ago?   

this is just sickening .

I was just glad that there were no children around the day my dog caught a rabbit!  She would probabally do the same to a cat if she caught one too.  I hope that a cat can teach her a lesson before that happens.  I have had the hounds go past my back fence when we had a cat many years ago but luckily the fence kept them out of the garden.  It was a bit alarming at the time. 

>It is NOT nice to find a pack of 30 hounds in front of your house and have to worry about the safety of the toydogs (smaller than cats), not being able to go for walks or even dare to let them out for a quick pee when the hunt is about!

Not just toydogs -
I grew up in the countryside and dog walking was definatley something everybody I knew avoided if the hunt were about. I always found it very frightening to be accross the fields with the dogs and then see or hear the hunt, our dogs would turn-tail and run home if they weren't on-lead (mongrels, approx 25kg).