Beernem A group of hikers in a remote forest in Beernem, a man caught in illegal fox hunt. The hunter, used live roosters as bait, and left them in deplorable conditions to survive. “They were covered with blood and had no food to eat and drink. I could no longer respect and have them freed,” says Wendy Lammens, who in Veurne neglected animals to catch.
animal rights organisation Animal Rights makes the story to the world. “There is barely any control on the hunt. This innocent and injured animals were at the mercy of the whims of a hunter, all the rules of his boot lapt”, says Els Van Campenhout. The organization was at the end of december informed of the illegal fox hunt when a group of hikers the vossenval with wounded animals happen to be found in a remote forest in Beernem. The people in charge of Animal Rights took to the situation on the ground view, and alerted the Agency for Nature and Forest, and Wendy Lammens, who with her own asylum been caring for neglected animals. The circumstances in which the four cocks and one hen, were found, were harrowing.