OneKind blog
Let’s see some real commitments to animals this election
20 April 2017
The Scottish public care deeply about animal issues. Last year in the run op to the Holyrood elections OneKind and our partners in the More for...
New investigation exposes horrifying cruelty suffered by Scotland’s farm animals
19 April 2017
Breaches in farm animal welfare in Scotland have long been a serious issue in abattoirs across the country. Following an investigation by The Ferret...
Scotland Bill to ban wild animal circuses comes closer
07 April 2017
Scotland could be a wild-animal-circus-free zone by next summer. OneKind understands that the Scottish Government Bill to ban the use of wild...
OneKind talks fox hunting and snares at the SNP conference
21 March 2017
Sarah Moyes, Onekind’s new campaigner, blogs on her experience representing OneKind at the SNP conference last week. Last week, I headed...
Snaring mountain hares ends because of ‘unnecessary suffering’
17 March 2017
For years, OneKind has argued that snaring mountain hares should be banned. Both because of the suffering it causes and the impact it could be having...
Scotland has a hare coursing problem. Here’s how to stop it.
15 February 2017
Hare coursing is an illegal bloodsport that involves chasing and killing hares with dogs. These dogs are usually ‘sight’ hounds, i.e. dogs...
It’s time for a Snare-Free Scotland
06 February 2017
Last week, we were alerted to another poor fox that had been caught in a snare. The snare had snapped at the stake but got stuck around its middle....
Watch out for mountain hare culls
18 January 2017
For those that want their estates free of mountain hares this year, there are only six weeks left. On the 1st of March the closed season starts,...
Scotland’s first industrial puppy farm rejected
12 January 2017
Last week, protestors gathered outside East Ayrshire Council HQ as the local authority met to discuss proposals for what would have been...
Three reasons why fox hunting will be banned in Scotland for good
25 December 2016
Boxing Day is one of the big events in the hunt calendar. Today fox hunts across Scotland will once again set out to kill foxes in spite of the...
