In this Off the Leash Podcast 2021 Year End Special, Dominic Dyer and Charlie Moores focus on the madness of foxhunting's Boxing Day 'meets' with reference to the disgraceful attacks by hunt followers on protestors in Lacock, a National Trust owned village in Wiltshire; the Faroes and the Grind; the use of Black Bear fur in military hats; and announce plans for an Operation Ark and Operation Magic Carpet New Year Special podcast.  Sandwiched inside all of that is animal sentience, moorlands, and much more. 

We also discuss a planned series of shortcasts on snares and snaring to support the recently re-launched Animal Aid petition to ban the use of free-running snares. 

We can't really make an episode of The Off the Leash Podcast without our Heroes and Villains, and in this one we slam the fossil fuel industry, the pesticide industry, the shooting industry,  foxhunting, and the so-called Countryside Alliance, and heap praise on everyone who helped get people (and animals) out of Afghanistan and the hunt sabs and monitors who put their bodies (and minds) on the line to protect wildlife and stop wildlife crime from taking place (heroes one and all). 

Finally, we thank everyone who has supported us in our first year online, and look forward to 2022.

• Wiltshire Live Boxing Day hunt descends into violence amid protest in idyllic Wiltshire village
• Wiltshire Hunt Sabs Twitter feed and PayPal funding page
• PETA  Stop Bear Slaughter: PETA Unveils Faux-Fur Queen’s Guard Cap
• Animal Aid page on snares
• Government petition  Make the use of free-running snares illegal for trapping wildlife 
• Government petition  Suspend trade agreement with Faroe Islands until all whale & dolphin hunts end
• Off the Leash podcast Interview #12 Crustacean Compassion | Decapod Sentience
• Unearthed  Europe and the UK’s vast shipments of banned, bee-killing ‘neonics’