“We are an independent specialist equine clinic in North Devon, providing first opinion equine care to horses in North Devon (40 mile radius from our base).” As sadly far too often there is a clear link between equine vets and hunting. Exmoor Equine Clinic employs veterinary nurse – Laura Dobson, nicknamed Dobby. She is from a family with close hunting connections with the notorious deer hunting Quantock Stag Hounds. ‘Dobby’ is the daughter of Hunt Master of the Haddon Area, Sally Thorne, and hunts with the QSH herself. Killing deer with hounds is so normalised in this part of the country that the clinic openly mentions the nurse’s hunting activities in their marketing…
Exmoor Equine Clinic (Devon)
Links to more information
- North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs: The Quantock Staghounds and the Devon & Somerset Staghounds joined forces today to hunt this poor stag (Facebook, October 2025)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: Quantock Staghounds followers wrecking SSSI with 4x4s (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: the depraved ‘supporters’ of the Quantock Stag Hounds (October 2023)
- Protect the Wild: Hunt saboteurs hospitalised by violent Quantock Stag Hounds riders (Nov 2023)
- Protect the Wild: Stag killers no longer welcome in this Somerset pub (Oct 2023)
- Protect the Wild: The Secret Monitor: Dishing the dirt on stag hunting (September 2023)
- Protect the Wild: The brutal reality of stag hunting (April 2022)
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