Ross ‘Spider’ Day
Location: Dorset
Affiliations: Weymouth Animal Rights
Ross 'Spider' Day, part of the Weymouth Animal Rights, is a menacing sab known to have followed a hunt supporter nearly 10 miles with a car full of his crew members. Day has also been reported to have verbally abused an elderly gentleman in December 2025. Masked and anonymous, Day patrols the countryside displaying thug like behaviour.
Tailgate Crashers
On 24 January 2026, a hunt supporter driving alone to a trail-hunting meet found herself being tailed by a carload of sabs after spotting them near the kennels. Despite slowing to let them pass, they stayed on her bumper. Following police advice, she drove past the meet and continued for almost 10 miles before stopping at a petrol station in Dorchester, where she confronted the seven masked individuals. The confrontation also frightened garage staff, highlighting how an ordinary journey to a lawful meet can quickly become an intimidating ordeal.
A Shady Operation
By weekend, a hunt saboteur. By Day, a fan of a sinister fictional corporation. The two worlds, it seems, are not entirely dissimilar. The Umbrella Corporation, from the Resident Evil video game and film franchise, is a fictional multinational pharmaceutical and biotech conglomerate that conceals illegal bioweapons research behind a respectable public face. The parallels with Day’s chosen pastime practically write themselves.
Perhaps, though, Day might be better off channelling his energies into his work as a painter-decorator, where a clean finish matters more than anything achieved behind a balaclava.
Redback Spider
Spider has spun quite the web in the sab world, and you’ll rarely find him far from the venomous strands of it. Chrissy ‘Red’ Connors, among them, paints the town with a distasteful shade of menace dressed up as activism.
In September 2025, whilst out with the South Dorset Hunt, Connors is seen using a hunting horn to call the hounds back. This is a classic tactic used by sabs to distract the hounds of the laid trail. What they overlook, though, is the danger this can pose to the hounds around nearby roads or vehicles. The video shows Connors in possession of two spray bottles (most likely filled with citronella – another technique used to get the hounds off a trail), and of course the cam recorder, ready to frame the hunt at any given opportunity.
Like many others, Connors has no idea about the consequences of her actions. While she calls herself an animal rights activist, she’s deliberately confusing the hounds, using her horn and spraying citronella, a liquid harmful to hounds. The confusion of this entire affair is what makes the sabs look particularly hypocritical.
Caught in a Web of Trouble
Day and his entourage too often misinterpret the dangers of their activism. What they frame as principled protest looks a great deal more like intimidation. Tailing a lone woman for the better part of ten miles, Day relies on the anonymity his mask provides. Strip away the language of ‘animal lover’ and what remains is a concerning pattern of behaviour the countryside could do well without. The hounds he claims to defend are the ones left in danger. Until the penny drops, he will remain less a force for change than an entanglement behind a mask.
