Mother of three Karen Robinson, kennelsman for the Airedale Beagles, based in Silsden, was among thousands of pro-hunters amassed in Parliament Square on Wednesday.

Mrs Robinson, who has been running the 60-dog pack for three years, drove down to the demonstration with six other protesters.

She said: "I left before the trouble started. I could see it brewing. I got a sense it could get worse. It was very tense. It was not like other demonstrations I have been on before."

Mrs Robinson, 36, who runs the kennels with her husband Bryan, 31, the kennelmaster, said there was a line of three barriers unlike in the past when there had been only one.

She was standing near the statue of Winston Churchill and could see a lot of shoving and pushing against the barriers. "Last time, if the barrier fell over, people could get away, but this time they were hemmed in like cattle. People were getting squashed," she said.

The Bill to ban hunting and hare coursing was given its second reading by 356 votes to 166, a majority of 190. It now goes to the House of Lords but is due to come into effect in July 2006.

Mrs Robinson, who fears the dogs will have to be destroyed, said she heard of the invasion of Parliament from her husband by telephone. He is hoping for a legal challenge to the decision.

Five demonstrators evaded security to reach the floor of the chamber -- the worst breach of the Commons in living memory.

She added: "I don't think that did our protest any good. That incident is now all over the news. Thousands of people were there protesting peacefully -- but there is always a minority there for a fight."

But she was now "very worried" about the future prospects of losing her job and how it would impact on her three sons, Henry, 11, William, eight and three year-old Jack.

And it was highly likely the dogs would have to be destroyed because very few would make family pets.