POLICE are investigating after an Exmoor lady’s pet sheep named Lamb Chop and one other animal had been savaged to dying in an equivalent canine attack to 1 which occurred almost precisely a yr in the past.
Smallholder Wendy Sherring was left distraught by the killings, which concerned a young Saint Bermastiff, a cross between a bull mastiff and Saint Bernard.
Dog attack which killed Exmoor lady’s pet sheep investigated by police Chop was certainly one of two pet sheep which Mrs Sherring saved in a subject of eight at her home, Hiccombe Cottage, Brompton Regis.
They had been the remnants of a flock which had been attacked early in May of final yr when two died and two extra had been severely injured.
Mrs Sherring mentioned: “She used to live in the house when she was born and went for walks in the woods with me and always came when I called her.
One of the injured sheep after a dog attack in Brompton Regis last week. A second image was too graphic to publish. PHOTO: Peter Sherring. ( )
“It is heartbreaking. I feel so angry about it.
“People do not realise how stressful it is when you find them torn to pieces in the field, how we work hard to keep these sheep alive and healthy.”
Mrs Sherring mentioned the canine concerned final yr was owned by a neighborhood resident and was later put down by a veterinary surgeon.
Last week’s attack was blamed on the Saint Bermastiff puppy of the canine concerned in 2023 and belonged to the identical native household.
Mrs Sherring mentioned her husband Peter had challenged a girl leaving the sphere with the canine and her response had been ‘our fences should have been high enough so her dog could not get in’.
She mentioned: “If one of us had gone in there to try to intervene it probably would have savaged us as well.”
A police spokesperson mentioned: “Inquiries are ongoing and our rural crime team has been made aware.
“It is an offence to worry sheep and we would remind dog owners to keep their dogs on leads in and around fields of livestock and to also not climb over gates which have been locked.
“If you have any information about this incident which could help our investigation, please call 101 and quote reference 5224105330.”
