Sheep Stealing Is Back

[Canary42]

Prior to 1832 that was a capital offence, punishable by hanging.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/sheep-killed-hunt-hounds-northamptonshire-183637195.html

[Patsy33]

What a horrible thing to do. They seem to be a blood thirsty lot!

[Buenchico]

Reports of sheep rustling are quite commonplace in our local rag.

e.g. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21402811.police-warn-devastating-impact-sheep-rustling-suffolk/

[gness]

I know the Pytchley Hunt well enough, Patsy to know they are indeed a blood thirsty lot.

[wolf63]

It sounds like there is more going on with the story. You would have to be heartless to kill any pet and to the feed it to his dogs is cruel. Sounds like he was trying to cause hurt to the Sheep's humans.

[Patsy33]

Oh in Northamptonshire..
They have a weird, cruel, mindset, guess.

[Patsy33]

^^^^
Gness! :-))

[jourdain2]

It's a few years since I left the area, but family and friends assure me that it still goes on. Sheep stealing from the moors around Bradford and Halifax, that is. Was certainly upsetting the farmers around when I lived there 20 yrs ago. I'd better not say who were the strongest suspects.

[pastafreak]

What a sick thing to do.
If I'm not mistaken, if dogs kill a farmers sheep, the farmer has the right to shoot the dogs. What happens to stupid humans like this one?

[fitdarren]

They are a vile lot these hunters and they shouldn't even be hunting, it's supposed to be ILLEGAL!