FOUR sheep - two of which have had to be put down - have been attacked in Flintshire.

DISTRESSING CONTENT WARNING: Two Brahma chickens - named Rex and Jock - were stolen from their pen in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a gang of five men who laughed and joked as they abused the animals.

The boy, from Verwood, was arrested, interviewed and released under investigation by Dorset Police Rural Crime.

A distraught Saddleworth hillside farmer is “at the end of his tether” with losing valuable calves caused by dog owners allowing pets to defecate on his land.

A woman whose sheep were mauled by three dogs in a ‘nightmare’ attack now fears that a child could be next.

A farmer has spoken of his horror after discovering a calf hanged from a fence and a cow so badly injured it had to be put down.

It is believed a vehicle deliberately trespassed into a field in the area of Tollard Royal and killed 14 sheep and lambs.

The ritual slaughter of a lamb found in a Cleethorpes park is 'a sign Black Magic' says a councillor.

Police have attended Chatsworth House in Derbyshire after receiving reports of anti-social behaviour and dogs threatening the safety of livestock.

THE owner of husky dogs that savaged sheep on nearby farms after a gate was left open by a delivery person has been told to pay more than £10,000 in compensation.

A woman attacked by 'frenzied cows' says she would have been killed if it wasn't for her husband. Margaret Donlon was having a quiet country walk on a public footpath when the cows set upon her.

On the morning of 12 June, a valuable Texel ram was viciously attacked by what is believed to be a large dog.

Greater Anglia said the 10:18 BST Liverpool Street to Clacton service was derailed after it hit the animals on the line near Thorpe-le-Soken at about 12:00 on Saturday.

Police are appealing for help to find the driver of a van which drove off after knocking over and killing a lamb.

A livestock keeper has been found guilty of breaching bovine TB and animal traceability rules.