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Have just seen a post on fb, a lady in Keighley was seeing to her horses last night and her 2 dogs escaped from her car and ran off.
She was out looking for them and had friends ringing around, posting on Facebook etc. Around 11pm a man got in touch to say he'd caught them and had them on a lead but a farmer had taken them off him and taken them back to his farm on the other side of the valley. When she contacted the farmer he denied ever having them but on searching the farm the two dogs were found under a piece of wood, he'd killed them with a bolt gun.

Whilst there is no condoning bothering sheep, there was no evidence that they had been and they had already been caught by a member of the public.

Just posting this really as a warning
 
Sorry this doesn't add up.
The first thing a farmer should do, after shooting a stock worrier, is report it to the police, not hide the bodies and how does someone go "searching a farm"?
 
Beginning to think alot of things on facebook are just made up by people with too much time on their hands !
 
Yep never believe face ache. They make stuff up all the time especially about animals. They have competitions to see who get more shares.
 
Ok, its just this one seemed different as there were lots of comments from people who had helped her search. I think the point was that they hadn't been shot chasing sheep but they were under control at the time he took them.

Guess I should wait and see if its real I'm sure we'll find out eventually.
 
milo'n'molly said:
there was no evidence that they had been and they had already been caught by a member of the public.

Just posting this really as a warning
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If they'd been caught by a member of the public, how did they get dead on the farm??

And who 'searched' the farm?
 
The member of the public saw the farmer and enquired if they were the farmers dogs. He said they weren't but he'd take them untill the owner turned up, this as reported to the dog warden nd the police who searched the farm.
As I said I don't know for sure this is what happened but certainly seems to be causing a stir locally, the owner is trying to get the story out there
 
milo'n'molly said:
The member of the public saw the farmer and enquired if they were the farmers dogs. He said they weren't but he'd take them untill the owner turned up, this as reported to the dog warden nd the police who searched the farm.
As I said I don't know for sure this is what happened but certainly seems to be causing a stir locally, the owner is trying to get the story out there
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Ah, that makes more sense.
 
How awful, and a bolt gun too if indeed it was.
If i found a farmer had done that to my dog i wouldn't want to be the farmer. (if shot from a distance while chasing livestock i would deal with it)
 
Maybe the farmer had seen them in with his sheep, was delighted they had been caught and took the law into his own hands. In which case he was still wrong but he may have been at the end of his tether. A GSD and a husky out together would have been pretty bad news I would have thought. He was wrong to take them off the man who had caught them but maybe he was fed up with the law not doing anything?
 
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