A British mother-of-seven is appealing for help identifying the unknown thugs who lynched her children’s pet lamb.
“It was so horrible to see her hanging, I’m so angry,” Dodd told the news outlet, recounting her distress at finding the lamb dead on April 29 at her hobby farm in Packmoor in the north of England.
Dodd said this was not the first time hooligans had targeted her small hobby farm. Days after the lamb was found dead, she said someone opened the gates to her farm and let the sheep escape.
“When I started the smallholding we had 18 sheep and they gave birth to 11 lambs,” she told StokeOnTrent Live. “Now we’ve got six lambs and 15 sheep left.”
In another incident, she said someone blinded a lamb named Socks in one eye.
“There have been other instances where they have dug holes in the ground and covered them up for the animals to fall down,” she added.
It was reported that she has moved her sheep to a secret location until the perpetrators are caught.
Hobby Farm to Help Autistic Children Cope
The 35-year-old mother told the news outlet that she started the small hobby farm as a way to help her two autistic sons cope with developmental issues.“We started with a couple of rescue animals because my sons didn’t really go out that much as they struggle with social interaction,” she told the publication.
“They all have their own personal sheep or lamb that was theirs to look after. One was used as a therapy sheep. Now we have to keep the children away because we don’t know what we’re going to find.”
She said she suspects someone who wants to drive her off the land is behind the cruel incidents.
“It was a space for the kids to be able to run around and relax but people who want us to move off the land started to damage the smallholding.”
“I’ve had to move the sheep away because it’s unsafe.”
She said she has reported the lamb lynching both to the RSPCA and the police.
Reactions
After news of the incident was posted on the StokeOnTrent Live Facebook page, people reacted with sympathy.Animal Rights Group Investigates Man Who Drop-Kicked Cat in Disturbing Video
*Warning: contains graphic content.*The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the case of a man seen on video violently kicking a cat.
The RSPCA (England & Wales) announced on its Twitter feed over the weekend that the disturbing incident—which shows the unidentified man coaxing the cat before giving it a savage kick—would be “looked into.”
Disturbing Video
The stomach-churning video was posted by the Twitter account Protect All Wildlife (@Protect_Wildlife) with the caption, “Let’s find this oxygen thief!!!!”
The footage shows the man appearing to be kind to the cat, stroking it behind the ears. He then turns to the camera and smiles before winding up for a brutal kick that sends the cat flying as a “thud” sound is heard.
Someone off-camera is heard laughing hysterically as the cat spins through the air before it lands several feet away before bolting.
It is unclear whether the cat sustained any serious injuries.
The video has been viewed over 2.4 million times and shared over 15,000 times in a few days.
“Sometimes it’s important to see that there is evil in the world,” another Twitter user wrote, adding: “even though it makes us uncomfortable. If we lie to ourselves and say every human and every inch of the world is wonderful, we shelter ourselves, and we are unprepared for the actual world.”
After viewing the disturbing clip, celebrities have taken to Twitter to express their outrage.
