Sheep Worrying Shooters Blasted

Animal welfare campaigners have angrily blasted the Hoghton Tower shoot for shooting in a field of sheep to their obvious distress.

Shoot monitors from the North West Animal Welfare claim the Hoghton Tower shoot paid no concern to the welfare of a flock of 100 sheep in their eagerness to shoot as many pheasants as possible before the end of the shooting season.

A spokesman for the North West Animal Welfare said, “It’s shocking that at a time when the National Union of Farmers is calling on the public to keep dogs on leads near livestock that the Hoghton Tower shoot ignored the obvious distress of the sheep. The sheep had to run to avoid men beating out pheasants, guns going off every few seconds and dogs running around picking up dead or injured pheasants. The shoot’s only interest was killing as many birds a possible before the end of the season next week.”

The shoot took place next to a pheasant pen on the Woodfold Estate which is owned by Baron Alvingham, Robert Guy Eardley Yerburgh, a descendent of Daniel Thwaites.

Anti-shoot campaigners have promised to keep up the pressure on the Hoghton Tower shoot for however long it takes.