DOG owners are being warned to keep their dogs on the lead on private farm land in Cambridgeshire, after a sheep was killed earlier this month. Cambridgeshire police issued the warning after the incident at Northbrook End, Steeple Morden on Tuesday, June
DOG owners are being warned to keep their dogs on the lead on private farm land in Cambridgeshire, after a sheep was killed earlier this month.
Cambridgeshire police issued the warning after the incident at Northbrook End, Steeple Morden on Tuesday, June 3..
PC Paul Carter, from the Rural Community Action Team, said: "It's worth remembering that if a landowner sees a dog off the lead on their land near to livestock they have the legal right to destroy the animal.
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