Owner Dawn French said their six-acre field in East Hatley, near Gamlingay, looked like “a massacre” after the animals were found scattered around after they were shot with a “.22 or higher rifle.” A ewe was also “massacred by dogs” and a fifth alpaca received a gunshot wound to its face, but survived, in the “horrific” incident.
“It looked like a murder scene when we arrived, the alpacas had all been shot in the head like an execution, it was absolute carnage,” said Dawn. “It’s something I would never want to see ever again and wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.”
Dawn and her husband Brian, who have a smallholding with sheep, chickens and geese, were alerted to the incident in their overflow field yesterday morning. The field contained six alpacas and two sheep and they arrived to find four alpacas shot in the head, one wounded and another unharmed. One of the sheep was lying badly injured in a ditch and later had to be put to sleep and the other sheep was hiding in a hedge.
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