Beauport sheep injured in suspected dog attack

States vet Linda Lowseck and shepherds Ewen Hare and Aaron Le Couteur are urging Islanders to be more vigilant after the grazing animals were set upon in a field at Beauport earlier this week.

Among the wounded sheep, which belong to Mr Le Couteur but are used under a joint venture with the National Trust for Jersey, was a one-year-old animal named Bercail Gallant, who sustained a serious wound to her rear left leg which needed stitches.

It is not known what type of dog was involved, but Mr Hare said that a large animal was suspected, given the nature of the wounds.

The attack follows another in which a greyhound was left with deep bite marks in its legs from what was thought to be a Staffordshire bull terrier last week.

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