This is nothing new, sadly. A while back we had, in Bristol, a man who set his dog onto a fox and watched it fatally injure the fox. For 'fun'. In the 1990s we had cases in Birmingham parks where gangs were baiting foxes and using dogs to kill them.
If you get into wildlife work you have to understand that you are in a war. An ongoing war where animal cruelty is 'sport' for some very sick people.
After decades this neither shocks or surprises me.
'Illegal hunting with dogs' fears after foxes found dead across Greater Manchester
The RSPCA has launched an investigation and is appealing for information after the bodies of six foxes were found in seperate locations in Greater Manchester.
The national animal welfare charity says it believes the foxes were killed by illegal hunting with dogs.
Their bodies were found in seperate areas.
Two of the foxes were found at Baileys Wood in Blackley, near Boggart Hole Clough in north Manchester, on February 10, with a further four discovered at a site in Radcliffe, near Bury, on February 14.
The RSPCA was contacted after the second find. The charity says it is investigating and called the organised hunting of wild animals using dogs 'a growing problem' nationally.
A spokesperson said: "The discovery of six foxes dumped in two separate locations in Greater Manchester has triggered an appeal for information from the RSPCA.
"The charity fears the animals may have been killed under suspicious circumstances."
RSPCA Inspector Deborah Beats said: "We fear that these poor foxes were deliberately killed - possibly using dogs
"Sadly, the persecution of wildlife and the organised hunting of wild animals using dogs is a growing problem - and certainly this is something we cannot rule out here. Hunting with dogs is illegal and so we are appealing for anyone with firsthand information about these foxes to get in touch with our appeal line on 0300 123 8018, quoting reference numbers 1450712 and 1450752.”
The RSPCA said both it and other agencies were 'dealing with worrying amounts of wildlife crime'.
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