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Please retweet, appeal for information. Four alpacas have been fatally shot in the head with a rifle, police said #UK ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
The animals were attacked between 18:00 GMT on Saturday 22 March and 08:30 on Sunday in East Hatley, near #Gamlingay, #Cambridgeshire Police said.
A ewe was attacked by a dog and had to be put down, while another alpaca received a non-fatal gunshot wound to the face, owner Dawn French, 58, said.
Sgt Tom Nuttall, from the rural crime action team, said: "This was a highly distressing crime that has caused death and serious injury to defenceless animals."
Ms French has kept the herd of six alpacas and one ewe in a field rented from a farm a couple of miles away from her smallholding at #Tadlow for the past six years.
"We got a phone call yesterday morning saying, 'I think you need to come down here but be prepared it's not pretty'," she said.
"We rushed down there and found four alpacas with shots to their heads, very very upsetting, very traumatic - just hideous."
The ewe was so badly mauled by a dog it had to be put down, she said.
The injured alpaca Phoebe was treated by a vet.
Ms French said: "The bullet or shot has caught her on the side of her face and given her quite a nasty wound and paralysis - we're hoping it's just swelling and temporary and the nerve isn't severed in the incident."
Witnesses or anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage from the area at the time should contact police.
Ms French said: "They're lovely creatures, they've all got their own characters and it's just senseless - I can't understand how anyone could think of doing this to animals so sweet, so harmless, so inquisitive."
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