Extract below taken from The Whitby Gazette
Published on Friday 16 December 2011 10:16
A COUPLE have been devastated after hounds from the Goathland Hunt savaged and killed their cat.
Elderly tabby Moppet, aged 18, was outside her home in Stoupe Brow, near Ravenscar, when 27 hunting dogs bounded onto land belonging to her owners Les and Margaret Atkinson.
The dogs brutally attacked the cat before a huntsman picked up a lifeless and bloodied Moppet and rode away.
Hours later members ...
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