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Rabbit killers strike again
MORE cases of the savage pet killers roaming parts of Halifax have prompted a new police appeal to catch the culprits.
Four more rabbits in Pellon have been brutally killed in separate gardens only 50 yards apart.
It is the latest in a string of attacks on the pets that has hit communities across Pellon, Norton Tower, Highroad Well and Wheatley.
There have been more than 15 carbon-copy cases of the animals, said to be a pair of ferocious wild dogs, striking in the past few weeks.
Now worried residents are calling for police to act before any more pets are killed.
Susan Randall, who has seen two family rabbits in Norton Tower torn to shreds along with a friend's just yards away in Roils Head Road, said: "These horrifying deaths just keep continuing, how many more will it take to get them stopped?
"Everyone just wishes this would come to an end. It is affecting so many families."
The Courier has been inundated by reports of the dogs wandering through gardens and mauling family pets at will.
Many of the hutches targeted have been torn apart with the animals inside mauled to death.
Sergeant Brian Parker, of North Halifax police, who is leading the investigations said he has not seen anything like it in over 30 years of police work in Calderdale.
Sergeant Parker said: "We are desperate for information on where these dogs are living to make sure they are caught."
Anyone who sees the dogs are asked to call police on 01422 337300 or CrimeStoppers on 0800 555111.
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