Couple's horror as dogs savage pig
A Shropshire couple were woken from their beds to find one of their pet pigs being savaged by two Rottweiler dogs.A Shropshire couple were woken from their beds to find one of their pet pigs being savaged by two Rottweiler dogs. Mark and Emma Tipton say the two dogs, who they claim belong to a neighbour, smashed through a fence panel along with a Jack Russell dog at around 5am on Tuesday morning. A rare Kune Kune pig called Rodney, one of two animals owned by the couple, was attacked and later died from its injuries. Telford police spokesman Chris Ammonds said officers attended the address after the incident and police were due to have another meeting next week to sort out a solution. He said the owner of the dogs had also been given advice about keeping her animals under control. Read more in the Shropshire Star
A Shropshire couple were woken from their beds to find one of their pet pigs being savaged by two Rottweiler dogs.
Mark and Emma Tipton say the two dogs, who they claim belong to a neighbour, smashed through a fence panel along with a Jack Russell dog at around 5am on Tuesday morning. A rare Kune Kune pig called Rodney, one of two animals owned by the couple, was attacked and later died from its injuries.
Telford police spokesman Chris Ammonds said officers attended the address after the incident and police were due to have another meeting next week to sort out a solution.
He said the owner of the dogs had also been given advice about keeping her animals under control.
Rodney's companion Gertrude, who was unharmed, has been living inside the family home ever since for fear of her safety and the married couple - who have a 16-month-old son, Harrison - have called for the dogs to be put down.
IT consultant Mark, 29, said: "I was woken up by our other neighbours who heard the commotion - Gertrude was okay but Rodney was covered in blood.
"It was a savage attack, we took him to the vets and he had suffered a broken jaw, brain and spinal damage and a collapsed lung. They did all they could but he died shortly after arriving there.
"We wanted the dogs destroyed or at the very least moved. We have a 16-month-old son. What if I am out playing football with Harrison in the garden in the future?
"It could have been him they attacked and if they have done it once they will do it again."
Emma, also 29, said the couple only bought the pigs five months ago.
"We have both been left distraught," she said.
"We only had the pigs in October and for such harmless creatures to be savaged in such a way is really worrying.
"We have been keeping Gertrude in the house since it happened in the hope we could let her back into her pen once the dogs had gone.
"Now we don't know what to do - we wanted to get another pig because they are animals that need company but how can we bring one in knowing the dogs are there?"
