The incident happened in north Wales, with two Jack Russell dogs found to be responsible for the attack.

One ewe died as a result of its injuries, while one lamb suffered an attack to its face. Another sheep received injuries to its back.

Officers from the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team live-tweeted their investigation into the attack.

Rob Taylor, the rural crime team manager, said that the police should not have to be dealing with this, that owners should have more responsibility for their dogs.

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“If you’re going out during the day, make sure you know where your dog is. If you’re walking them, use that long thing that’s called a lead.

“It enables the sheep to be alive and farmers not to have to put up with this ongoing problem they have which is harrowing for them. There’s no winners with this in the end.

“All we’re going to find is that dogs have to be destroyed and we keep going around in circles.”

In another video posted to the Twitter account, PC Dave Allen explains that one of the sheep died of shock with about £150 worth of loss to the farmer as a result of the dog attack.

The police traced the owner of the dogs that were involved in the attack. It appears that they escaped from their owner’s home and did the damage to the sheep.

PC Allen said: “The dog owner admits that it was his dog that done it so we’ve dealt with it with the victim’s full agreement.

“Basically the dog owner will pay the victim compensation for the loss of stock, plus the costs of vets bills.”

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