A dog owner has appeared in court charged with allowing her pets to kill dozens of ducks at a farm near Elgin.
Belinda King is accused of owning two huskies alleged to have killed 80 ducks and two sheep in separate incidents at the same Moray farm.
The 42-year-old appeared in the dock at Elgin Sheriff Court where she made no plea and was ordained to appear at a later date.
The first charge against her states that she was the owner of two huskies which were allowed to kill 80 ducks and worry “numerous others”.
Court papers detail two incidents
The court papers state the dogs chased the birds in a way “which would reasonably cause suffering” at Mayne Farm in Elgin on September 12.
The second charge, dated exactly one week later and at the same farm, accuses her dogs of further livestock worrying by attacking two sheep.
Police issued an appeal immediately after the owners of Allarburn Farm Shop, in Edgar Road, made a public plea for information.
King was charged by officers one day after the second alleged incident.
Speaking on her behalf in court, defence agent Stephen Carty asked for a continuation stating it was “not a case I wish to rush to gain instruction in given the nature of the charges”.
Sheriff Peter Anderson allowed the case to be continued until next month.
King, of Glenlossie Drive, Elgin, was ordered to appear again then.
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