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The Maryport Advertiser - May 5, 1882

A MAD DOG.
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 Considerable destruction has been done by a mad dog in the neighbourhood of Stourbridge, and the animal is now practically identified with one which has worked similar mischief at Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
 
 A few weeks ago the dog, which was then not suspected of madness, was found by a policeman in a field of breeding ewes belonging to Messrs. H. And N. SMITH, farmers near Stourbridge.
 
 A great many lambs were lying about dead or so lacerated that they had to be killed, the owners losing, in the first instance, twenty-three in this way. During the last week other lambs and ewes have been bitten by the dog have gone raving mad and have either died or been shot. The ewes were in a furious state, tearing to pieces anything that came near.
 
 The Stourbridge magistrates issued an order on Saturday requiring all dogs at large be muzzled, as it is not known, what other dogs the animal referred to may have been bitten.
 
 Within twenty-four hours of Messrs. SMITH’s flock being attacked a farmer at Tettenhall lost 30 lambs by the ravages of a strange dog....(the rest of this article is missing.)
 
 
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