Two Cumbrian men have denied badger baiting in southern Scotland.
Stephen Rumney, 30, from Harriston, Aspatria and Darren Williams, 38, from Brook Street, Maryport have pleaded not guilty to offences under the Protection of Badgers Act, the Animal Health and Welfare Act and the Protection of Wild Mammals Act.
The offences are alleged to have taken place at Darlawhill Farm, Middlebie, near Lockerbie, between January and March last year.
Both were accused at Dumfries Sheriff Court of using dogs to flush out, attack and kill a badger, interfere with a badger sett by allowing a dog with a locating collar to enter the sett.
Both also deny separate charges of failing to obtain adequate veterinary treatment for dogs and Rumney pleaded not guilty to abandoning a dog.
How can these people live with themselves? What a shame the rest of us must suffer by living on the same planet. Especially the poor animalls.
I would suggest someone dig a big hole put these bastards in cover them up to die by suffocation thats the least they deserve the evil evil people. Sometimes I am ashamed to be part of the human race.