Vegan Activist Almost Kills Stolen Lamb After Attempt to Hand-Rear It
A vegan activist who stole a lamb from a farm and almost killed it with her botched attempts to hand-rear it has been banned from owning sheep. The Telegraph has the story.
Louise Murguia, 49, kidnapped the animal from a field because she thought it was injured and in distress and she could take better care of it.
She took it home where she shampooed it to remove the identifying number on its fleece and fed it cow’s milk and a formula feed she bought from Amazon.
The animal was confined in her house for three weeks before police attended the property and found it was malnourished.
The lamb belonged to Stuart Ludwell of Hile Farm in Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
One of his ewes had died suddenly the night before the theft, leaving two lambs orphaned.
As it was dark, Mr Ludwell decided to wait until morning to retrieve them so as not to distress the other ewes and newborns by chasing them.
But when he returned to the field with his wife and two children, they could only find one lamb and assumed the other must have been taken by a fox.
It was not until three weeks later that he received a tip-off that the lamb had in fact been taken by Murguia who lives nearby and walks her dog in the area.
She later told police she had taken the lamb because it appeared to have a broken leg and she thought it wouldn’t survive the night.
But she did not seek medical treatment for it and simply made a splint for its leg herself.
When it was recovered by police, the stolen lamb weighed just 5.8 kg, while the other lamb that was hand-reared by the Ludwell family was 9.95 kg.
Murguia posted on Facebook at the time: “I am a vegan, hate me if you like. I love and respect animals.” …
Recorder Nicholas Haggan KC sentenced Murguia to a 12-month community order with a six-month alcohol treatment requirement and six rehabilitation activity days.
He also made an indefinite restraining order preventing Murguia from contacting Mr Ludwell, going to his farm or feeding any livestock within two miles of it, and banned her from keeping or owning sheep indefinitely.
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Thanks to Will Jones & the DS for featuring this jaw-dropping story! The poor farmers have enough trouble with arrogant dog-owners letting their vicious dogs of all sizes chase, attack and kill livestock, without Crazed Vegans actually kidnapping lambs as well.
Dog attacks on livestock – the true cost – NFUonline
Crazed ALCOHOLIC vegans, no less…..
Yes! And was she lacing the lamb’s food with alcohol to keep him quiet?
Is he addicted now, we wonder, and will he be sneaking down the pub later on?
Meh-pic fail?
Yes, I thought they should have let one of the men hold the lamb.
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So if she tries to escape will she be described “as on the lamb”?
I’ll get me coat.
Best joke ever on the Simpsons was when Grandpa, running from the FBI, said, “Call me mint sauce, ‘cos I’m on the lam”.
“Six-month alcohol treatment requirement…”
…Dead giveaway. Vegan and alcohol abuse – double trouble.
I hope they checked her dogs weight and what she feeds them.
It is silly to try and make a story about lambs. I knew a man who used to train sheepdogs and they would kill lambs and sheep in the early stages of their training. We eat them for god’s sake. There is nothing to get sentimental about. We cultivate them and kill them because we like the taste. This animal crap is the lowest of the low.
The point is the Crazed Alcoholic Vegan’s sheer hypocrisy: kidnapping a lamb and feeding it heaven-knows-what, keeping it trapped indoors wearing a nappie, for Pete’s sake, in solitary confinement away from other sheep, and thinking she was being “kind” to it.
She should be done for sheep rustling.
It does make you wonder, though, whether it was she herself who killed the twin lambs’ mother in the darkness. Otherwise, how would she know they were there, and orphaned, when even the farmer decided to leave them overnight so as not to disturb the other lambs and ewes by chasing the orphans? How did the Crazed Vegan know they were there in the darkness? Did she or her dog kill the twin lambs’ mother before the farmer came to check on the flock that evening? Where is Agatha Christie when you need her…
It was the butler.
In the library.
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The lamb in question is a contributor to a man’s livelihood. It’s about theft.
So basically the story is really that an alcoholic with no experience with farm animals tried and failed to raise a lamb. The vegan bit is just click bait.
No! The Vegan bit is vital, because like all vegans, she claims to love animals so much and hate all of us carnivores, while being cruel to lambs herself.
Rescuing a baby sheep from an alcoholic. Three police persons required. Makes sense.
Indeed the only vegan food I like is gin, and vodka.
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Veganism – it clearly drove her to drink.
An allegory for our times.
Someone sees something wrong in an area they have no expertise, decides they are going to do something about it, wades in and ends up making the situation worse.
Let’s christen the lamb ‘Miliband’!
And then let’s eat it, very soon, having fattened it up on fine food paid for by taxpayers whilst flying it around the world on private jets, during which time it can bleat to itself to its heart’s content…
Put her in the Cabinet! She’ll fit right in.
The ban on owning or keeping sheep sheep seems a bit pointless. Ban her from owning any animals and take her dog away would have been more fitting. And where were the Far Left do-gooder RSPCA during all this. Is that a deafening silence I can hear?
Vegan. Explanation enough.
I thought the penalty for sheep-stealing was hanging.