A video surveillance camera has caught a small flock of sheep being attacked and mauled to death by a single wolf in the Noord-Brabant village of Vlijmen late on Friday night.
The footage, shared by the farmers association ZLTO on Saturday, shows a wolf inside a sheep enclosure chasing down and snapping at the defenseless animals.
Noord-Brabant is offering farmers so-called wolf-resistant nets to protect their sheep after multiple incidents of wolf attacks on sheep in the province. Farmers who want to can get the nets from the province on loan, a spokesperson for provincial deputy Elies Lemkes-Straver said to Omroep Brabant. The province is currently checking which farmers want to use these nets.
The TokHok farm in Arnhem welcomed five baby lambs born to mother Toppertje on Tuesday, all of them boy lambs
The first free wolf in the Netherlands in about 150 years spent the weekend chasing sheep in Drenthe.
Drachten police "arrested" a sheep that had strayed from its farm, into the high way, and hindering traffic flow on the N31, Friday morning.
The first day of Q-fever examinations has begun in Herpen, which has drawn a large number of people to get their blood tested.
