• Painful mutilations are performed on lambs without anaesthetic.
• Their tails are cut off and the males castrated.
• Most lambs are 'mulesed' which involves cutting slices of skin from the buttocks to produce a wool-less scar area that is less likely to attract flies.

Cruelty Offences:
The victims:

• Causing an animal unnecessary pain
• 20 Million lambs each year

• IIn the ultra-fine wool industry, sheep are kept confined individually or in small groups in pens indoors, denying them exercise and the ability to perform natural behaviours such as grazing.

• Failing to provide adequate exercise
• At least 10,000 sheep