The dogs were taken by North Yorkshire Police ... Sergeant Mark Earnshaw added: "Badger baiting is a barbaric offence, which ...

Two men who killed a badger after forcing their dogs to fight the creature have been jailed. Kenneth Kieron Wade, 29, and Stephen Thomas Rose, 39, were discovered with injured dogs and a muddy ...

Baiting involves deliberately setting up fights between hunting dogs and wild animals like foxes and badgers. Baiting badgers is illegal because badgers are a protected species while foxes have no ...