A 20-year-old horse was chased by a dog out of her field over a metal five-bar gate and on to a road days after a move to strengthen laws on livestock worrying was heard in parliament.

Owner Charlotte Mitchell was at work on Monday morning (8 December) when she received a call through her doorbell camera from a man asking if one of her horses had got out.

“I could see the gate was shut, and thought they couldn’t have got out over the 10ft high hedges around the field. Then I saw her fly by and realised, ‘That’s my mare’,” she told .

“He was a bit horsey, so I directed him to where the headcollars were and asked if he could grab her, while I saw who I could get hold of.”

She contacted a couple of friends, who were there within minutes. The mare who had jumped out, MJ, had cuts on her fr

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