Dog walkers are being warned to keep their pets on a lead after suspected poisonous pellets were found near dead foxes in a park.
Posters have gone up in Bramley Fall Park, Bramley warning people to look out for the pellets and to keep a close eye on their pets, LeedsLive reports.
Several dead animals have reportedly been found near to the mounds of small pellets in recent weeks.
Richard Coulthard, takes his bull lurcher Bouncer and collie-retriever cross Jake for a walk in the park everyday and first noticed the posters two weeks ago.
The 32-year-old said: "For the past two months, we have pretty much exclusively been walking the dogs in the park because of the lockdown.
"I saw a couple of dead foxes in the park and thought it was really strange that two had died within the space of a couple of days.
"Then we saw the posters go up."
Bramley Fall Park, which runs alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal, is one of the busiest in the city and is hugely popular with dog walkers in west Leeds.
Richard admits he has been left "really worried" and fears a dog may soon eat the pellets and die.
"At first, I thought they were dog treats, but then I put two and two together just in time," he said.
"My lurcher was sniffing around them. Lurchers will eat anything, so that's why I'm really worried.
"When we compared locations of the dead foxes with other dog walkers, it appears that there are more then just the two that we saw.
"No one knows who is doing it and why they are doing it. If they're going to kill a fox, then they're probably going to kill a dog too."
The posters have been nailed to trees around the park to make dog owners aware of the situation.
They say: "If you see any poison pellets, please take a picture of it in the place you found it.
"Call 101 to report it. If you see any dead foxes in the woods, please take a picture and please email foxhelpers@outlook.com and remember the location so we can go investigate the area."
