An MP apologised to a member of a ferret club yesterday after his Jack Russell savaged her polecat to death in front of crowds at a county show.
Andrew Turner, the Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, was walking around the island's annual show when his nine-year-old terrier, Bert, caught sight of Socks, a four-year-old polecat, which was being exercised on a harness.
Bert lunged forward, causing Mr Turner to lose hold of his lead. The dog sank its teeth into the polecat and it took four people and a bucket of cold water to force him to loosen his grip. By then it was too late to save Socks and he was put down by the show's vet.
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