Please sign and share this petition and in doing so you will help make it a legal requirement that sheep have to be sheared annually, by the end of June.

This will help prevent them suffering from maggot infestation which causes thousands of sheep to die painfully every year.

Many people find sheep collapsed and suffering unimaginable pain across the whole of Wales and the UK every summer, as the flies begin to lay their eggs in the long, unkempt and untreated fleeces.

This suffering can be prevented. It is currently not a legal requirement to regularly shear sheep. By signing this petition you can help make it law that farmers, small holders and anyone who has pet sheep will have to bring their flocks in to be sheared and treated by the end of June. In doing so they will help prevent these beautiful animals suffering from being eaten alive by maggots and dying a very long slow agonising death.

I have spent the last 6 years helping my local farmer with his flock, and every single year I have to deal with the heartache of watching their suffering because the farmer has failed to shear them. Once a sheep is infested, unless treated straight away, the sheep will die.

This suffering is completely unnecessary and by signing this petition you will help create a law that will help bring about the end of this needless animal cruelty. 

Thank you.