The SSPCA said it had seen a number of attacks being carried out by children.
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Following a tip-off, SSPCA inspectors found a scene of unparalleled carnage on his land.
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The officer said local residents had told the SSPCA that other cats had died in similar circumstances in previous years.
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The SSPCA said they were keen to identify whoever was responsible and warned cat owners in the area to be vigilant.
Ms Smart said the SSPCA had "constant communication" with Dechmont Air Rifle and Pistol Club near Glasgow when conducting its research.
Up until that point, the SSPCA had been tacit supporters of the cull, but without their support it is hard to see how SNH can continue the slaughter.
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Experts from the animal welfare charity the SSPCA have been trying to clean up the birds, but so far it has been possible to release only two of them.
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But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.
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