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A FAMILY of otters has wiped out a whole pond of fish from the back garden of a family home, an angry resident has said after he caught CCTV footage of the creatures.
Clive Mason noticed his pond full of koi carp had been diminishing over the last few weeks but thought a mink or other creature may have been responsible.
But after setting up CCTV motion-sensitive cameras in his back garden he discovered who the true culprits were.
Mr Mason contacted the Mail after seeing our video footage of otters playing in the River Welland last week.
He believes otters have now eaten all of the 300 koi carp kept in his 20-foot pond in his garden in Lubenham Hill.
He said: “We have got video footage of them in our garden.
“They have eaten our whole family of fish – there was 300 of them.
“Some of them were nine pounds in weight.
“It is just heartbreaking and we don’t know what to do because we are not far from the River Welland.”
They were eaten over a period of eight weeks and now there is nothing left.
Mr Mason said he is devastated and told the Mail he cannot bring himself to consider the cost.
The fish had been bred from an original family-of-three and Mr Mason is now reluctant to replace them for fear the same might happen again.
Mr Mason said: “There is nothing you can really do about it other than to make people aware.
“Perhaps people could set up electric fences?”
This is not the first time an otter family has left family ponds empty of their charges.
In August 2008 the Mail reported how Stuart James, of The Woodlands, Harborough, was mystified after fish began disappearing from his 20 foot garden pond.
He originally thought it was a heron and continued to restock the pond until he came face to face with one of the otters who had been feeding from his pond.
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