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Locals in UK town that were 'terrorised by fish-eating otters' say they've returned
Residents in a UK town that were 'terrorised by fish-eating otters' say they have come back. Several locals who live in Ulverston, Cumbria, reported the animals were breaking into their ponds and killing their Koi Carp fish in October. This includes Nigel Cooper, 61, who witnessed an otter jump into his pond and kill nine of his fish - including four goldfish, two Koi - in the middle of the night. But Nigel says that nobody in the local area saw the otters for a few weeks, so residents assumed that the animals had died. However, shocking CCTV footage captured in the early hours of Friday, November 29, morning shows the otter going onto the garden before being scared off. Nigel, who admits that he "loves otters", said: "The dogs were barking and a light sensor I had fitted went off. "We only saw it for a split second because the dogs barking scared it away. "It's a pretty big otter, it was quite plump as well. "I knew it would come back because if they know that there is food there, then they will try and get it again. "It was obviously shocked by the electric fence and didn't like it, so that scared the otter away - which was a success. "I don't know how it got in the garden though, I've got a six ft fence on one side and I've got vines up - that's the only place it could have got in. "This is the first otter sighting we've had for two or three weeks - so it's back." Nigel, a former operations manager, believes the population of otters in the area has recently increased and now they are having to find more food sources. But he as there has been local reports that three otters have been hit by cars, they assumed they had been killed. Nigel said: "Nobody has seen them for weeks so people had thought they had gone, but I knew they were coming back. "There was a reported hit and run of two otters around eight miles away from me, but when I checked I didn't find anything. "But it was confirmed that one otter had been hit near the canal, that was a definite road kill unfortunately. "We thought that these three otters were the ones that were going around town but this could be a separate one - but it's a big one." Nigel even created a Facebook page to track the animals and is recording every single otter-related incident in the area on a map. He's advising people to try and prevent the otters from coming onto their gardens, by blocking up every hole they can and by stopping them from climbing fences. Nigel said: "I've trained my two Chihuahuas to bark at …
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