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A Langley dairy farmer is at a loss to explain why someone would shoot several arrows into a five-day-old calf, ensure it was dead and then make off with the carcass.

Erin Anderson, who co-owns Eagle Acres Dairy with her husband, says they came out to “a bloody scene” in the early morning of Aug. 1 and believed a coyote may have taken the calf.

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But the couple had recently installed closed circuit video cameras and instead of seeing an animal, they watched a man and woman enter the barn and shoot the calf with four to six arrows.

Anderson says the calf didn’t die and the video shows the man pulling out one of the arrows and using it to stab the animal repeatedly, then putting the dead calf in the trunk of a BMW and driving away.

RCMP Cpl. Holly Largy says investigators are reviewing the surveillance video showing a man and woman drive up to the barn, enter the enclosure and attack a calf.

Anderson says the calf’s mother was out of the barn during the violent attack on an animal that had no fear of humans.