TV host receives threats over trophy pics of slain ‘farm animals’

A television host has been subjected to death threats after proudly sharing photos of dead farm animals from a hunting trip to Scotland on social media.

Larysa Switlyk, who hosts the U.S. cable TV program, Larysa Unleashed, took to Instagram to post photos of herself alongside her kills.

In the snaps, which were uploaded over the last two weeks, the 33-year-old triumphantly showed off two dead goats, a sheep and a red deer stag.

Larysa proudly declared she was “in awe of my Scottish Stag” in one caption and people were quick to lash out at her and even went as far as death threats.

“You’re a terrible excuse for a human being,” commented one user.

One commenter wrote: “The only thing that should be hunted is folk like you ya subhuman witch! Stay away from our beautiful land & our incredible wildlife. You are not welcome!!”

“You travel thousands of miles to shoot an animal and look at the pride on your face...all for monetary gain. Can only echo some comment above..,” added another.

The ‘professional huntress’ also announced they were having “the time of our lives hunting Scotland,” although she has turned the comments off in her latest posts.

It hasn’t stopped the backlash and even Ricky Gervais has hit out with a very explosive tweet damning Larysa’s actions.

“A couple of c--ts, dressed up like c--ts, shooting a beautiful animal, then posing with the murdered carcass like right c--ts and posting it on social media to show the world what c--ts they are,” he wrote alongside a retweet of one of her photos.

Despite the backlash the 33-year-old posted a selfie as she headed out for her next hunting adventure and declared she was going to be “out of service for 2 weeks”.

She wrote: “Nothing better than disconnecting from this social media driven world and connecting back with nature. Hopefully that will give enough time for all the ignorant people out there sending me death threats to get educated on hunting and conservation. FYI , I was in Scotland over a month ago ...”

There are several tourism companies who allow visitors to stalk and shoot wild goats in Islay, Dumfries, Galloway and other areas of the UK according to the BBC.

Wild goats have no natural predators and are considered to be an invasive, non-native species in the area and hunting on private land is legal according to the report.