Treasured pet rabbits had their necks snapped, bodies stamped on and teeth knocked out in an attack condemned as vicious and sickening.

Owner Michelle Grogan said she was physically sick when she discovered the bodies of her rabbits Rosie and Raggles strewn across the garden.

The beloved pets were two of four killed on the same night on a cul-de-sac in Windhill, Shipley.

Thugs smashed their way into three neighbours’ hutches, removing the floor of one and kicking their way into two more, leaving wire mesh ripped out of shape and hanging from the door.

Miss Grogan said: “There were rabbits all over the garden. They looked like they’d been jumped on. One had its teeth knocked out. It was horrible. I just vomited,” she said.

“I couldn’t talk and I’ve not slept since.”

The 36-year-old discovered the bodies early one morning and immediately told her next-door neighbour, Lisa Kendall, who went out to find the body of her daughter Ellie’s pet rabbit, Peanut, a few yards away.

Miss Kendall, a mother-of-three, said she barely recognised the animal, who the family had been looking after for nine months.

“Peanut was a big fluffy rabbit and it was just squashed. It had had its neck snapped. It was disgusting,” she said.

The pair then went to check on Kimberley Clapham, 22, who also lives on West Royd Terrace and found her four-year-old son’s rabbit, Fluffy, lifeless on the ground.

“We had to try to get our kids to school without seeing them. We couldn’t move the rabbits until the police had been,” Miss Kendall, 40, said.

“They’re sick. I just don’t understand what goes through their mind to do that.

“There are toys, sand pits and trampolines in the gardens. It’s obvious they belong to kids and they’re not the ones who had to tell the children – they were devastated.”

Six-year-old Ellie made a cross at her school, Christ Church Academy, to mark the animals’ shared grave.

Miss Kendall and Miss Grogan are desperate to warn other pet owners – especially since being told that two rabbits had died on nearby West Royd Crescent the previous weekend.

None of the mothers plan to get any more rabbits. Miss Kendall said: “It’s too upsetting. I couldn’t risk putting Ellie through that again.”

Miss Clapham has not told her son Jake what has happened as he would be too upset.

“I just put his hood up over his head when I was walking him to school,” she said.

“I was going to get another one, but I’ve been told not to.”

A police spokesman said: “We are keeping an open mind about this incident. Anyone with any information or any witnesses are asked to contact police on 101.”