Tauranga City council animal control officers are seeking help from the public in locating dogs that have been killing sheep in Bellevue over recent weeks.

There have been three attacks on small mobs of sheep on two properties along Bellevue Road and Princess Road, leaving 28 sheep dead.

Tauranga City Council animal control officer Brent Lincoln thinks there's two dogs involved.

'Looking at the injuries and the number, I would say there's two dogs involved and obviously medium to large ones to do the damage they have.

'But beyond that, we have no sightings and no further information that gives us the lead.”

The first attack was Murray Davis' property in Bellevue Road down opposite Mitchell Park, where six sheep were killed.

The second was on Basil and Anne Graeme's mob in Princess Road overnight on November 18, where 14 sheep were killed. Read more here.

This was then followed by a second visit to Bellevue Road mob last Saturday when eight more sheep were killed by the dogs, leaving one survivor.

'They hit one property, hit the other and back to the first over a period of two weeks,” says Brent.

He suspects the dogs are from the Bellevue area and he wants to hear from anyone who has seen a pair of roaming dogs.

'If they can get a photo safely that would be great, or just report them to council.

'They can travel quite a distance, but I suspect from the commonality of where the attacks happened that they are from that general area.”

Both mobs are out of public view.

The Graemes have had sheep to keep the grass down on their property for 40 years.

The Davis mob lived in a gully east of Bellevue Road.

Brent doesn't know how many city residents keep sheep, they don't have to be registered with the council.

'There will be sheep scattered around the place.”