A taxpayer-funded anti-littering campaign has gone viral for the wrong reasons after a huge mural appears to show a pigeon having sex with a rabbit.

The bizarre graffiti artwork in Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands is the centrepiece of a £74,000 Government-funded project aimed at reducing rubbish in deprived areas.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council paid a local graffiti artist to design a mural at a littering hotspot in the town.

But residents have branded the image, which appears to show a pigeon grabbing onto a crouching rabbit which in turn is holding onto a rat’s tail, as “obscene".

This footage was filmed on July 16.

A taxpayer-funded anti-littering campaign has gone viral for the wrong reasons after a huge mural appears to show a pigeon having sex with a rabbit.

The bizarre graffiti artwork in Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands is the centrepiece of a £74,000 Government-funded project aimed at reducing rubbish in deprived areas.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council paid a local graffiti artist to design a mural at a littering hotspot in the town.

But residents have branded the image, which appears to show a pigeon grabbing onto a crouching rabbit which in turn is holding onto a rat’s tail, as “obscene".

This footage was filmed on July 16.