The county council has been told to cut its budget for dealing with the bluetongue and foot and mouth outbreaks after an accounting foul-up.
Cambridgeshire County Council Trading Standards, which has been dealing with hundreds of calls since the outbreaks of the diseases, has been told to slash its budget by 10 per cent - about £8,000.
Council animal health teams across the UK had been promised funding totalling £9.77 million from Defra for the current financial year.
The money was promised under a funding arrangement set up specifically to prevent and control animal disease following the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001.