Andy Murray’s five-star hotel in Scotland has removed references to hunting from its website after coming under pressure from animal rights groups.

Cromlix – the Murray-owned, Inverlochy Castle Management International-operated hotel which opened in April – was bought by the tennis star in February 2013 for around £1.8m.

Campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) sent a letter to Murray complaining that his hotel promoted hunting as a possible activity for guests.

Kirsty Henderson, campaign co-ordinator for Peta, wrote: "The idea of hunting cats and dogs, such as your beloved Maggie May and Rusty, would rightly make most of us sick, and yet the animals listed on the Cromlix website, alongside the best times of year to kill them, have exactly the same capacity to feel pain and suffer."

She added: "Will you please extend your compassion to the beautiful and sensitive wild animals who live in the vicinity of the Cromlix Hotel by refusing to promote killing as an activity to guests of your establishment?"

A spokesman for Murray's management company, 77, told local media that references to hunting were removed from the Cromlix website earlier this month and the activity was never offered on the hotel's grounds.

Murray’s is not the only leisure site to incur the wrath of campaign groups in recent months. Anna Wintour recently led the fashion industry in a protest against the Dorchester hotel collection over its links to the Sultan of Brunei, who recently ratified Sharia law in his country making homosexuality punishable by stoning to death.

Meanwhile, aquariums in North America have been increasingly feeling the heat from animal rights protesters who are demanding an end to the practice of keeping intelligent mammals such as dolphins and whales in captivity.