Page 44 - Hillside Anniversay Newsletter

2012 We Give a Home to 60 Stray an
Abandoned Horses and Ponies
Save 20 from Flooding and Neg

A horse crisis spread across the country and, rather than being asked to
one or two horses at a time, we began to take in whole herds.

In one case, we received an urgent call from a Trading Standards Officer
resulted in Hillside giving sanctuary to a herd of sixty stray and abandon
horses and ponies from South Wales. We couldn’t refuse to help these
homeless horses, who had nowhere else to go. They had been impoun
the council after they were found straying on housing estates, school gr
and busy roads where they were in danger of being hit by traffic.

We were also asked to help another herd of horses, including pregnant
and foals, who had been abandoned on wasteland that had flooded and
only being fed by kind members of the public who had taken pity on the
When their field flooded they became trapped on a railway embankmen
to keep them from starving, fire crews launched dinghies and transporte
to them across the deep water.