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2014 Hillside Steps in as Major Rescue is Mounted 2000 Rescued
Animals...
to Help Abandoned Horses and Ponies...
In another emergency rescue, 39 of 49 abandoned horses and ponies that were seized by Trading Standards on Manmoel
Common to save them from a further winter of starvation, found sanctuary at Hillside.
Trading Standards Officers successfully found homes for ten of the ponies but when no other organisations came forward to
help the remainder, we couldn’t see them put to sleep and agreed to take them all in.
In the previous winter, many of the abandoned horses and ponies hadn’t survived the bleak conditions on the moors and dozens
were found simply starved to death. We are so pleased to have been able to help the survivors.
An Extra 500 Acres of Grazing
For Our Rescued Animals...
As the number of rescued animals at the
Sanctuary increased, in 2014 we took on an
additional 500 acres of grazing for our horses and
cows to roam and graze on during the summer.
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