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Ben, now 19 below right, with friends, still enjoying life at the Sanctuary in 2015

1998 300 Rescued Alice Comes to Hillside
Animals...
When gentle Alice the camel was put up
Ben the Bullock... for auction we were very pleased when a
kind supporter paid for her to come to
Having rescued three cows,Olga,Jersey and Black Hillside, saving her from a life in the circus!
Alice found an inseparable friend in Topsy,
Bess, from a Sunderland city farm that was forced to a camel rescued from Chipperfield’s
circus who were prosecuted for cruelly
close, concern grew among Hillside staff who could mistreating their animals.

see that Bess was not content as she would wander 7

around her field as if looking for somebody. Above, Bess, reunited with her
calf ,Ben, at Hillside in 1998.
We contacted the now-closed city farm and
discovered that Bess had a calf who had been

taken away from her and sold to a farmer. Happily we were able to bring her calf, called

Ben, to Hillside to be reunited with his mother.

It was such a happy ending to see the bond restored between mother and her calf, but it is a
bond the farming industry routinely breaks to provide people with milk. Today, Ben is now an
elderly bullock, but still lives happily at the Sanctuary.