Page 13 - Hillside 2015 20th Anniversary Newsletter

2005

Boris the Bull...

While carrying out an investigation, we discovered a
number of farm animals kept in squalor on a Norfolk
farm. Amongst them we found Boris, a gentle bull,
marooned in three feet of excrement. Weak and
emaciated, he had collapsed and had no strength left
to get up.

We immediately stepped in to help Boris and he was
featured in an urgent appeal, where he won the hearts
of sanctuary staff and supporters alike.

Sadly, although we were able to help Boris to stand again
and were optimistic he might survive, despite all our care
and hopes for Boris, his condition deteriorated and, with
Wendy by his side, he just slipped away.

His owner was later prosecuted and banned from
keeping animals, except for pigs! We later returned to
the farm and filmed pigs still being kept in squalor.

We captured this investigation
on film and you may watch
‘The Story of Boris the Bull’
narrated by Hillside’s Patron,
Martin Shaw by clicking here.

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