Page 23 - Hillside 2015 20th Anniversary Newsletter

2012 We give a home to 60 stray and featured a Hillside Farm Animal
abandoned horses and ponies and
20 saved from flooding and neglect... Investigation 23rd Sept 2012

A horse crisis spread across the country and rather than being asked to take in 23
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 which
resulted in Hillside giving sanctuary to a herd of sixty stray and abandoned
horses and ponies from South Wales. We couldn’t refuse to help these
homeless horses, who had nowhere else to go. They had been impounded by
the council after they were found straying on housing estates, school grounds
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 mares
and foals, who had been abandoned on wasteland that had flooded and were
only being fed by kind members of the public who had taken pity on them.
When their field flooded they became trapped on a railway embankment and,
to keep them from starving, Fire crews launched dinghies and transported hay
to them across the deep water.