Page 35 - Hillside 2015 20th Anniversary Newsletter

Blueberry and Gooseberry... Pig Rescue...

We received a frantic call from a lady who We received a call from Trading Standards asking
for our help with 25 pigs and piglets, also goats,
had owned two Dexter cows, mother and they had seized after finding them existing in
deplorable conditions. Since taking in the pigs,
daughter, for nine years. On moving to their numbers have doubled as all the sows were
pregnant. We have, of course, had all the boars
France, she had re-homed them to someone castrated to prevent further breeding!

who promised to keep them as pets, while It is only through the kind help of our supporters that we are
able to give sanctuary to animals such as Blueberry and
agreeing that she would retain the passports Gooseberry who find themselves in such desperate situations.

for a year to ensure their future. However,

she was later contacted byTrading Standards

and told that the man she had entrusted to (Above) The cows, as they were
look after her cows, had been banned from rescued and (top) as they are now.

keeping animals and her cows had been found in poor condition after being turned

out and straying on the busy A47. A kindly businessman took on the difficult task of

catching the now terrified animals and took them to safety. With no passports,

Trading Standards were threatening to put them to sleep. Luckily, a local person

recognised them and put TS in touch with their previous owner, who, in order to

save their lives, rushed back to England to prove they were legally registered. Unable

to take the cows back to France, she put out an SOS for someone to give them a

permanent loving home and one of our supporters suggested she contact Hillside...