Page 8 - Hillside 2018 Web Newsletter

Breaking News Trading Standards Requested
our Immediate help...
As we go to press, we were contacted by Trading
Standards, who asked if we could take in a group of Trading Standards sent us these
ten cows and a calf, and seven horses, including a photos of the horses and cows
stallion and a foal, whose owner could no longer before they travelled to us. With
cope. some being clearly very thin, we
were happy to be able to offer
The animals were found in an emaciated condition them a home at Hillside.
after their original owner had died, and her After they arrived the Trading
daughter had tried to take on their care, but had Standards Officer said he had
found it all too much and the condition of the slept better that night knowing
animals had deteriorated to the point where the the animals were safe
authorities had to step in.

The owner, who meant well, turned down the
option to sell the cows for slaughter and instead
asked for them to go to a sanctuary.

Despite our very real concerns about the coming
winter weather and rising hay prices, we were
pleased to be able to offer these animals a home
at our Shire Horse Sanctuary in West Runton.

Dumped at the Roadside...

While out walking, one of our supporters came upon a
distressing sight on a country road... In the ditch beside her,
were several young chicks which had been heartlessly discarded
and left to die. Several had already perished, but she managed
to pick up the survivors and bring them to Hillside where you
can see them all grown up and fully recovered (right).

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