Page 7 - Hillside 2015 20th Anniversary Newsletter

1999 Hillside Farm Animal
Investigations Begin...
700 Rescued Animals...

Actor Martin Shaw One of our first Farm Animal Investigations
becomes Hillside’s Patron... exposed the terrible conditions inside a
Norfolk battery egg farm. We found hens
When Martin Shaw and his wife Vicky perched on the dead bodies of their
arrived at the Sanctuary with Eric and companions as eggs piled up behind the
Ernie, two beautiful ducks they had rescued lifeless, decaying birds.
from a local intensive duck farm, we were only too pleased to help by offering
them a home. Martin was so impressed by Hillside he offered to become our Patron We went on to show just how many of the
and we are very grateful that he has remained so ever since, supporting our work. UK’s farms were in a similar, appalling
condition, and that the authorities would
○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ often cover it up by trying to hide the truth
from a public that was becoming increasingly
William the Shire Horse Joins our Adoption Scheme concerned about animal welfare.

William arrived at the Sanctuary in August The NFU’s top regional egg representative
1999 at just fifteen months old. He had been
rejected by his previous owner because his who owned the farm, callously stated,
conformation (the way he moves) was not
quite ‘perfect.’ This didn’t matter to him as he ‘I have shown a lot of people around my
could still run and play, and it didn’t matter to
to us either. We were pleased to give him a farm and they say they can’t see what all
home where he soon joined our adoption
scheme. the fuss is about’.

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