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Ben the Bullock...
300Rescued Animals...
Having rescued three cows,Olga,Jersey and Black Bess, from a Sunderland city farm that was forced to close,concern grew among Hillside staff who could see that Bess was not content as she would wander around her field as if looking for somebody.
We contacted the now-closed city farm and discovered that Bess had a calf who had been taken away from her and sold to a farmer. Happily we were able to bring her calf, called Ben, to Hillside to be reunited with his mother.
It was such a happy ending to see the bond restored between mother and her calf, but it is a bond the farming industry routinely breaks to provide people with milk. Today, Ben is now an elderly bullock, but still lives happily at the Sanctuary.
Alice Comes to Hillside
When gentle Alice the camel was put up for auction we were very pleased when a kind supporter paid for her to come to Hillside,saving her from a life in the circus! Alice found an inseparable friend in Topsy, a camel rescued from Chipperfield’s circus who were prosecuted for cruelly mistreating their animals.
