Heard of the Lone Ranger? Think this must have been his horse in a previous life - Lone Horse!!

Every year we have about 15-20 rescued horses on the meadow at the bottom of our garden and for about the last three or four years this horse with slightly unusual markings has spent his spring and summer months with us.

I’ve just received a rather distressing email from my local animal sanctuary. Apparently next year the EU are relaxing laws for the importation of dogs into the UK from Romania without undergoing lengthy periods of quarantine.

It appears that Romania have been under the ever watchful eye of Hillside for some considerable time and have seen first hand the sort of abuse these dogs have to endure but, up until now, other than a touch of human kindness and some limited veterinary care they’ve been powerless to get them back to the UK