Cats, Cops And Chaos

On Saturday February 20th 2000 people gathered at Hillgrove farm in one of the largest demos in the long running campaign against the only remaining breeder of cats for vivisection in the UK.

At the start of the day the police imposed an assembly point at the bottom of the lane, half a mile from the farm.

One group of activists made it round the back onto the property, Unprepared for the huge numbers the police could not stop the rest of the crowd moving up to the farm per imeter. But after about an hour police horses were brought in to try and force the crowd back down the lane.

Mounted police then proceeded to trample the crowd. One woman is still in hospital, with hoof marks covering her body and a fractured leg.

Next national demo April 18th.

Contact: Save the Hillgrove Cats, 0121 632 6460.