Elephant husbandry in the Western Isles of Scotland
PLOUGHING through the paperwork issued by his local council, one of whose tasks is to administer the movement of pigs between crofts on Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland, Brendon Harty came across an unexpected instruction regarding the import of livestock onto his croft.
Under the heading “Schedule 2, Movement of pigs from a farm, Form of declaration”, the document asked him to declare that: “No cattle, sheep, goats or other ruminating animals or elephants have been moved onto the premises below from which the said pigs are to be moved or onto premises in the same…
