Alton Towers is saying goodbye to its animals (including donkeys, rabbits, ferrets and chickens) after they were temporarily rehoused at the resort hotels. Their previous home, Old MacDonalds farmyard, has been closed to make way for Alton Towers’ brand new childrens area: CBeebies Land. It is understood that the animals are going to move to the sister park Chessington World of Adventures, which unlike Alton Towers includes a large zoo.
The farm which first opened in 1989 (as the Brittania Building Society Farm) has had animals for most of it’s tenure and in the past was populated with even more animals such as cows, sheep and other livestock. During the 2001 foot and mouth crisis the park culled it’s animals, causing some scandal in the press. A few years later the resort slowly began to reintroduce animals to the farm.
An Alton Towers spokesperson told TowersStreet: “We have been working with our colleagues at Chessington World of Adventures Resort and they are delighted to be able to offer our animals a new home in the children’s zoo. We hope they’ll be able to leave at the end of the month or early in March to ensure that they’re fully settled in before their new season starts on the 19th. We’ve met their new handlers and are sure they’re going to be thoroughly spoilt in their new home.”
The loss of the animals will leave Sharkbait Reef by SeaLife as the only remaining animal exhibit at the resort.
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