Garden centre goat video goes viral
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A Pennine garden centre has acheived world-wide fame this Christmas after a BBC News video clip of their adopted baby pygmy goat has been viewed over 30 million times.
Pot House Hamlet, which includes Horsfields Plant Nursery, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has become home to Benjamin, an orphaned 5 week old pygmy goat who lives with Tom Horsfield, son of owner Tom Horsfield.Benjamin’s is one of twins but his mother didn’t take to him. There appeared to be little hope for the baby boy so in stepped Tom. Tom has been hand rearing the baby goat day and night and now he has turned a corner and really healthy. Benjamin follows Tom everywhere at Pot House Hamlet, he meets and greets the customers and loves to skip and jump around the place. The BBC visited Pot House Hamlet to produce a segment for the news which went viral and had over 16 million views in 72 hours.
Since then, Benjamin and Tom have made a visit to the BBC News studios, with interesting outcomes, and now the original video has had over 30 million views from all over the world including 9 million people in America and 1 in 26 people in Australia have seen the footage too.
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Read more on the Pot House Hamlet Blog
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