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Meet the Donkeys

 
 
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Phoebe:
Phoebe is the  the oldest of our donkeys at the age of 26. She is a calming influence on the more rowdy younger donkeys that she lives with. Because of her poor start in life her hoofs are a perpetual problem as they get very crumbly in wet weather. She spends most of the winter in canvas boots to protect them. 
 
Chocolate is 6 and a new addition brought in by the Donkey Sanctuary. She was kept next to a pub and is extremely nervous of everyone and everything. However she does like ginger nut biscuits so with patience, kindness and a bit of bribery we have succeeded in taming her and she is now just as friendly as the others.
 
Starsky and Hutch, are two geldings that came to us because their owner was eight and a half months’ pregnant and couldn't cope with them. They are quite a handful but with a lot of handling they are getting much better behaved.
 
Gretel is a sweet gentle tiny grey donkey who was in extremely poor condition upon arrival. She could neither walk nor eat. Our vet filed her teeth and cut back her hoofs, cleaned up an abscess and gave us drugs for her laminitis. After a lot of hard work with glucosamine, MSM sulphur, Laminaze, Cortiflex, Magic (Magnesium), calcium granules and Farrier’s Formula in her feed she is now getting better. She had originally come over from Belgium and had been sold at a Cambridge market. Her passport said she was 3 but our vet says she is more like18!
 
Hansel is an affectionate brown male donkey who came with Gretel from the same source -fortunately apart from needing a major worming programme - like Gretel - he was not in such bad condition though he is very strong and can be quite a handful. The two are inseparable.He looks after Gretel very sweetly except at meal times when, like most equines, it is first come first served! His passport also claimed he was 3 and the veterinary estimate is approximately 10.
 
 
Here is an update for those of you who read my book “Beware Dobermans, Donkeys and Ducks”.

Henry, who had been a beach donkey at Eastbourne finally died at the grand old age of 38 in 2006.

Cherry Blossom was rescued from a tiny garden in Bognor and was known as the escapologist because she ignored all electric and most other fencing charging through it with her bulk also died at 38 three years ago.

Frances had been saved from going to market when the dealer lost his field to a housing development she also died recently at the age of 37. She was the mother of Phoebe.

Pepsi had escaped from her field up the road and turned up outside our gate so often that we decided to let her stay also died in 2006 aged 37.
 
Dandy was Pepsi's great friend as she had been rescued at the same time. We had discovered her across the road with her friend Donna who was dying. Both had been neglected after the owners had divorced. We called the vet out but it was too late to save Donna however we did manage to persuade the owner to give us Dandy. She proved to be very difficult as she had never been handled and stayed with us until she died at the good age of 37

William was a later elderly addition who came to us when his owners -  went to live in Spain. Unfortunately he was really too old to make the journey and only lasted a year with us but was such an affectionate character he was much loved and also died at the grand old age of 38. His death may also have been due to the fact that he was grieving over the death two months earlier of his great love Maddie, our sweet grey mare with half a tongue..

It can be very hard to have them all go within such a short period but that sometimes happens when they are all of a similar age.



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