We Rescued a Donkey

My friend's Mom bought a 6 month old donkey to keep at her place in Fair Grove a little over a year ago. Everything was fine, other than the little donkey being a bit lonely, with no other equine friends.

That was until the day a stray Pit Bull showed up on the farm. The Pit attacked the donkey and destroyed her ears.

The vet came out and stitched them up the best he could, but he had to sever the tendon that holds them up, as they were so badly mangled. (Poor Donk!) As a side note, my friend's Mom shot the Pit and killed it.

Unfortunately, the Pit showed the Mom's three dogs this new game (Attack the Donkey) and the three of them began running her.

The Mom got really upset at this and was worrying all the time, so Dan and I went out to her farm on Saturday to rescue the little girl donkey.

Her name is Nell, but I think we are going to rename her. Not sure what yet. I am not really in the market for a Donkey, but I was happy to get her out of that situation!
I gave her an old pumpkin to play with...


Here she is checking out her new stall...

Sniffing around...

Here is Christmas, who snuck up to check out the new arrival...

He says "Meow"

She already seems happier. Peter (my pony) likes her a lot. Margo is not sure what to think. Poor little donkey... she really likes Daniel though! The donkey doesn't know anything though, it was a struggle to put her halter on when we went to get her and it took over an hour to load her in my trailer. She doesn't lead or pick up her feet. (I did get her to pick up one, and I made a big fuss over her and she let me pick up the rest, but I have not tried to clean them yet.) My farrier, Cody, was out yesterday to shoe Margo and trim Pete, so he looked at her too. He said she was long in the toe, but not too bad. He said work with her and her feet a lot, and next time he comes to do my two, he will see how she is.

Here she is checking out her little water bucket. I think she is cute, but I feel bad for her. Hopefully, I will be able to find her a good home at some point. I am going to keep her awhile though and let her chill out.
Oh yeah, my neighbor has donkeys and one of them brayed last night, and our little girl donkey go sooo excited! She was like "Hey,that's my language!" I don't think she has heard a bray since she was a baby. She hasn't let loose a full bray yet, but she makes really quiet little eee-awws, which freak my mare Margo out. :)