Heehaw! Anyone care to adopt a donkey (or two)?

[Dover]

Can't decide which of these three lovable characters is funnier..lol!




Bertram man starts donkey rescue effort

BERTRAM — The sores under Burnet's eyes were healing nicely one sunny November afternoon in Bertram. The white donkey stood close by Charles Munro, the man who rescued him one day before Burnet was scheduled to be euthanized.

Munro, a designer for an architectural firm, has just started a nonprofit organization called Texas Donkey Rescue on an acre in Bertram.

Burnet, found wandering on a county road by a Burnet County sheriff's deputy , is one of three donkeys in Munro's small pasture. Munro hopes to rescue several more by persuading people to foster the animals on their land. In the few months since his rescue efforts became public, people have contacted him about 100 donkeys needing help, Munro said.

Texas has the biggest problem with donkey abandonment in the nation, said Mark Meyers, the executive director of Tehachapi, Calif.-based Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, the largest donkey rescue organization in the U.S. There is no grass for donkeys to eat in Texas because of the drought, he said, and the price of hay has tripled from $75 per ton last year to $260.

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http://www.statesman.com/news/local/bertram-man-starts-donkey-rescue-effort-2024814.html?cxtype=rss_williamson

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Quick question - are the 'old' threads now gone for good or how might I access them? I particularly wanted to respond to
a thread I read here yesterday which has now vanished apparently.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. My uncle had a pair of mules - Laverne & Shirley

Last edited Sun Dec 11, 2011, 09:13 AM - Edit history (1)

this was just a test of DU3 functionality... and to let everyone know my uncle had mules named after 70's TV sitcom characters

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. I would love to have a couple of donkeys!!

Thanks for the link.

[jwirr]

3. I live in MN so probably not a good place for a donkey but I do have a question. Farmers are always

looking for useful animals for their farms - what are donkeys used for? I know you cannot eat them. What are they useful for?

[tosh]

5. I am told that donkeys keep coyotes away.

I don't know if it's true or not.

[jwirr]

8. Thank you.

[Vincardog]

9. Donkeys hate coyotes. They will kick the living shit out of them.

I have seen it.

[Kali]

6. you can ride them, pack on them, drive them (to a cart/buggy) and they make good stock guards

they generally hate dogs and coyotes

fertile jacks of good breeding are bred to mares to get mules and the opposite is known as a hinny although much less common

[jwirr]

7. Thank you.

[xmas74]

4. How sweet!

But Mules are the thing around here.