Ok Don, you asked for our
spokesperson
to come back, and here he is!
A special THANK YOU goes out to Amii John who
recently
set up a table higlighting TPDR while she was a vendor at a craft fair.
She gathered monetary donations for us throughout the day long
event at local fairgrounds! THANKS very much Amii!
And she enclosed a photo of her two equines,
Benny and Franci
Thanks for sharing! We love seeing photos of
everyone's long (and short) eared friends!
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You can now also donate to us through JUSTGIVE.ORG
Just click their logo above and you will be
taken
straight to our donation page!
Please take a few moments and visit our
Works in Progress or "REHAB" page
just to see why your sponsorships and
donations are so very important to us!
Be sure and stop by and meet "Curley & MO"
our two newest rehab patients. Curley is shown below
with the Sarcoid he is being treated for right now
We are a
Michigan based non profit organization dedicated to
the health and welfare
of miniature, standard and mammoth donkeys.
Turning Pointe Donkey Rescue
is operated by volunteers
who are committed to Donkeys and giving them a second
chance, a Turning
Pointe, in their lives.
Turning
Pointe Donkey Rescue became a reality in October 2004 when an
enthusiastic
group of people got together and decided that many
nice donkeys were
unwanted, unappreciated and often
found themselves in the meat pen at an
auction.
Our
objective is to promote the humane care and proper training
of these long
ears and to provide the public with
a better understanding of their true
nature
Our efforts will be
directed towards rescuing donkeys, and
the education of perspective
and current donkey owners.
Donkeys come to the Rescue from a
variety of difficult
situations. They will be matched with the most
compatible,
compassionate and supportive environment.
How much will it cost to adopt a donkey from TPDR?
Our adoption fee is normally
$650.00, although occasionally
a donkey may be priced a bit lower.
The fee could also be adjusted
upward depending on the
training to ride/and or drive that animal has
had while here.
The adoption fee always covers all
vaccines, farrier work,
current coggins, registration fee and
castration.
The fees associated with
transportation of adopted
donkeys are NOT included in our
adoption fee.
As of
July 2010 all long ears that are adopted from TPDR will
now be micro
chipped for permanent identification. As has
always been our practice
to register our rescue animals with ADMS each
animal's chip number will
now appear on their registration papers.
There
will be no additional fees for chipping your new friend.
The cost of
this service will be included in our current adoption fee.
Click here to learn how to sponsor a donkey
as a special gift or remembrance for a friend!
I found him on Good Friday 2002 at a large
Indiana
horse auction. He was in the kill pen.
He was very dirty, very
crippled behind, and very old.
He was timidly moving from corner to corner trying
to keep away from the aggressive, mainly
large draft horses also
on their way to the killer.
I bought him that miserable day to give him a
humane
and peaceful death. Someone had loved him once.
He was
gelded, very well trained, and totally trusting
of everyone.
Someone had dumped this gentle
old soul for the grand sum of
$31.00.
On a Friday, exactly four months after Shaggy
came
to live with me, his time had come to say goodbye.
I had gone to
town to pick up the picture that
you see here. I was gone about 30
minutes.
He was fine when I left. When I got back he wasn't
himself.
He was lying on his side. I went to him, knelt down,
and
he quietly put his dear old head on my lap and died.
Thanks for waiting for me old friend. I didn't want you to be alone.
Sharon Windsor
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On that Easter weekend in 2002, Sharon Windsor
was
already quite busy with her own miniature donkey business
and kennel that she operates at her home in Dansville Michigan,
www.akaradobe.net.
But her future was about to change dramatically.
The very day she found Shaggy
in that filthy kill pen
auction, she knew immediately that there
would always
be room both on her farm and in her heart for
rescue donkeys.
That one crippled old gentleman changed her
future with donkeys.
Now she provides a much needed home for
many discarded,
abandoned and sometimes abused donkeys while
they are
rehabilitated and a new home is found for them.
She
also continues to raise
her own herd
of donkeys
separate from TPDR, although they all live
together
with
her on her Central Michigan farm
People are
ALWAYS asking us ....why is there a
need for Donkey Rescue?
Hopefully reading Shaggy's story
and seeing a photo of this
gentle guy that was discarded
in a kill pen will help answer
that question!
Often we have new donkeys that
come to us and
for various reasons, they are not yet available for
adoption.
We know from numerous
conversations with
previous adopters and other followers of our
rescue
that many people watch the progression
of certain animals. As a result
of this, we have
started a new section of our website for our
"Donkeys
in Rehab" or our "Works in Progress"
This page will highlight our
long eared friends
that are not quite ready to leave the rescue
and go
to their forever homes.
Click here to
find out more!
INTACT JACKS ARE NEVER SUITABLE AS GUARDIAN ANIMALS !!!
They frequently injure and sometimes KILL the very
sheep and
goats they are supposed to protect.
This certainly does not
indicate that the donkey is a
bad tempered animal. It simply means
that he is
a dominant, un-castrated male doing what is very
normal
jack behavior. Much more information on
this subject is available
from American Donkey And Mule Society.
www.lovelongears.com
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