HAY HAY HAY! 

We need HAY! If anyone has any
Hay to donate or would like to send us a
monetary donation to purchase hay, we
could certainly use it! 

Please contact us to arrange a delivery
if you  have any to spare or

You can donate to us through JUSTGIVE.ORG

Just click their logo above and you will be
 taken straight to our donation page!

Your work is not to drag the world

kicking and screaming into a new awareness.

Your job is to simply do your work…

Sacredly, Secretly, and Silently…

and those with 'eyes to see

and ears to hear,

will respond.

Check this great letter we received from Reika Bickle,
a student at Walled Lake Northern High School!
Reika did some research on donkey rescues and
discovered TPDR and Shaggy's story!

Click here for letter

SHAGGY, the donkey that inspired TPDR---click here for the rest of his story

Thanks Reika!  We truly appreciate your interest in TPDR!!!

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!

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 operated at her home in Dansville Michigan.

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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