Nana - Senoir Girl Needs Your Help

**UPDATE 1-30-07**

OLE NANNA has her forever home!! She will remain with her foster parents, Jeff and Sue Grabber of Gobles, Mi. Nanna and her foster brother Winchester, were Jeff and Sue`s very first foster donkeys. They have done a marvelous job of rehabilitating this old lady from the sorry state she was in when arriving at their farm. They decided that this grand old gal had been passed around way too many times, and her journey finally would end with her staying with them forever. Thank You to the Grabbers for adopting Old Nanna!!

**UPDATE 3-22-07**

Sue writes to tell us about Nana's progress: I had the opportunity to see Nana when she came to the rescue. To say she was a wreck is an understatement, but, she did come with some "extras". For instance:

an "Extra" six inches of growth on her hooves. After trimming she did a little hop-skip as she didn't know how to walk on normal feet.

"Extra" healed and un-healed sores on her body

"Extra" one and a half inches of teeth in the back of her mouth; her teeth were like a step stool, 1/2" long in the front and 1 1/2" long in the back. It took the veterinarian 3 power floater baldes to fix this "extra"

We took Nana as a foster to fatten her up and bring her back to health, but since then, she has subtly repaid every kindness we showed her. From being untouchable to eating peppermints out of our hands, this ole girl stole our hearts. We simply could not make her go through learning to trust someone else after her lifetime of neglect and abuse. She was abused and shuffled around for a lifetime, but never again-she's in her forever home here and she's our extra special girl!

THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US SUE!!!

Nana is a lucky gal to have found you and Jeff to spend her senior years with!

Nana's Story--Chapter One

Another story with a very happy ending!!!

Nana came to us through another rescue. She was pathetically thin and exhibited signs of years of neglect. Thanks to Dr. Brown of the Allegan Animal Hospital, who came and examined her for us, we were now able to get her the medical care she needs.

She is approximately 30 yrs. old, and is dreadfully emaciated. She had points on her teeth that are between 1 and 1 1/2 inches long, with a severe wave-mouth, and her lower incisors are also very long. She was starving to death because of the condition of her teeth!

She is eating soaked hay cubes now and never seems to get filled up. At first she would not take treats out of your hand, we would have to throw them on the ground, then she would attempt to eat them. But she is beginning to not be to worried about humans now, and is starting to take them out of our hands.

She also had a heavy parasite load, and a very bad case of advanced rain rot on her back, and possibly a suspected sarcoid on her hind quarters. Her feet had also been neglected....we did manage to trim her front feet, but want her to settle down some before we attempt the back feet.

We have no idea where this senior donkey has been, but you can bet that she has had more care and attention in the few days we have had her than she has had in the last 25 years!!