Watch this video and please consider helping us out with a smooth transition into 2025. You can donate on the Facebook fundraiser seen in a post below this one, or visit my donkey business website at www.hhdonkey.org
or just pop a check in the mail payable to HHDSAR and address it to 121 Keystone Rd., Riverside, WA 98849. Thank you.
Today I followed through on my most difficult but kind decision to help Odie cross the Rainbow Bridge.
It's never easy to let them go, but I'm at peace knowing that I gave him all the special care and attention that money could buy (thanks to the financial support of my donors who loved Odie as much as my volunteers and Board members did). He left this world, knowing someone cared enough to do what was right. It’s hard, (it always is), but watching him walk was even harder.
Sleep sweetly dearest Odie, browse peacefully with those who have gone before you.
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WE FINALLY GOT THE OTHER HALF OF THE BARN STALLS FINISHED. THANKS TO CONTINUED FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM OUR DONORS...
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This cut my sweeping time tremendously and now I can spend a little more time taking care of administrative things in the office.
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What a great way to spend a birthday. Thanks for dropping by, and taking some time out to enjoy a donkey walk about. You-all come back now.
CONSIDERING REHOMING YOUR DONKEY(S) BUT ARE HESITANT ABOUT LEAVING THEM WITH A SHELTER?
Are you finding yourself in a position where you have to give up your beloved donkey(s) but just aren't comfortable with leaving them at a shelter; yet at the same time, you're also struggling with the fear of them ending up in a bad situation if placed in an ad in a public market publication or other ad format or selling them on Craiglist (where kill pen brokers often look for their equine)?
Want to make sure they go to a good home and remain safe, happy and healthy throughout the remainder of their life?
Partner with us! 😃
Where circumstances warrant it, we will work with the surrendering owner through our "Direct Home Placement Program" which allows the owner to foster their own donkey(s) and participate in the rehoming process. They will not be given the potential adopter's address or phone number (it will be up to the adopter's discretion if they want to provide future updates with the former owner after the adoption is completed).
Keeping animals out of shelters through our "Direct Home Placement Program" helps donkey owners take part in finding a new home for their own donkey(s).
We believe that donkeys that have to be rehomed do best if they can be transitioned directly from their current home straight over to their new, loving owner's home thus avoiding the stress of staying at a shelter.
You would transfer ownership over to us Which will allow us to bring them up to date on their vaccinations, hoof trims and deworming (if they have fallen behind).
We will meticulously vet all of the potential adopters and forward the names and a little bit of background of those we've "approved" over to you.
You get to meet each of them personally, exchange questions and answers, watch them interact with your donkey(s) and then YOU will make the final decision as to whose home you feel good about handing your donkey over to.
Can't get any better than that. For more in
Odie enjoys wrestling with Jimmy. Jimmy can be very rough & tumble when he plays, but he tones it down quite a bit for Odie.
Odie enjoys wrestling with Jimmy. Jimmy is a rough & tumble kind of player, but he tones things down for Odie.
So Odie is being released tomorrow. We're not able to pick him up but our manager at the Healing Heart Spokane branch will be picking him up and keeping him there until we're able to go get him.
Doctor Regle said that they are going to try several pain maintenance medications that don't only address his feet but all over his body as he may be dealing more with arthritis than his hooves.
I asked about my plan to put him on a daily walk exercise routine and he said to encouraging him to walk but don't push him to walk. Let him walk at his own level and at his own pace.
Dr. Regle said it is clear to them that Odie has a will to live. He also has a very strong mind of his own and when he wants to do something or go somewhere he let's them know it (but he's not mean about it), he stays determined until he gets his way and he always got his way at the teaching hospital.
Dr. Regle has grown quite fond of Odie. He told my vet, Dr. Charlie, that he likes him A LOT.
The two vets are working out a pain management program together. Here's a video of Odie playing with Jimmy just prior to his trip to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
OUR DONKEY FACEBOOK BUSINESS PAGE HAS GROWN TO 4.7 THOUSAND FOLLOWERS!!
And we have YOU to thank. Help us get to 5 thousand followers 😃
Each time you LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, react with a POSITIVE EMOJI to one of my posts or photos, it helps us stay connected with you and it helps other people see it; which helps our non-profit grow! It shows you support Healing Hearts Donkey Shelter And Refuge and the work we're doing and that means the world to us.
Paulette Quiroga-Jacklin
Founder/Director
Healing Hearts Donkey Shelter And Refuge
Riverside, Washington
(509) 322-4995
FB: Healing Hearts Donkey Shelter And Refuge
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.hhdonkey.org
WA State DOR recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit EIN# 83-3176076
WA State Licensed: UBI# 604384310
Oh look, Jimmie's got the zoomies too! There must be something in the air. Could they, perhaps, be sensing that Spring is just around the bend?
“Until you have loved a donkey a part of your soul remains unawakened.”
