Donkey Rescues: Meet Jack our newest rescued donkey at Shadow Ridge

"Remote from universal nature, and living by

complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys

the creature through the glass of his knowledge

and sees thereby a feather magnified and

the whole image in distortion. We patronize

them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate

of having taken form so far below ourselves.

And therein we err, and greatly err.

He is called Jack even though he is gelded. We will work on that name. He just arrived on July 30, 2006. In this picture his original rescuer had already put on 100 lbs on him. No one knows how old he is.

Rescue Donkey: 8-31-2006 Notice how his feet are.

This picture show how his feet are so long and straight up and down that his is about to roll over on his toes. Our farrier has started a series of corrections. This was very painful for him since he virtually had to learn to walk and get his tendons stretched out so he would be back on his heels. His coffin bones are also really turned from previous foundering.

I got him in February of this year. He was so weak they had to drag him to the trailer. He was living with too many animals in too small an area. We put at least 100lbs on him if not more. I really feel that if I had not gotten him that winter that he would have died. And the owners probably would have just attributed it to the fact that he was "old", not starved to death."

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His bad eye. He looks like a different donkey from this side. He is Totally Blind on that side. Pieces of the eye are coming out. He is very good about me inspecting it many times a day. He isn't in pain for now. Eventually we will have to have it removed. I put in a medication from the vet to help with infection. PS I don't think is 'good' eye is all that great for seeing either but he knows where his Alice is all the time. On occasion, he even gets a little 'studly'.

This picture and the one above of the eye was taken at his previous rescuer's. July 2006 Notice how his front feet were ready to 'break over'. His whole body was covered in scabs like he had been laying in fire ants. He took a long time to heal.

When he arrived, even his bray was hoarse and weak. Not any more! Begs as bad as the rest of the herd now! You Go Jack!!

Welcome to Our World....

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