The donkey. A humble animal, who in history has helped humankind trudge belongings up mountains, appears in the bible and captures children’s hearts via the adorably dopey Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh tales.
Yet the donkey can also be a vilified creature, as you will read, pushed out of society’s realm of responsibility and consciousness, unless of course there’s a need for them.
There are currently 40 little donkeys in sunny Corfu, Greece who need a little help from kind people like us. This blog doesn’t often run calls for help, but this story really clutched at my heartstrings. In just a few days time, the Corfu Donkey Rescue shelter is to be ‘sealed’ and the forty resident donkeys thrown out on the streets until the sanctuary volunteers can sort out the new premises.
As one volunteer worded it, “The authorities seem to think I can just move the donkeys on to any piece of land offered and they can live happily tied to an olive tree. But they don’t seem to realise that these are very old, crippled and injured donkeys and five are blind. Many will surely die if I cannot give them the right conditions to live in. This shelter is no Donkey Hilton, but we are able to care for them here.”
If you can spare less than a minute of your cyber-surfing time, add your name to the petition and let’s get these donkeys a bit more time!
Image: Ebaumsworld / CC
