Archive for September, 2010

Donkey defeats mountain lion, saves life - 14th September, 2010
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By PAUL WELLERSDICK-MediaNews Group Posted: 09/10/2010 12:17:29 AM PDT PARADISE — A Paradise donkey that’s a veteran of the Gold Nugget Days Donkey Derby may have saved a life this month, by scaring away a mountain lion that had attacked a goat the burro shares a pen with. Art and Joan Colyer were awakened from [...]


Save the donkey, save the world - 9th September, 2010
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Donkeys are used to transport supplies to                                  mountain villages                            Perhaps it is the fault of Eeyore, the manic-depressive donkey who would have benefited from a course of Prozac in AA Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh“, but the humble donkey has become a much-maligned animal. With an undeserved reputation for being stubborn and bad-tempered it is [...]