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What do plastic shoes, treacle sandwiches and infra-red lamps have in common?

Surprisingly, we use them all here at The Donkey Sanctuary to make life more comfortable for our rescued donkeys.

Donkeys just like Bonny, who came to the sanctuary in 1995 after her owners moved to a smaller property and no longer had the space for Bonny and her companions. Bonny’s caring owners decided to relinquish her into the care of The Donkey Sanctuary and she came to live at Axnoller Farm, one of our outlying farms in Dorset, where we gave her sanctuary for life.

That was 12 years ago when Bonny was 18 years old. Since then, she has enjoyed the best possible care imaginable- good pasture, warm shelter and regular, routine veterinary attention.

Now that she is getting on, Bonny needs a bit of specialist help. She needs special high fibre feed to help keep her in tiptop condition. This also helps to ensure that she does not lose weight, or put weight on as she has a particular liking for ginger nuts and freshly grated carrot!

She has been fitted with special plastic shoes to make her feet more comfortable; these need to be replaced every four weeks. In preparation for winter, her barn will be fitted with infra-red lamps; these provide a great source of warmth during cold winter nights and are a help to donkeys with arthritis and other age related conditions.

And the treacle sandwiches?

Well, how else are you going to disguise unpalatable medicine? Bonny has medicine a sandwich every day containing an anti-inflammatory tablet to help make her feet more comfortable.

On behalf of all the donkeys here at the Sanctuary, a huge thank you.