This weekend we had great commotion at the Shelter and the two EE adopted donkeys, out of our lot, were under threat, as if by coincidence!
There is a donkey stallion outside the village, and occasionally, he and Gaiato (one of the EE adoptees, a rig) challenge each other vocally.
Well, this weekend the rascal got himself loose
, went across crop fields, knocked down fences and got into our field. He chased after our donkeys and injured emotionally and physically Rosa, my favourite and gentlest jenny (also EE second adoptee)
, as he tried to coax her violently and to submit her into being raped!...
Then he tried to mount Gaiato and to flatten him out too.
By this time, our farmer friend heard the noise, and he jumped out of bed. He came to the field and he kept wacking this donkey with a metal iron bar (especially around the… erm… aroused genitals…
), until he cornered him into the shed and was able to lock him. This may sound harsh, but a donkey in sheer vindiction and sexual arousement can be very dangerous...
Then Gaiato took this moment for revenge
and tried to mount him too, once he was tied...
The owner, a very unpleasant and threatening character, kept threatening us all once we informed him about the damages that his donkey stallion had caused, and he wouldn't collect his animal in a strop... eventually he sent his wife for the donkey...
After match: an injured jenny (he bit her across her fetlock joint, her usual sensitive leg and all
), now she is also mentally scarred (she was very shy of the others to begin with) :'(, and we are both feeling the strain of the last few weeks (chicken dirt, the illnesses, the lack of official support…).
All this happened on Saturday, early hours of the morning. Yesterday, Easter Sunday, soon as I got to the Shelter, I saw Rosa lieing down, as if dead, glazed eyes. She looked as if she had given up... I was in flouds... :'( Eventually she reacted to us and she raised her head. With great difficulty, Donkey Man and myself, managed to make her stand.
Then I treated her wounds.
Poor Rosa soon after the attack!... in fact, soon after enduring a rape attempt!
He bit her severely across the fetlock joint. In less than 24 hours, despite treating her wounds and giving her anti-inflammatory, her leg became infected and it felt very painful. We had to improvise giving her antibiotic, as our vet was away (Easter weekend…)
The culprit! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
To make things worse, yesterday we had been invited to attend a religious procession in a rural location that is performed every year on donkey back. I cannot say much about this as yet, but as a result, we may be getting a load of meat donkeys… If we get these donkeys, realistically we'll be in financial dire straits...
I'll be desperate for fund raising ideas, any form of international help. But ethically, how can we turn down animals lives??? :'( :'( :'(
