Donkey, dogs, horses & cats

Cam drove me up the steep trek to J.E.E.P. this morning.  I cleaned the cat kennel and gave the three kennel cats their new beds.  They were happily rolling on them.  There are about 20 dogs at JEEP right now and about 20 loose cats.  JEEP volunteers were letting the donkey and eight month old foal loose in the big yard to give them exercise and also to get them used to the dogs and the dogs used to them.  There were a few dogs that thought it might be a good idea to bark at them but that idea was quickly squashed by the humans.  When these animals go out into the regular world they will be trained to get along with each other.

The donkey was brought into JEEP a while ago because he wasn't being cared for and his hooves were long and grown under.  It is doing much better now and slow work on the hooves over time has nearly got them back in shape.

This is Junior.

Junior and his mother Sedona now belong to a young woman who has adopted them.  They are still kept at JEEP.  Junior had to check out everything going on.  Sniffing the cat beds I was carrying, ready to whirl and speed away should they leap at him.  After a good sniff and a bit of a rub with one he decided they weren't so bad after all.

Sleepy in the sun.  Life is better.

One of the ladies who volunteers here rides into the mountains.  She said that this is the first year that she has ridden through the area and not seen any animals who were mistreated.  Perhaps things are getting better.