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Victoria
Olavarria and Jacob who come
from New York State, visited the Sanctuary and said what a good job
we do. They then decided to adopt Grandpa, one of
oldest and best loved donkeys. Grandpa knows how to make
friends with all the visitors.
July 17, 2006 - 2007
November
4th was a sad day for everyone who loved Grandpa (and who didn't?)
He was found dead in the bushes. We think he was about 40 years old
and died from old age.
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adoption of Tu Tu was a present for Eddy Tromp, given by his sister. Eddy is very happy with his
present and visits Tu Tu once in awhile accompanied by his mother and
sister.
adoption period : November 29,
2003 - 2004
The adoption is to be
continued! Thank you very much.
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Hans
Kirchhoff
from Smile
Residence in Sweden wanted to name a donkey and adopt him for the
rest of his life.
Mikie
2 is his name!
Mikie 2 is a very friendly donkey who resently joined the more than 60
donkeys we already take care of.
Adoption
started February 10, 2008
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Grandpa and One Eye have been adopted by a mother-daughter team.
Mom, Mindy Ulery-Schumann, and daughter, Lyndy, live at Tierra del Sol
when they are on Aruba which is a lot. Lyndy plans to volunteer
as a summer camp project. Mindy just fell in love with the
donkeys. November 4th was
a sad day for everyone who loved Grandpa (and who didn't?) He was
found dead in the bushes. We think he was about 40 years old and died
from old age. Instead of Grandpa Lyndy adopted Negrita
December 27, 2005 - 2008
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On
their first visit to Aruba Claudia
surprised her husband Nader
Bakhitiary
with the adoption of a donkey
for his birthday. She chose Rason.
Rason is a very shy donkey who showed up at the sanctuary one day.
adoption
april 3th, 2006 - 2007
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One
Eye is the grey donkey with her ears in her neck.......
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One Eye is
being adopted by Bam de Jong and Desiree
Schouw from the Netherlands. They visited the Sanctuary and
spent a long time enjoying all of our cute donkeys. Ban works
for the Animal Ambulance service in Gouda, Holland. Obviously
they love animals.
Adoption October
16, 2007 - 2008
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and Rod Lema
who adopted Pica, had to
chose a new donkey. Pica died last October when he broke is bad leg
again.
They
choose the future leader of the group Bono! Even though he is
only 7 months old. It looks like he is already in charge.
Adoption
period: February 9,
2008 - 2009
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Melissa
and Nicole Katkin of Staten Island New York
adopted "Dushi". They feels we are doing a very
good
job of preserving the Aruban donkey.
They
met Dushi when he was a week old!
Adoption
August 24, 2007 - 2008
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Grade 3 from the International
School of Aruba spent the morning at the Sanctuary learning about
the donkeys and helping to clean the area the donkeys live in.
They were a very curious group asking a lot of
very good questions. They raised money through bake sales to
adopt a donkey for a year. They checked out each donkey and
decided to adopt Blanca. Blanca is a
very ladylike and quiet donkey. She loved all the attention the
students gave her before they went back to class.
June 2007 -2008
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who is our intern working on our 10th anniversary projects, has been
writing home about the Sancturary. Her mom, Soekira Mentowidjojo,
and her co-workers at Rijnland
Hospital, dept. KVA/6A, decided to adopt one of our donkeys
after hearing all the stories. Her mom came to Aruba and picked Sassy
to be their donkey.
May
9, 2006 - 2007
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Naomi
Muller is back on the island after living for several years in the
Netherlands. Until she starts her new job here, she is coming to learn
about our volunteer work and plans to volunteer once a month on
weekends. She decided to adopt Jolly Jumper starting February
6th, 2005.
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Another adoption for the new baby. Bob,
Stien, Angela and Sasja, who are co-workers at Hans Weeren
Schoonmaakspecialisten in the Netherlands will pick a first name for
the baby. Bob visited Aruba last summer and said he wanted to
get his co-worked enthusiastic about adopting one of our donkeys.
They have talked about it for quite awhile and finally a decision was
made. The baby will be named Bono
July 17, 2007 - July 17, 2008
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An
animal protection foundation, Dierenbescherming,
in the Netherlands has adopted Tio
Mexico. We had asked the foundation for a donation
and they decided to adopt one of our donkeys. Tio Mexico came to
the sanctuary in February 2004. He had a stroke and his fact is
partially paralized on one side. However he is a very active
donkey and does not allow the other donkeys to push him around.
adoption
March 22, 2006 - 2007
The
adoption is to be continued.
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On
Friday, March 4th, Jana and Alan Poulton from Michigan USA came
out to the Sanctuary. This was their first trip to Aruba. They
fell in love with our newest addition, Blackie. Blackie is
approximately seven months old and was rescued by the Kelly family in
Alto Vista. The Kelly's feed some of the wild donkeys and
Blackie came to them with a broken leg. Blackie had his leg operated
on again. We thought that it was going to be amputated.
However, when we came to pick him up, the Vet had been able to save
his leg and put it into external traction. He is still at the clinic
recovering and seems to be doing very well. He is trying to put some
weight on the leg and is starting to be a frisky little boy by opening
the gates of the sick or blind dogs. Everyone at the clinic
loves him.
adoption
runs from march 4, 2005 - 2009
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Pat
& Art Weiss, long time visitors to Aruba, renewed their
adoption
of Kromoor (Crooked Ear) for the 3rd year. While here they made several
visits to the
Sanctuary, bringing their son and daughter so they could meet their adopted brother. Pat enjoys wearing the blue Sanctuary T-shirt.
adoption began in February 2004
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Once
bitten by the bug of owing donkeys, they could not resist an Aruban
donkey: Patricia and David Kennedy from the US are long-standing
repeat-guests to the island. Sasha was their choice. Sasha is
Sashi’s daughter and mom of Andrew and Jolly Jumper.
This
adoption is a continuing story.... Sasha
is very happy with her adoption parents.
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One of our
newest volunteers, Jean Patey, was at the sanctuary shortly
after a new very young donkey arrived. She fell in love with Storm
who loves to nuzzle you and follow you around. She has decided
to
adopt her. This is one of the advantages of being a volunteer.
You get to meet all the new donkeys, whether brought in or born at the
sanctuary, right away so you can bond with them.
July 2007 -July 2008
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