Ms. Anning H. Smith Sr. from New Jersey wished to adopt one of our Aruban donkeys and name him after her husband: her eye was taken by Mikey, who will now be known as ‘Mikey Egon’. Mikey hasn’t been with us for long but already knows how pleasant it is to hang around the porch – sociable and sometimes delicious! the adoption is to be continued. Thank you very much Ms Anning Smith!
The adoption is renewed with another year till march 2009. Thank you!
Jose Palomino, who changed places with his wife as a volunteer, has decided to adopt Negrita. This was a very logical choice as he was on duty May 29th when Negrita into the world. It is very nice to have such enthousiastic volunteers!
Five years ago Steven Trigilio & Frank Reynolds from New Jersey adopted Rason for their friend Suzanne Thompson. They have renewed this gift every year and Rason is happy to have Suzanne as his adoptive Mom.
The Doorenbos', Jacqueline and Huib, are the neighbors to the donkey sanctuary. They love animals and have two street dogs named after two of the 101 Dalmatians, Patch and Pongo. They love living next to the Sanctuary and wanted to know if we had a donkey named after a Disney character. Of course, we have Bambi so they deiced to adopt him on an ongoing basis.
However Bambi had to be put to sleep. Bambi came to us in September 2006. He had a birth defect, scliosis (a curvature of the spine). As he grew and got older his back became worse and he was having trouble walking. It was not going to get better so the difficult decision was made to let him go to donkey heaven. We will all miss him as will his devoted friend and protector, Lucky.Jacqueline and Huib continued to support us by adopting Kodak instead of Bambi.
Baccha will undergo a name-change: his new name is Freezone. The donkey will be the mascot of the kids and will be dressed in green and grey from now on. A filly-sized halter will be custom- made anyway, so why not in the colors of the baseball team. Freezone’s new favorite sport is, of course, baseball.
Freezone is adopted by Free Zone Aruba since June 17, 2004
Thank you very much
Take Route 4a from the hotels and follow this road for 14 km, pass all the circles/roundabouts until you see a sign for the French Men’s Pass. Make a left turn onto the French Men’s Pass, then 1st left, 2nd right. On that dirt road you will find the Donkey Sanctuary after about 200 meters.
If you have a GPS device, navigate to these coordinates:  N 12°48.974’  W 069°96.642’  This will bring you to the entrance of the Donkey Sanctuary.
Or use Google Maps Directions
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