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Thunder was born August 30th. We ran a contest to name him and on October 4th the name was chosen. Thunder is very appropriate as we had been having a lot of thunder storms. Berkeley Bashaw from Virginia has been coming to Aruba for years and decided to adopt Thunder. She is happy to see the efforts being made to save the natural wild life.
Today we made a new picture of her and Thunder. Normally he doesn't want to be in the picture?
Sandra Croes saw the picture of Sonic and the story about him and adopted him. Sonic used to visit a riding school, made a lot of noise and disturbed the lessons so we brought him to the Sanctuary. He can make all the noise he wants at the Sanctuary.
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.
Our adoptive parents come from far and wide. Trude Johnsen & Trond Villassen are from Norway and visited the sanctuary in June 2010. They think we do a fantastic job and to show their support adopted Pirate who came to us in 2008 along with her mom and another donkey.
Pepsi also touched Raquel van der Weide with his story about his broken leg and all he has gone through to get better. She decided to help and adopted him.
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
