Miniature Donkey Rescue

Alpaca shearing festival to raise money for wildlife rehabilitation center ...

Sullivan, NY -- The alpacas at BMR Acres will get a haircut for a good cause today. Proceeds from the farm’s fourth annual Shearing Festival will support Divine Nature Wildlife Rehabilitation, a project started by owners Brian and Mary Ellen Rose about a year ago.

The couple first settled their 25-acre farm on Pine Ridge Road in the town of Sullivan with alpacas, miniature donkeys and a host of other livestock.

But a passion for helping injured animals and education led to the farm’s new calling. After receiving her wildlife rehabilitation license from the state Department of Environmental Conservation last year, Mary Ellen Rose began nursing dozens of local animals back to health in her basement, including muskrats, possums, rabbits and starlings.

An addition to a barn made room for the clinic and a classroom, where students and other visitors can learn about the animals in their own backyards. Local officials will be on hand for a ribbon-cutting at 9 a.m.

But the space is already more than filled with patients, and outdoor caging is needed for animals that can’t be released, Rose said. The facility’s tenants include Peet, a red-tailed hawk who cannot fly, and Lady Bird, a snowy owl who lost an eye in a collision with a car.

Rose treats her patients with the same love she gives her herd of alpacas.

Activities: Vendors, artisans and craft booths; Wanderers’ Rest Humane Association adoption event; representatives from Operation Wild Cats and K.A.R.E. (Kirkville Animal Rescue and Education), and Mary Gillen, Animal reiki instructor and healer; exotic animals from Out of the Cage Petmobile; live entertainment; games and crafts for kids; raffles; food and beverages; bottle and can collection to benefit wildlife rehabilitation. To get involved: To report an injured animal, call 1-877-855-4BMR. Donate supplies, including food, animal carriers, cages and medical supplies. The nonprofit needs everything from cotton balls and rubbing alcohol to incubators and X-ray equipment. Visit the farm’s country store, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. All proceeds are donated to wildlife rehabilitation efforts. Donations can be sent to Divine Nature at BMR Acres Inc. 2542 Pine Ridge Road, Canastota 13032.

During an afternoon feeding, she stops to tickle a young woodchuck, who follows her around like a puppy. She taught a crow named Charlie, who can no longer fly, to play notes on a child’s piano and handfeeds him blueberries.

Forever Home Donkey Rescue

This is an article about Smoke, the donkey from Iraq finally making the trip to the US.  One of the big sponsors was Big Ass Fans which also is involved with  Longhopes Donkey Shelter in Bennett, Colorado.  I talked to Kathy the director, not too long ago &  she had been contacted to see if she has someone that would be a friend for Smoke, which I'm sure she will do, no problem.   Yesterday was a fun day, although it got rather long before it was over.......!!!   Got up early to feed, so we could go over to Willcox to an open house for Healing Hearts Animal Rescue & Refuge.  WOW, do they have a lot of room.  Their pens are huge, most looked like an acre or more.  Wide open spaces, makes me envious, no mesquite limbs to run into.  They've only been out here for a few years, moved down from the Phoenix area, for more room for their farm animals.  The farm was a defunct ostrich farm, which I guess is why all the pens & shelters are so large.  They have 41 horses, llamas, goats, even John's favorite..............hogs........!!!  A couple of them were even larger than Nikki, the one that attacked John earlier this year. We got to see Last Chance & Missy Moo also.  About 4 years ago we were involved in their rescue, picking them up north of Tucson from a woman bringing them down from the Phoenix area.  They were very sick little veal calves she had saved from becoming veal, but had no way to take care of them.  I got in touch with Sybil that runs the Oasis Bird Sanctuary, who also was a nut for cows & she & the staff at the Oasis bottled raised them.  Last year Healing Hearts agreed to take them, & have Chance castrated, which he was long overdue to have......!!!   As the only cows,  they have a big pen all to themselves.  Met the livestock inspector for this area.  We hadn't had any dealings with them since we took in Trudy a few years ago, & had to have her euthanized.  He seemed real nice, I gave him a card in case he gets in some burros.  He said a year or so ago, they had quite a few show up from the Mexicans using them to bring drugs across the border.  They don't bother to take them back, they just turn them loose once the drugs are unloaded.   We had to rush home to feed early, so we could get the race car out to the track.

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