It’s always interesting to see a donkey’s personality come out after they have arrived at the sanctuary and the staff at Vouni know all the donkeys well! Since we moved donkeys to our two Holding Bases, certain personalities seemed to have become even bigger.

It all started at the Sterako HB, our first one, when the owner of the property, Tommy, took his truck into one of the paddocks to do some work. He had been doing this for a while with no problem until the donkeys decided that when Tommy was out of the way they would try out the wiper blades! They managed to remove them quicker than any mechanic and trotted off around the field with Tommy in hot pursuit. After a few replacement wiper blades, this game became boring so the next thing to try were the wing mirrors!

Soon it was winter time and Tommy had several jumpers, gloves and a hat or two in his truck on the front seats. While he was cleaning out the barn, he turned around and noticed the truck doors were open. Thinking his partner Ina had left the doors open he went over only to notice that his clothes were missing and there were some rather large holes in the seat!!! The donkeys were having a whale of a time playing tug of war at the gallop with Tommy’s jumpers!!! Tommy only takes the truck into the paddocks if absolutely necessary and locks the doors.

Our vet has also adopted the same process after the donkeys pulled the spare wheel cover off. Again a tug of war ensued and eventually Tommy and our vet got the cover off of them which miraculously was intact. The only problem was that oval wheel covers don’t fit on round wheels do they!!