NEW "KID" AT THE RESCUE........!!

 At four years old he is just a kid, the only other ones here probably under the age of 10 are Cochise and Oscar.  Roper came in today, he had a tumor in his mouth that had been removed and that has returned and is growing quickly.  We will make an appointment at the equine clinic up in Gilbert next week and have it taken care of.  Hopefully it is just a cranky benign growth and not cancer.

We will also probably take BlackJack up with him.  For a few months BJ has been ouchy about being groomed he acts like it's painful internally.  The best guess was maybe ulcers, so we treated him and he even got Tums daily, which is one of his favorite treats.  Hopefully they can find out what the problem is he's still acting funny.    

BJ has been here since before there was a rescue, he was our first donkey, John bought him for my birthday about 24 years ago.  We got him a friend that had to be euthanized because of health problems.  We got 3 donkeys for free and they all had health problems, actually one of them was squirrelly and the guy's grandkids were afraid of him.  From that beginning we started actively looking for donkeys that weren't wanted and found out there were a lot of them out there.  

So here we are almost 25 years later, still looking for donkeys that need help.

Sorry about the rude ending to the video, but Beefy the mammoth was trying to eat John's supper we had brought from our lunch on the way home from picking up Roper.  I had set it on the bed cover of Suzanne's truck.  The donkeys were all so busy trying to see the new guy, I didn't worry about anyone bothering it.  Obviously Beefy can multitask, in the video he is the big black donkey.  In the 30 seconds from start to finish of the video, he visited with the new guy went around the back of the trailer and ended up between the trailer and the back of her truck, trying to snack on John's supper.  

A couple of days ago, when Mike was leaving after working on the electric for the office/store, he came in worried that the big black donkey would get sick, from dining on half of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  He had the windows down in his truck, and when he got out to open the gate, Beefy moved in to see what was in there.  I'm afraid he is taking over from Big Gus, Gus could reconnoiter a vehicle with the windows down faster that you could see the problem..........!!  LOL  We sure do miss Big Gus, he had the biggest personality and a real creative mind to go with it.  I guess Beefy spent time watching Big Gus cause so much excitement and is continuing the process, he never did things like this when Big Gus was alive he was too busy chasing the girls.  We thought it would be quieter around here with Gus gone, but guess not..............!!!  Because Beefy got half of a tasty P&B sandwich as payment for his efforts I'm sure he will continue raiding vehicles when he can.

This is Roper going into his pen next door to Jasper this afternoon.  They've already touched noses and neither seemed interested in being aggressive.   We'll give Roper a day or two in his pen to get acclimated to a new home and nosy neighbors and then let him out to roam.