On this sunny morning, I took some super photographs and this short video clip of our Founder, Dr Elisabeth Svendsen, MBE meeting with the beautiful little nameless foal for the first time.

As you may know, we are running a competition to give this little chap a worthy name and the best photo I took will be framed and signed by Dr Svendsen as a prize for the lucky winner of the competition.

Today I met Catherine and Joanna, two newly graduated vets who are going out to help the working donkeys and horses of the Gambia. The reason they’re here at The Donkey Sanctuary this week is to have some specific training on dentistry and farriery for donkeys from our experts, before their six week veterinary mission begins.

Passing on our knowledge to Canadian donkeys today, I had the privilege of meeting and spending time with Kim Hayes, the new Operations Manager from a similar organisation to ours called The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada, which is based near Toronto in North America.

When I spend time with the donkeys, it’s often in the capacity of overseeing a film crew or taking a journalist on a tour of our Sanctuary (because I work in the PR Office) rather than hands-on care of the donkeys. So when the opportunity arose to groom a little donkey called Tommy during our recent Donkey Week, let me tell you... I made the most of it.

On Saturday, International Donkey Week took our wonderful supporters to Paccombe Farm which lies in the beautiful valley of Harcombe near Sidmouth. As it was my day off, I took my Senior PR Officer ‘hat’ off and thought I’d be a Donkey Weeker instead!

I love to get out and about during Donkey Week and especially meeting and chatting with our special ‘Donkey Weekers’. Anne and David, a super friendly couple from Eastbourne in East Sussex, were telling me that they enjoy the wonderful atmosphere and how being with the donkeys is the most relaxing of all; therapeutic even.