Trudi Hartnell at Paccombe Farm told me that the first delivery of duvets have arrived! Trudi will be sewing like crazy to make them suitable for the donkeys to wear under their rugs. As you can see from the picture she is delighted to be able to use the duvets to keep the donkeys warm.
Trudi Hartnell at Paccombe Farm told me that the first delivery of duvets have arrived! Trudi will be sewing like crazy to make them suitable for the donkeys to wear under their rugs. As you can see from the picture she is delighted to be able to use the duvets to keep the donkeys warm.
Macro in Exeter have been brilliant - the bedding team took a look in their store room to find all the single duvets they had in stock and yesterday afternoon Tony from our Stores department drove to Exeter to pick up 40 duvets - 20 for Paccombe Farm and 20 for Woods Farm. We have spent just over £600 on these duvets and Trudi will start work on them tomorrow.
Next week Trudi will be making a start on the rugs for Woods Farm to convert the duvets into under-rugs to help keep their elderly donkeys warm.
Dora, who is the donkey we launched our rug appeal with, is able to potter out into the paddock today as the weather is much better. It is still very windy here but she is snug and warm in her duvet rug.
On fine winter days the donkeys at Paccombe Farm are able to stretch their legs in the field and have a nibble at the grass.
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Milly, aged 25, was relinquished into our care in 1993. Doesn't she look very happy in her duvet and padded rug?
Moses, also aged 25, has been living at the Sanctuary for 20 years. He looks great and was very interested in Kate who came to take his picture today. I don’t know when I saw such “pricked ears” on a donkey!
I asked Claire Shapcott, who used to be a groom down at Brookfield Farm, before she started covering maternity leave in our Fundraising department, if she remembers Moses. This is was she said... "Oh bless him he looks so cute in his little duvet rug I just want to snuggle him! Yes I remember him he was a lovely friendly little donkey, really sweet. We sent him to Paccombe with his identical friend Muffin – they were in the same group at Brookfield and the only way you could tell them apart was by the markings on their hooves, used to cause havoc on weigh day trying to decide who was who if the scanner wasn’t working!"
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