Nerja Donkey Sanctuary News Archive 2008:
23rd September 08 - A very rainy day for the donkeys
12th September 08 - A spot of early lunch in the back field for two lucky donkeys
10th September 08 - Coach visits resume
After a summer break the regular coach trips from the Torremolinos area to Nerja and the donkey sanctuary are up and running again. Following a quiet summer our donkeys were very happy to see some more visitors.
2nd September 08 - New donkey newsletter available:
Read the Newsletter or go to www.donkeynewsletter.com to catch up on any older newsletters you may have missed. You can never have too much donkey related news
Why are our baby donkeys inspecting a statue? Find out at donkeynewsletter.com
The coolest place in Nerja - the mist in the picture below is our super cool air conditioning system that keeps visitors and our donkeys at least five degrees cooler than the currently sweltering August heat. Approved by our vets the misting system is loved by our rescued animals and our volunteers too.
Adoptions - You can now adopt Rubi online
13 horses rescued - Los Tejanos horseriding centre, near Frigiliana, have kindly provided accommodation for all 13! Find out more in our latest donkey newsletter.
27/05/08 Nursery school visits the donkeys - watch video
Update 08/08/08 The nursery school kids meeting the donkeys video is now the 2nd most popular (1219 views) of infonerja´s videos. Info Nerja is a popular newspaper and website viewed by locals, tourists and town councillors so if we could get the video to the top spot it could really help us. Thanks for watching the video and emailing the link on to your friends it really helps us out. We have been steadily climbing the rankings thanks to your help, I hope journalists notice how popular the video is! Of course you can see all our other videos on our youtube channel. You can read more about the school visit to the donkey sanctuary in June´s Soltalk article
12/05/08 Article in Sur newspaper (Spanish only at the moment)
Sur article on donkey sanctuary
24/04/08 WWOOF with us
We have had our first few WWOOFers over from a University course in Finland and our next visiting volunteers are all the way from Alice Springs, Australia. If you would like to help our donkeys by WWOOFing with us you can find out more at WWOOF ESPAÑA
14/04/08 Pablo our eco donkey (click image for more details)
10/04/08 More computer trouble
Just when we thought we were on top of things our computer has packed in completely. If anyone's got an old laptop lying around feel free to post it to us!!!!! We'd send a donkey courier but Pablo is busy with his eco-donkey work.
We are having to use internet cafes but we are of course still checking our emails regularly and adopting a donkey online is up and running as usual. We still aim to dispatch the adoption certificates within 24 hours and hopefully we'll be back online soon.
02/04/08 Newsletter
The latest newsletter is out and available on www.donkeynewsletter.com as a Word file or as a smaller PDF.
28/03/08 New Tshirt design
Our new tshirt design for 2008 features Connan our rare giant Andalucian donkey.
There's a new wallpaper of Connan on our wallpaper page and of course you can adopt Connan on our adopt a donkey page.
24/03/08 Apologies for lack of updates, normal service will shortly be resumed!
We have been rushed off our feet in the last few weeks with an incredible amount of rescue call outs. High winds, rain and storms caused damage in the sanctuary and we lost a large number of hay bales in the wet weather.
Thankfully the bad weather has now passed and Nerja is again bathed in warm sunshine which our donkeys and visitors out on holiday are appreciating. Mocarra and Petra are particularly pleased as they both like to sunbathe and they now have a nice new pen where they can sunbathe in peace and quiet away from those pesky baby donkeys.
01/03/08 Pablo our Eco Donkey
Pablo has been getting out and about on our environmentally friendly eco-donkey collection scheme. It's excellent exercise for our Pablo and our volunteers as they make regular collection trips down to one of Nerja's beautiful beaches.
Our ecodonkey collects leftover food and bread from the restaurants on the beach and returns them to the sanctuary where our rescued donkeys are eagerly awaiting the delivery. Anything our donkeys won't eat is recycled by our pot-bellied pigs. The final stage of this eco friendly scheme is completed when local farmers collect the manure and use it as fertiliser for their crops.
You can read more about our ecodonkeys in our Soltalk article.
29/02/08 New T-shirt design revealed here soon
23/02/08 Where is Pablo off to?
Story here and in www.soltalk.com magazine near you soon
19/02/08 New Donkey Desktop Wallpapers added
New wallpapers including Rambo taking a bath and Flash sticking his tongue out. Apologies for lack of updates. If anyone happens to work for Telefónica we need a phone line and internet!
05/02/08 New Donkey Rescued
He has been named El Capitan after the road on which he was walking around loose. Capitan was found early in the morning wandering on the road in Torre del Mar and our rescue team were soon alerted. On arrival at the donkey sanctuary he was placed immediately in isolation as with all new donkeys.
He is in his late twenties and has been poorly looked after. He was seen within an hour by our big animal vet and he is infested with skin mites so he will need to be washed for a minimum of 10 days. Here he is being checked over by one of the vets we use. In the photo Nico is checking to see if Capitan can chew properly as he has very few teeth.
01/02/08 Woody and Petra
29/01/08 Leo
Here's Leo just about to have a lovely roll on the ground (video on our youtube channel)
27/01/08 Connan and Paloma
Connan and Paloma greeting visitors at the donkey sanctuary
22/01/08 Mocarra
Mocarra with a feeding trough all to herself and her winter coat to keep her warm.
05/01/08 Article in Sur newspaper (Spanish)
04/01/08 Spring Cleaning already?
Our volunteers have started their spring cleaning early and have today filled a large skip with debris and broken fences (we're looking at you Bolera!) We hope the clear out will enable us to open up even more areas to visitors and animals alike.
01/01/08 Happy New Year
Happy New Year from all of us here at the Nerja Donkey Sanctuary. All the best for the new year and we look forward to seeing and hearing from you all.
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