We want donkeys to live in loving families, where they are well taken care of and given the grace of dying with dignity surrounded by those that love them, not because of illnesses picked up at auction houses, traders lots or kill pen lots, and most certainly not in slaughterhouses.people have no idea what happens to donkeys when they go to auctions. Many believe that loving families are the ones who go to buy their donkeys and mules. Of course, there are those that don’t care, but they likely never loved them the way they deserved to be loved. Sadly, donkeys are seen as stubborn and a nuisance by many people. Even more have no idea how absolutely wonderful donkeys are until they meet them and become instantly in love and addicted.

But her future was about to change dramatically.

The very day she found Shaggy in that filthy kill pen auction, she knew immediately that there would always be room both on her farm and in her heart for rescue donkeys. That one crippled old gentleman changed her future with donkeys. Now she provides a much needed home for many discarded, abandoned and sometimes abused donkeys while they are rehabilitated and a new home is found for them. She also continues to raise her own herd of donkeys separate from TPDR, although they all live together with her on her Central Michigan farm.