Perry, beloved donkey of Bol Park who served as the Donkey model for Shrek, dies at 30

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• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He’s making waffles in donkey heaven now.

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  DONKEY, NO! :(

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Laminitis is what they get from over eating sugary grass and being overweight…the owners should have had him on a dry lot rotation…dude would have been fine if the owners knew anything. This is like letting a diabetic eat cake and then wondering why their feet are falling off.

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  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not a equine person, but the article says he also had a condition that made a leg sore, causing him to (technical term) tripod. Wouldn’t that habitual 3-legged stance also cause overload of the remaining legs, similar to being overweight?

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sort of, but it’s almost guaranteed that this donkey foundered and the reason he was tri poding like that is because that legs coffin bone has gone through the frog, it’s basically if you had no skin/muscle over your heel bone, all of a horses weight is on that bone. It’s excruciatingly painful when it’s exposed. I’m a little annoyed at the owners in this article, because all of this would have been easily prevented by taking care of him and dry lotting him even for 1/2 the day, toss in hay, manage his weight. Even after he foundered they could have dry lotted him, put glue on shoes and have a bare foot farrier get his hoves back in order. They just let this poor guy suffer, probably for months if not years.

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  NOOOOO

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