Readers help save donkeys

[pies4ever]

Readers help save donkeys
Adrian Tame
December 10, 2006

GOLDEN-HEARTED Sunday Herald Sun readers have donated $40,000 and tonnes of hay to save 250 donkeys at a rescue shelter from death row.

Last month, we revealed Dr May Dodd's battle against soaring feed costs of $1000 a week to save the donkeys.

Dr Dodd, of Diamond Creek, received her first phone call with an offer of help at 8am on the Sunday of the story. In the following week she was flooded with more phone calls and 250 letters, most of them enclosing cheques or offers of feed.

The biggest surprise came when a stranger called at Dr Dodd's donkey shelter and left a cheque for $10,000.

http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,20898732-2862,00.html

[Banquo's Ghost]

I'd like to see this generosity extended to other species too.

Alpacas are high on my list.

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

I hear Kevin Rudd was the stranger who tipped in the 10 grand.
The donkeys are apparently being groomed for Labor's new front bench

[HAL]

Who is saying Kevin Rudd was the stranger who tipped in the 10 grand ?

[David]

Aren't there enough people in the world that need charity right now?
$40 000 for donkeys... wow.
Having said that, it's a while since I've donated anything to charity... still if I had that kind of money I hope I'd spend it better.

[HAL]

Is this what you call a "word problem".

[~Madness~]

[HAL]

Is this what you call a "word problem".

[Banquo's Ghost]

[Proud Pies]

i remember my grandmother telling me that my Great Great Great Grandfather Moses was the first to bring donkeys into Australia

Don't know why I'm telling you all that either.

[HAL]

What do you remember about his or her grandmother telling him or her that his or her Great Great Great Grandfather Moses was the first to bring donkeys into Australia Don't know why he or she'm telling you that ?