“At first we thought this would be a good way to teach our sons about responsibility,” laughs Mark.
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They sold their other businesses and moved from their LA County home to Kern County to pursue their passion full time. “We have a reverter clause that if people can no longer care for them they get returned to us and we find them a new home.”įive years later, Mark and Amy found a new home for themselves. “If you sell them, there are no rules for what happens to them, but if you adopt them you can set rules,” explains Mark. In 2000, a few years after adopting Izzy, they founded Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue (PVDR) to adopt out their beloved docile donkeys. That problem became their new life’s calling. We decided we’d better do something or we were going to have a big problem.” “So we started buying more and more and fixing them up until we had about 25 donkeys. “We stayed up every night to talk to him and by the end of a few months, he was just as friendly as Izzy,” Mark remembers fondly. Amy noticed one with a chest rubbed raw at a local store and the couple adopted the neglected animal, paying over $1,500 in veterinarian bills to bring him back to health. Not only did Izzy open their eyes to how friendly and loving donkeys can be, she opened their eyes to how many donkeys were out in the world suffering. They won’t do what you want them to unless they trust you.”
I once saw an idiot try to use a cattle prod on a donkey, the donkey turned around and bit the tip off! Donkeys are intelligent. “She was nothing at all like a horse, more like a big dog! Horses learn from pain, but donkeys don’t react to pain. “Izzy opened our eyes to a whole new world,” explained Mark. Mark and Amy with their first donkey, Izzy.
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