Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc
Our Featured Pet...
Holiday
She is a tall, good-looking brown jennet who stands at almost 13 hands. Holiday arrived at Longhopes more than two years ago with bad hooves and a frightened temperment. All that has changed. She is now a gentle, affectionate jennet.
Holiday is a special needs donkey who would prefer to be adopted as a pasture pet with another jennet at Longhopes.
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What is E .A. R. S. ?
"Education and Rehabilitation Sponsor"
E.A.R.S. is a guardianship program for donkeys that may have special needs or require training or rehabilitation before they will be suitable for adoption. You can be the one to ensure a bright future for such a donkey by serving as the sponsor.
Be a sponsor for $30 per month, or share sponsorship for a donkey at a cost of $15 per month. Please click on the e-mail button below to contact us if you are interested in providing sponsorship for one of our special donkeys.
Sponsor will receive a framed certificate of sponsorship, public posting of sponsorship at Longhopes' barn, other gifts, regular updates and special visitation rights with the sponsored donkey.
Read about some of our "Happy Tails" at http://www.longhopes.org/donkeyTails.html
Donations are GREATLY appreciated! All donations are tax deductible.
Who We Are
Our Shelter, located in Bennett, Colorado, is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization dedicated to the rescue, shelter, rehabilitation, and adoption of standard donkeys. Our goal is to provide permanent homes for donkeys that would otherwise be neglected, abused, or sold for slaughter. When a donkey arrives it is evaluated for physical and emotional health. After a period of adjustment and observation, healthy donkeys are available for adoption. Physically neglected donkeys are kept longer and those that are unsuitable for adoption due to age or illness will have a permanent home at the Shelter.
To reduce the number of homeless donkeys, we do not allow our donkeys to breed. Nor do we allow any jennet to be adopted for breeding. All jacks are castrated before leaving the Shelter. Applicants wanting a foal should consider adopting a weanling from the Bureau of Land Management. They also have many jennet donkeys for adoption that are in foal.
We accept donated donkeys from owners who wish to relinquish ownership for various reasons, such as the owner can no longer provide adequate care, or the owner is moving and can not take the donkey, etc. We ask for donations to defray the costs of caring for the donkeys. However, some of the donkeys are healthy and ready for immediate adoption.
In addition, many of the donkeys come to us from difficult circumstances. We believe that their next home should be a safe, peaceful environment that would include a lot of attention. We also believe donkeys are much happier and well adjusted when living with another of their own kind. Therefore, with rare exception, we only adopt donkeys in pairs (unless the adopter already has a donkey).
Since that time, the Shelter has been accredited by the American Sanctuary Association has .
Adopting a friend
Adoption Fee $375 per donkey ($450 for a weanling or miniature donkey) and $650 per pair of standard donkeys; $800 for miniature pair.
Some donkeys have a reduced adoption fee.
Sorry but we do not adopt outside the Rocky Mountain Region unless the adopter personally transports the donkey
Visits welcome by appointment. Closed Tuesday, Thursday.
Thank you.
To be considered all applicants must complete an application form and meet the following requirements:
- Applicant must provide a fenced pasture of at least 1 acre per equine and a clean corral;
- Applicant must provide a clean weather shelter, minimum for two donkeys is an 8' x 16' three-sided loafing shed;
- Applicant must provide donkey with good quality, non-moldy grass hay;
- Applicant must have the donkey's hooves trimmed at least four times per year;
- Applicant shall not use the donkey for roping;
- Applicant shall not use jennet (if applicable) for breeding;
- Applicant must provide donkey with a donkey companion (some exceptions allowed);
- Applicant must provide fresh, clean, unfrozen water;
- Applicant agrees to allow Longhopes to monitor the placement;
- Applicant agrees that Longhopes may retain title for up to one year from the adoption date and if if for any reason the adoption is deemed unsuccessful, Longhopes has the right to rescind the adoption, refund the adoption fee and return the donkeys to the Shelter.
- After title has been transferred Longhopes Donkey Shelter retains the "right of first refusal." In other words, the donkey is not to be sold, given away, or auctioned without affording Longhopes Donkey Shelter an opportunity to take the donkey back.
Our Adoption Questionnaire: http://www.longhopes.org/questionnaire.html
Come Visit Us!
Visitors are welome! Because the shelter is stricly run by volunteers, and there is not necessarily someone there at all times, please call or email for a good time to visit!
Visit our website for more info on who we are, training, and just about donkeys in general! www.longhopes.org
Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc
Bennett, CO 80102
Phone: (303) 644-5930
Email:
longhopes@earthlink.net
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