Caring

Sunday, December 31, 2023

This morning, Kate Beardsley will bring paperwork that lets me adopt Pimmy officially. About a dozen years ago, Kate helped deliver Pimmy here, and she convinced my very surprised and resistant self to keep the donkey. Kate always has considered Pimmy as an adoptee from her non-profit equine rescue, Mustangs to the Rescue. Now paperwork will make it official.

Appropriately, because my well-cared-for donkey could outlive me by many years. If ever we need outside assistance, Kate’s organization will arrange for Pimmy’s ongoing care and affection.

Meanwhile, I do manage to get medications into Pimmy. She dislikes them and argues, refusing to let me catch her in the open. But I can trap her inside the barn by feeding hay in there, and then, can give her meds. So far so good.

She’ll need medications daily for the rest of her life, meaning for another twenty years, or more. Healthy donkeys are tough, sturdy beasts, and can live for forty-some years.

Pimmy is very cool–a special critter. She loves her horses, and other than resisting meds, is easy to care for. I enjoy being her adopted mom.

Dear Friends: On this last day of 2023, a farewell to this interesting year. Diana