A good question!!! They are doing OK !!! They have passed a cold winter, but now that the sun is here, the summer is almost there, so the worst is over!! As said before Hebe comes regularly to have a look in the stable to see how Yucca is doing or does she have other [...]
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It is almost time!! The equine dentist & farrier will be arriving this Friday, as will our other volunteers to help make this equine outreach another very successful week!! The schedule for the week of 21st till 26th April is as follows: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd ~ Lassithi plateau Monday 23rd ~ Rethymnon area [...]
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Weeks have passed again and unfortunately not a lot has changed in Yucca’s situation… There have been weeks when we needed to hoist her up twice a day, followed by that amazing week when this was only necessary in the morning As soon as she was up she went out into the sunshine, walked around, [...]
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Source: Nea Kriti ~ 14 March 2012 A lovely story published recently in the local paper about a donkey which fell down a well. The locals couldn’t get it out and decided they would bury it alive so they started throwing dirt into the hole. However, the donkey kept shaking the soil off and gradually [...]
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Time flies when you are having fun…or when you are just really busy!!! It wasn’t long after I took this nice picture of our three Golden Oldies…bums in the sunshine and happily munching away that things all changed! This winter the sunshine isn’t such a regular thing as we are usually used too…we are having the coldest [...]
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For all of you who can’t get enough of the nice pictures which go with this very worthwhile project, just love animals and/or Crete here are some more pics of ~ our volunteers…hardworking & relaxing once in a while as we have to keep them sweet ~ stunning views…as driving across Crete always gives amazing [...]
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Our Friday continues and we now continue to a completely new area, the district of Amariou in Rethymnon Province. We have some difficulty finding these villages, whose residents contacted us following our press release in Heraklion newspapers prior to the start of the Outreach week. With the help of the local village priest we find donkeys who are in [...]
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On Wednesday we make a nice early start on our way to the south and the Messara area but first a stop in Archanes to see a new donkey, rescued by a kind Greek lady and now having a lovely life amongst olive groves with a beautiful view to the bay of Heraklion. Both the feet [...]
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As it has already been almost 3 months ago that the Equine Outreach project took place (17 - 22 October 2011) and we will only now report to you about it we can just as well start the report in a different way than you are used to… So let us start by thanking Garry Draper [...]
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