Posted on 08/26/2019 1:43:56 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Hillary the donkey is a castaway no longer.
The most famous donkey in Mariposa County was removed from her lonely 1-acre island in the middle of Lake McClure in an intricate operation that involved no fewer than 20 state wildlife biologists and veterinarians, a tranquilizer gun and a donkey trailer that came all the way from Texas to transport Hillary to donkey paradise.
It almost didn’t happen, however, donkeys being donkeys.
Hillary had been living on the small island for two years, ever since the lake waters rose and cut her off from the mainland. Local do-gooders had been dropping off hay bales and apples and Hillary had become a minor tourist attraction, but her continued isolation was deemed to be not in the animal’s best interest.
Shortly after sunrise on Friday, the small rescue posse organized by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife boarded a boat and sailed the half mile of lake water that separated the mainland from Hillary’s island.
Biologists had hoped that Hillary would voluntarily enter a small pen that the biologists had built on the island and baited with watermelon and food pellets. The biologists were intending to shut the pen by remote control, trapping Hillary inside.
...Leah Ray said it had been a long day, made even longer by Hillary’s unique personality.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Those plastic surgeons can work miracles these days.
” a tranquilizer gun and a donkey trailer that came all the way from Texas to transport Hillary”
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XD
I told you she was running again.
What the Donkey named after Sir Edmund Hillary or the Jackass?
Is Lajitas tired of having a goat for a mayor?
Be funny if she swims back.
Pox
Awesome
Funny and awesome
Poor thing, having such a name.
Noting the humor of your comment, but my guess is that 1 acre isn’t enough foraging for Hillary.
So basically a jackass is named after a jackass
Great improvement from how she looked in 2016. Has she stopped her coughing fits?
Looks more like AOC than Hillary, but hey, they are both asses.
Perfect.
She could have crossed back at any time.
Those animals swim just fine.
Others were trapped and swam, this one wouldn’t.
I regularly see mule deer swimming out to spend a quiet night on these small islands, safe from mountain lions.
Last year a guy caught a lion on video, swimming across the lake. So nature finds a way.
Maybe Hillary the donkey was happy there with her muslim donkey pal Huma......
She is now free to join the campaign trail.
That’s Chelsea Clinton.
I have a chicken who does not like the rest of the flock and goes out of her way to avoid them. I thought of culling her but she is an excellent layer even in winter.
I finally made her a separate space with a nesting box and she is much happier. It is going to be interesting to see what her daughters turn out like.
not fair to the island to leave it alone
let’s send another Hillary Ass there!
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