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WE BELIEVE:

A healthy donkey needs the companionship of at least one other donkey.

Donkeys have an incomparable ability for rehabilitation and affection.

No donkey should be bred until all existing donkeys have homes. We must all be part of the solution to overpopulation of animals. No legitimate rescue should be breeding more equines and breeders should also rescue.

The lives we create lives we create lifetime responsibilities.

A "No-kill" shelter must provide humane euthanasia for animals suffering incurable pain.

The Longhopes Donkey Shelter was incorporated January 2000 but began in 1998 when the founder, Kathy Dean, went looking for her own donkeys. She knew there were unwanted donkeys needing homes but she was unable to find them, because unwanted donkeys are routinely sold for slaughter at local sale barns. Wanting to offer an alternative, Kathy learned that rescuing donkeys was impossible without a facility where the donkeys could be rehabiltated and trained until a new owner was found.

In August 1999 Kathy and her husband Alan Miller bought 20 acres in Bennett. That month Kathy took in Rocky, a 42 year old donkey whose owner could no longer keep him. By January 2000 Kathy had 9 donkeys. That was when Kathy decided to formalize her passion and create a shelter in Colorado just for donkeys.

Over the last 10 years the Shelter had rescued almost 400 and found homes for over 335. The average census at the shelter is 30 donkeys.