We chose a pink jenny and named her "Chantilly Lady" (Tilly for short). She soon gave birth to a sweet little jack foal that we named "Tilly’s Tumbleweed". That was it. We were hooked for life. We lived in the foothills of the Black Mountains that border Las Vegas, NV on the south side and had very few neighbors and could just open our gate and have free access to the mountains. We rode our horses constantly and our burros always went along. We never used lead ropes on them or anything. They just always followed along. We never trained them to do anything special or expected them to do anything. They were strictly pets.

After many, many job-related moves in between, we finally came to FL in 1993 and were able to stay. We now have the place of our dreams and a permanent home for our donkeys. Ours is a family operation where all help in every aspect of the farm. All our stock is family friendly and our babies are all handled by everyone from birth. We have quite a few rescued or adopted donkeys that will be permanent residents at our farm. Their stories are on the "Current Residents" page on this site.

We love to see what we can teach our donkeys to do next. We have rehabilitated many abused and/or neglected donkeys and made them into friendly, loving family additions that pull carts, do tricks or are trained to saddle.

Whether you are already "hooked" on donkeys or "just looking" we love to share our longears and thus the reason for this site. Browse, read, and share with us. But most of all….enjoy!

MAY ALL YOUR DAYS BE DONKEY DAYS

FULL OF PATIENCE, AFFECTION AND UNDERSTANDING