I woke just before 6 am with a start, and thought is she out? I surely do not need to add "our Rosie, the donkey"
I went to three windows to check different areas of the field and lawn, not a donkey in sight, phew!
I got back in to bed and Malc raised one bleary eye to say " well?" "No sign of any said I"
Then I sat up again and said "I am going out to check where they all are"
Malc groaned,
I switched the battery on the electric fence to off and walked along the field shouting their names as I went. As I got down to the second stable I saw them in the second adjoining field, but as you can guess only three were there. Then I heard very loud hee haws coming from the road, becoming louder and more desperate, " Mum, mum I am here"
Then I remembered last night before we went out for the evening we had made the second car in to a gate blocking the higher drive way entrance into the gite. We were worried Rosie might escape whilst we were out and she would be better kept in our grounds. But in effect what we had done is made it impossible for her to get back in.
Every night she must have been scrambling through a two stranded barbed wire fence from the field belonging to a neighbour, onto the road and then trotting back in for the morning, up to the house for her breakfast.
So I was in a quandary, the car was blocking her way back in, I had no car keys, what to do?
I bent back some branches on the hawthorn hedge and wedged my way in between the hedge and car. Rosie seeing it could be done, squeezed in the gap with me and we got stuck together, me with my back being pressed into a hawthorn hedge. We had a bit of a chat and Rosie pulled in her tummy and squeezed past, then waited for me to sort myself out. We walked back together to the morning feeding centre, the stable close to the house with donkey goodies concealed inside.
I fed the four and came back to relate the tale to Malc, who was too sleepy to realise the significence of her being outside on the road.
I now know where she is escaping from and steps can be taken.
Everywhere I go people ask "where are you moving to and second question will you take the donkeys?"
As we are not envisaging that the house will sell quickly, perhaps take a couple of years, we only know we will move somewhere in the area and in two years time will see if I can still manage the donkeys. Remember I love them to bits
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