{"id":313737,"date":"2025-12-13T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313737\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:49:07","slug":"i-was-petrified-of-donkeys-now-i-help-save-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313737\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was petrified of donkeys, now I help save them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After establishing a more permanent residence in Menorca in 2020, the Covid lockdown began within days of their arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the restrictions were lifted, Jane and Dennis found Menorca Donkey Rescue, a self-funded charity, nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dennis, 59, said the volunteers were struggling, which led to him and his wife asking if they could help promote the sanctuary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, they felt &#8220;drawn in&#8221; and volunteer there every summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They help the lady who owns the sanctuary, Gundi Grass, by feeding 17 donkeys and making sure they are well cared for whilst she works full-time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After establishing a more permanent residence in Menorca in 2020, the Covid lockdown began within days of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-313737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}