Many of you will remember Baby, a donkey born in 1993, who arrived at our Rifugio with the horse Sogno, who passed away in April 2018, from which she was inseparable. Our Baby is no longer with us since Tuesday afternoon, but we are sure that she is running free with herfriend Sogno.

The first signs of malaise occurred on Tuesday morning with inappetence, staggering and the incapacity to bear the quadrupedal station. The situation worsened in the afternoon and, accompanied on her last trip by our vet, she finally got rid of pain.

We were contacted by the end of summer by the editorial staff of "Dalla parte degli animali", a broadcast on Rete 4 hosted bythe Honorable Michela Vittoria Brambilla, to present our reality through three of our donkeys. We told the stories of Rucola, Soleand Costel, which can be sponsored, as evidence of our daily commitment to these wonderful animals and to involve an ever-increasing number of people in support of our work.

If we were to give a prize to the two most playful donkeys of the Rifugio, the winners would undoubtedly be Zenzero and Mirtillo.

It is with great sorrow, that we had to say goodbye to John Florio, blue collar of the exclusive adoption, for years one of our beloved donkey therapists.

Abandoned in the Romanian countryside, deeply marked in the body and mind, he was found hungry and with a deformed limb due to a previous fracture never cured. Welcomed to the Refuge in 2008, at the age of six, he immediately stood out for his strong and combative character, typical of those who decide to react to a difficult life.