Dear friends, today the Income Revenue Agency has remitted 35.986,34€ gathered thanks to your choices in 2013 Tax Declaration.

We wish to send a collective thank you to 1485 Italian taxpayers who have chosen to donate an amount of their taxes to our Rifugio.

With the gathered amount we will be able to cover costs for vet cares, vaccinations and examinations for over 140 donkeys, mules and hinnies we are currently taking care of.

That's why 5X1000 means so much to us and why we will never stop thanking you for your support!

We all know than donkeys bray, but ours love to tweet too!

Or at least they do on Twitter, the online social network where users can send and read 140-character messages called "tweets".

Yesterday our Twitter account reached 3,000 followers: this means that more and more people Worldwide know what we do and support us.

Good reasons to celebrate, aren't they?

We've scored another important goal after our sixth birthday.

In the last days our official Facebook page reached 130,000 fans!

Many of you heard of us first on Social Media (we're on Twittertoo), and often from this first virtual knowledge you've become ambassadors and supporters in real life.

The Prealps around Biella were his home: up and down the paths, Moro used to look after the flock and carry on his comfy back the lambs which were too small and weak to follow their mothers on the way to the pasture.

Hikers stopped to look at him before leaving with a picture and a smile.

Moro’s job was never too hard and vet and farrier checks were not missing, as well as moments of fame: every Christmas, he was an actor of the living nativity scene in Trivero, so calm and sweet, with his long reddish hair tickling the little child.

For all August Il Rifugio degli Asinelli will be regularly open from 10 am to 6.30 pm.

Leaflets are available near the InfoPoint; across our shelter you will find boards and other infos.

If you're planning your first visit to our Rifugio, please have a look at our "Visit us" section, you will find everything you need to know to enjoy your time with the donkeys!