Tag: donkeys
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Donkeys on a diet: Cripple Creek donkeys work to combat weight gain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just past the donkey stables in Cripple Creek, down a dirt road, there’s a wooden feed stand layered in signs. “Please NO carrots, NO apples, NO bananas, NO human food” the signs emphasize, with bright…
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Donkeys on a diet: Cripple Creek donkeys work to combat weight gain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CRIPPLE CREEK • Just past the donkey stables in Cripple Creek, down a dirt road, there’s a wooden feed stand layered in signs. “Please NO carrots, NO apples, NO bananas, NO human food” the signs emphasize, with bright images of the foods crossed out by…
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Donkeys on a diet: Cripple Creek donkeys work to combat weight gain
CRIPPLE CREEK • Just past the donkey stables in Cripple Creek, down a dirt road, there’s a wooden feed stand layered in signs. “Please NO carrots, NO apples, NO bananas, NO human food” the signs emphasize, with bright images of the foods crossed out by a red ban circle. Several visitors stop by, waiting to…
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Run burros, run: Cripple Creek to host 94th annual Donkey Derby Days this weekend
In the mountain town of Cripple Creek, about 9,500 feet high, a weekend of racing draws people from around the country. The race, completed in teams of three, isn’t really about speed or times. Often, teams struggle to get everyone across the finish line, with one member stopping for a tasty-looking patch of grass. This…
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Colorado’s ‘donkey matchmaker’: Rehabilitating burros with racing
DOUGLAS COUNTY • Out in the meadows of Lincoln Mountain Open Space, it’s quiet, save the sound of resident crickets. But if you wait, you’ll hear it. It’s not the rumbling of a stampede or the thundering of a herd, but more like the gentle tapping of a trot. “Hee yah!” “C’mon!” “Let’s go!” Runners…
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Rehabilitating burros with racing
Amber Wann, founder of ReDONKulous Ranch Sanctuary and Rescue, rehabilitates donkeys by pairing them with human runners to train for pack burro races, fostering both the animals’ physical health and emotional well-being. Pack burro racing, Colorado’s official summer heritage sport, began in 1949 to honor the donkeys’ role in the state’s mining history.
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Donkey Derby Days to celebrate 93rd year this weekend
Release the beasts! It’s once again time for donkeys to gallop (or aimlessly wander) along Bennett Avenue — and this year, there will be two days of burro races. Cripple Creek’s 93rd annual Donkey Derby Days will kick off Friday and last through Sunday. The historic celebration will feature more than 90 vendors, food trucks,…
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LIFE | This club cares for Cripple Creek’s famous donkeys
The Two Mile High Club, initially called the Mile High Club, was formed in 1931 when local business owners banded together to care for the free-roaming donkeys that had been freed from working in local mines. The donkeys now spend the winters in a pasture just outside of town, being cared for by the club…