Did you see this? Poor little donkey :-) I saw in on my yahoo this morn.
Back to Story - HelpFirefighters save donkey trapped in well Fri Sep 14, 9:36 PM ET
A donkey is happily eating grass again after falling down a dry, abandoned
well and being freed in an intensive rescue effort. It appeared that the
animal wandered away from its farm and onto some boards covering the well,
which broke, said Bruce Huseth, fire chief in this western Minnesota town.
Firefighters quickly realized that the animal, which belongs to farmer
Warren Gundberg, couldn't just be pulled from the abandoned well on Bryan
Nelson's land.
So they started pulling away earth with a tractor and dismantling the well
block by block Thursday. Once one wall had been taken apart, firefighters
put a harness around the donkey and guided it out with a rope.
"Whatever it takes," Nelson said as he watched his well come down. "I love
animals, and I'm just glad it's OK."
Gundberg admonished the animal after the rescue: "I bet you'll think twice
about doing that again. If you would have stayed home you wouldn't be in
this trouble."
Huseth said that he has rescued cows that have fallen through ice, but that
the donkey was a first.
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A donkey is happily eating grass again after falling down a dry, abandoned
well and being freed in an intensive rescue effort. It appeared that the
animal wandered away from its farm and onto some boards covering the well,
which broke, said Bruce Huseth, fire chief in this western Minnesota town.
Firefighters quickly realized that the animal, which belongs to farmer
Warren Gundberg, couldn't just be pulled from the abandoned well on Bryan
Nelson's land.
So they started pulling away earth with a tractor and dismantling the well
block by block Thursday. Once one wall had been taken apart, firefighters
put a harness around the donkey and guided it out with a rope.
"Whatever it takes," Nelson said as he watched his well come down. "I love
animals, and I'm just glad it's OK."
Gundberg admonished the animal after the rescue: "I bet you'll think twice
about doing that again. If you would have stayed home you wouldn't be in
this trouble."
Huseth said that he has rescued cows that have fallen through ice, but that
the donkey was a first.
Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information
contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten
or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated
Press.
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