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	Name:	LadyLoveLake -
	Subject:	Goat Island - Eyeore (Donkey o
	Date:	9/24/2004 10:28:59 AM

Your information on Goat Island is WRONG. I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT ON LAKE MARTIN SINCE AGE 2. There have been many herds of goats put on the island over the last 50 years. 4 summers ago a "nameless" person put another herd of goats on the island and a donkey in hopes to keep stray dogs off the island when the water is down in the winter and chasing them in the water. (Goats apparently cannot swim) Well, it happened again. The donkey was not able to keep the dogs from chasing the goats in the WATER and/or killing them. So the donkey, whom I've named Eyeore (Winnie the Pooh) has been stranded out there for going on the 4th winter. We have been feeding him all winter long as well as summer. Many people feed him during the summer, but when the water goes down and the lake is freezing, no one but a few of us feed him. He gets 50 lbs of oats, a bale of hay, carrots, broccoli and other veggies and fruit per week at a cost of over $1,000 per week just from us, not counting the the few others who take him food periodically during the winter. My pontoon boat needs recovering terriblly, but I cannot keep it out of the water long enough to have it recovered and carpeted because my poor baby will starve. WE NEED HELP.

HE GETS NO VET CHECKS OR VACCINATIONS. I brush him weekly and try to keep fly salve on him in the summer. Brushing helps keep the ticks and mites off of him. Please no one give hiim too much sweet feed. It will give him colic and can kill him. I would love to get him off the island and in a pasture. Donkeys are personable animals and he gets so lonely out there. No more goats need to be put on the island unless someone can keep the dogs off the island.

I've been there and heard gun shots across from the island. I am afraid he will get shot. No one seems to want to help when its freezing cold. He is great fun in the summer for people to go and feed, but no one wants to take responsibility for him when its cold, bad weather, etc. We still do and have for the last 3 winters.

Please contact me. I would like for you to place an article in LML and help us get him the humane care he needs. We have pictures, etc. PLEASE HELP HIM NOT GO THROUGH ANOTHER WINTER ALONE. HE IS A VERY SWEET DONKEY AND SHOULD NOT BE TREATED THIS WAY.

PHONE: DAYTIME 334-353-7026. YOU HAVE MY E-MAIL. MY LAKE ADDRESS IS 706 LOVEJOY PLANTATION RD. - CASTAWAY ISLAND RD., ECLECTIC.

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