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Perry, beloved donkey of Bol Park who served as the Donkey model for Shrek, dies at 30 (www.paloaltoonline.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Not a equine person, but the article says he also had a condition that made a leg sore, causing him to (technical term) tripod. Wouldn't that habitual 3-legged stance also cause overload of the remaining legs, similar to being overweight?

[–] SupraMario 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Sort of, but it's almost guaranteed that this donkey foundered and the reason he was tri poding like that is because that legs coffin bone has gone through the frog, it's basically if you had no skin/muscle over your heel bone, all of a horses weight is on that bone. It's excruciatingly painful when it's exposed. I'm a little annoyed at the owners in this article, because all of this would have been easily prevented by taking care of him and dry lotting him even for 1/2 the day, toss in hay, manage his weight. Even after he foundered they could have dry lotted him, put glue on shoes and have a bare foot farrier get his hoves back in order. They just let this poor guy suffer, probably for months if not years.