Interested in meeting the real-life miniature donkey who modeled Eddie Murphy’s character in “Shrek”?
How complex are the personalities of donkeys? Find out by going to Palo Alto’s Cornelis Bol Park and visiting Perry, a miniature Jerusalem donkey who –“He is very feisty, quite opinionated and holds grudges, if he gets mad at you. It will be a while before he pays attention to you again,” says Jenny Kiratli, lead handler for the Barron Park Donkey Project. “But then he’ll get over it – he’s very sweet and lets me pet him now.
Those who value this kind of exclusive animal insight are lucky to live in the Bay Area, where close-up interactions abound from sheep to bunnies to goats to, uh, crabs. Here are five such places to get personal with animals.The donkeys at this small park reside in a pasture along the bike path. Visitors can’t enter the pasture but the donkeys are “very pet-able, if they are at the gate,” says Kiratli.
Aside from Perry, there’s Buddy. The two have a sort of “Odd Couple” rivalry going on, with challenges to alpha-maleness that occasionally get physical. But in their hearts they’re good eggs. Buddy is “very sweet” and “pretty easygoing,” Kiratli says. On Sundays between 10 and 11 a.m., handlers walk the donkeys around the park and stop at the play structure. And at 5 p.m. on those days, the donkeys are fed at their gate, and you can hear donkey facts and stories about their lives and help hold their food bowl.
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