This is how it looked as I eased the truck out of the garage, just starting my three hour drive to Ridgecrest, Ca. I was hauling my ass out of bed early and heading 3 hours north to get to follow and learn from a fellow graduate of Megan Hensley’s Holistic Hooves Course. My friends John and Karen own and run California Breakfast Burritos, a donkey rescue and training center in Ridgecrest, California. They are dedicated donkey trainers, donkey racers and they are the Race Directors for one of the only donkey race’s in California; “Run With The Burros” in April. Right now their homestead has only a handful of donkey’s, but some of them needed routine trimming and care, so they invited me to come get some trimming hours and experience under John’s patient and careful tutelage. I jumped at the chance, as they have a variety of donkey’s. During Covid when farriers were scarce, John decided to just take care of his own critters….so he was one of the original graduates from Megan Hensley’s Holistic Hooves course…which I’m just finishing up. I’m of the opinion that if I ever want to trim donkey feet professionally, I need to gain experience and knowledge by doing, under the supervision of owner-experts like John. So I hopped in Lightning Mcqweeen and drove my happy ass to Ridgecrest, to trim hooves for the day. Here’s the rest in pics:
On this day I ended up spending about five hours with John and Karen, helping to trim four different donkey’s. I’m really thankful for the opportunity to work with someone I know has trimming experience and has gone through the same course as me, giving us common ground to work from. And I’m glad to be able to help out a bit at the rescue, learning by doing.
Wanna help out? Donations to California Breakfast Burritos go directly to the donks, as John and Karen do not take any salary from the donations. Make sure you tell them that LiveFree2TravelSlow sent you!