welcome to wild burro rescue

Dear Friend,
It may have come as a surprise to you that we have snow. Yes, we are in Southern California and we have very cold weather. The temperature can drop to 10 degrees and the wind gusts can reach up to100 miles per hour. It’s cold! We are asking you to help us purchase shelters for our burros. We need at least seven 24 by 24 foot shelters. They are made of metal to make them fireproof, termite-proof and burro-proof (burros do not like to chew on metal!) Without shelters, snow falls on the burros. The sun melts the snow and their fur gets really wet. Their fur will freeze and make them shiver. There is no way for the burros to dry. We would like to give each burro a blanket but the problem is many do not like to wear a blanket and they work hard to remove it. The older and weak ones suffer the most and most of our burros here are old. In the wild, the burros can move to places that are protected from the cold wind and snow. In our Sanctuary they cannot leave the corrals to find such a place. This is why the shelters are so important to have. Shelters protect them from the snow, rain, and wind and in the summer it provides shade. Each shelter costs around $5,000.00. This includes the grading and the digging and cementing of the foundation.

We are counting on our friends and supporters to help the burros to live in a safe place.
We do not have any financial reserves. Many times we are so financially broke that we are unable to pay for the hay and we have to ask the feed store to give us hay on credit until we get some donations from our friends. The same goes for the Veterinary Hospital.

The two things, of which we have a lot of at the Wild Burro Rescue are love and compassion. Please come and visit us, you can spend your vacation with us hugging and kissing burros. We promise, you will have a great time.

Your donation will help the burros. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization. Without your help we will be unable to continue, but we have to continue. Our burros have no other place to go. Who likes to take care of wild burros, besides Wild Burro Rescue?

You may be wondering about the progress of our well. We drilled and found water on our property. We still have to use our truck to move the water from the well to all our animals. The round trip to the well used to be 12 miles on a bumpy desert road, now it is much shorter and it takes much less time. This gives us more time to spend with the animals. Now we have to raise funds to build a pipe system to pump the water to all the corrals and to our house. We are happy that we’ve come this far. We know we can count on you to reach our essential goals.

There is one more way you can help. We need to spread the word that Wild Burro Rescue is in existence and let the world know about the great work we are doing. Send your friends an e-mail urging them to visit us at www.wildburrorescue.org. If you have a website you can put our website as a link. If your workplace has a website, try to get our website as a link. You can select and print literature from our website and hand them to friends. We do not have funds to purchase mailing lists and we do not have funds to hire professional fundraisers. Together we can spread the word that Wild Burro Rescue is a great place to visit in person or on the web.

For the Wild Burros, Always & Forever

Diana Chontos,
President / Founder