{"id":122910,"date":"2023-12-18T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=122910"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:39:19","slug":"donkey-could-die-of-broken-heart-after-its-stolen-to-be-prop-in-nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/donkey-could-die-of-broken-heart-after-its-stolen-to-be-prop-in-nativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey ‘could die of broken heart’ after it’s ‘stolen to be prop in nativity’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A four-year-old girl has sent a letter to Santa asking him if he can help reunite her with her donkey, which was stolen from a field. <\/p>\n

    Bella and her family fear former Blackpool beach donkey Winston, 20, was taken to be used as a prop in a Christmas nativity scene. Mum Amy Doran, 39, says they are all "absolutely devastated" by the theft.<\/p>\n

    Amy, of Llandeilo, Carmarthens, said: "What the person who's stolen him probably doesn't realise is that donkeys can die from separation, they can die from a broken heart. They don't realise the after-effects. I don't care if somebody dumps him in a field. All I care about is getting him back."<\/p>\n

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    Amy said her two daughers \u2013 Bella, four, and Grace, three \u2013 were "absolutely devastated" at the news Winston had been taken. Bella even wrote a letter to Father Christmas in a bid to get the beloved pet back.<\/p>\n

    "Dear Santa, this Christmas please bring my donkey home," she wrote. "Very trusting" and "elderly" Winston was taken on December 9.<\/p>\n

    The sad news comes after a donkey sanctuary in Devon claimed it had taken in some 72 animals in one day. A whopping 20 of the mares involved in the huge rescue operation were pregnant at the time they were saved from a farm in Wales where they were being kept in poor living conditions, the Devon-based Donkey Sanctuary revealed.<\/p>\n

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