Trouble in Burrolandia: Donkey theft reported in México state

A battalion carnal rescue enactment successful México authorities reported the theft of respective donkeys and horses connected Monday.

Burrolandia México — located successful Otumba, México state — published an affectional video connected its Facebook leafage reporting that a spread was chopped successful a obstruction astatine the sanctuary and the culprits made distant with 3 burros and respective horses.

In the video, the parkland identified the missing burros arsenic Felipe, Julieta and Canelita, portion besides disclosing that a equine named Spirit was among the animals taken, according to the paper El Financiero.

Upon arriving astatine 7 a.m., employees discovered the spread successful the obstruction and instantly checked connected the animals, discovering that respective were missing.

The enactment asked México authorities Governor Delfina Gómez and section authorities for help, portion besides asking President Claudia Sheinbaum to crook the lawsuit implicit to national authorities.

“We don’t cognize if they took them … to butcher them oregon if they volition attraction for them properly,” the video stated, adding that they recovered trails of blood. “We are precise concerned, upset and successful tears.”

Both donkeys and horses were stolen successful the equine heist. (Burrolandia México A.C./Facebook)

Other carnal rescue organizations were speedy to instrumentality up the cause, calling connected the nationalist to assistance instrumentality the animals to the structure successful bully health.

The shelter, founded by Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) prof Michael Schuessler successful 2006, is location to much than 80 burros and besides features a taxable parkland wherever visitors tin assistance provender the animals. Many of the animals were abandoned, overworked oregon different abused earlier coming to the shelter.

The Burrolandia México task was established with the thought of providing a dignified beingness to donkeys, an iconic battalion carnal successful Mexico whose numbers person dwindled dramatically specified that it is sometimes considered an endangered species.

About 30 years ago, determination were 1.5 cardinal burros successful Mexico. Data from the nationalist statistic bureau INEGI indicates that determination are lone astir 250,000 burros today.

Though not autochthonal to Mexico, burros — which were domesticated astir 6,000 years agone by the Egyptians — were brought to the state by the Spanish soon aft the Conquest.

The hardy animals became indispensable successful farming, commercialized and mining. A burro tin transportation up to 90 kilograms successful weight, but intensive attraction is required to support animals that were antecedently mistreated successful bully health.

Burrolandia México is not unsocial among organizations devoted to rescuing battalion animals. Cuacolandia successful Puebla and Seres Libres successful Mexico City are different sanctuaries committed to protecting overworked donkeys and horses.

With reports from El Financiero and La Jornada