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Article: We're not Blue with our Poppy; Peterborough Heartwarming, eccentric and funny . . . it's the column that belongs entirely to you, the reader.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2003
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EARLIER this year I bought a retired beach donkey called Blue for my girlfriend, Kate, 28, and her daughter Olivia, two. I thought it would be a simple pet to keep.
But shortly after she came to live in a field near where we live, Blue gave birth to a baby donkey we called Poppy. Sadly, the stress of the birth after years of working on Blackpool beach was just too much for Blue. We spent more than [pounds sterling]1,000 on vet's bills in a bid to save her, but she died.
So I have now found myself as the adoptive parent, working round the clock to look after Poppy.
I have bought a caravan and set up a paddock so I can bottle-feed her every three ...