Pumpkin

 

This web site is a story about a donkey called Pumpkin who has found so much needed love and care.

Pumpkin used to be a neglected donkey left on a grassy place (grass contains fructans, polymers of sugar fructose) all year round with only occasional hay and no regular hoof care. All this (and discovery of her insulin resistance condition later) resulted for her in painful laminitis (inflammation of the hooves caused by sugar) and founder (rotation of coffin bone caused by separation of coffin bone and hoof wall because of inflammated laminae).

And even after more than six years of my trying to do everything possible to help Pumpkin, her hooves are still far away from being perfect.

I hope that all this will change with devoted care and treatment. You can read more about this, and other issues, on my News page.