Photo by Colin Nickerson
Hamilton the donkey suffered a close brush with death only hours after being born July 9. Through mishap, the quivering bundle of flesh, bone and spirit slipped from his mother’s womb into a filthy puddle at Arnold’s Rescue Center in Brownington, a sort of refuge or retirement home for down-on-their-luck critters. By the next dawn, the rare Baud du Poitou donkey was in ‘total sepsis’ — infected through and through. Hamilton was rushed 160 miles to the Myhre Equine Clinic and Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire. His death would have been a crusher for the veterinarians, researchers and animal rescue folk trying to revive the ancient line of Poitou donkeys. Hamilton is thought to be the first of the breed….
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