Our prayers brayers were answered yesterday afternoon when we got word that the Town of Van Horn had announced the cancellation of Saturday’s donkey roping competition.
We’d like to express our gratitude to each and every one of you who played a part in making this happen. Thank you for your phone calls, emails, blog posts, letters and brayers. They worked! ♥
If you have a moment today, please join Patrick in thanking the people of Van Horn, Texas for making the right decision.
Editor, The Van Horn Advocate: Larry Simpson – lsimpson@vanhornadvocate.com
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“He can live without man. But man can scarcely do without the labour, the sacrifice, the suffering of the donkey… that has accompanied man since the dawn of time, in all weathers, humbly and patiently serving the most brutal of all animals.”
~P.A. Vieira, ‘Our Brother the Donkey’, in Kinship with Animals, ed. K. Solisti and M. Tobias (San Francisco, CA, 2006), p. 134.

June 20, 2012 at 4:25 am
GREAT JOB DONE BY ALL
June 20, 2012 at 5:01 am
YESSS, YESSS, YESSSS!!!!! I just wrote them to thank them for the right decision. Good news are so rare! Yippee for all of us who acted! Thanks Morning Bray!!!
June 20, 2012 at 5:30 am
Reblogged this on Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors.
June 20, 2012 at 5:50 am
Well done comrades! Let’s send those thanks!
June 20, 2012 at 6:16 am
Will your gang be joing the 7MSN gang for celebration of beer and watermelon? Best news I have heard all week eh!
June 20, 2012 at 7:08 am
Theresa,
Absolutely, yes! We like beer and watermelon here for sure! (Beer for us and watermelon for the Boyz and Gracie.)
June 20, 2012 at 6:32 am
HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful.
with tears, Vicki
June 20, 2012 at 7:06 am
Hope the donks will be ok… but certainly a success! Woo Hoo!
June 20, 2012 at 7:23 am
Just sent a Thank You e-mail to all.
The real THANKS goes to you and 7MSN! So amazing.
June 20, 2012 at 7:34 am
Justina, now is the time for thanks to those that you have listed as well high fives all round for everyone who did anything that helped in making this happen. I already told Carson that a caped crusaders costume is in the works. How could it not be? I think Patrick is a fine “poster” child but he needs a distinctive super hero cape and so it shall be.
This is so wonderful. I haven’t stopped crying in a week and today is no exception…..only this time it is tears of joy.
xoxo Oma Linda
June 20, 2012 at 7:52 am
What wonderful news, what a great start to the day! Thanks to you and MSN for being change-agents in an all-too-often inhumane world.
June 20, 2012 at 8:18 am
Wonderful news, put me on cloud 9. It is wonderful to be part of a process that stops an unnecessary and harmless event and makes for a better future for the donkeys. This one is for Patrick!
Thank you Carson, Justina, and Don for leading this effort!
June 20, 2012 at 8:27 am
Hoo-bray!
Will thank the people of Van Horn, TX…but we need to keep the pressure on for anyone else out there who thinks donkey roping is a sport.
June 20, 2012 at 8:33 am
I have stolen Patrick’s thank-you pic from this post to reblog. I will, of course, take it down if you’d rather I did?
June 20, 2012 at 10:00 am
Vicki,
Perfectly okay.
xo
June 20, 2012 at 8:58 am
Justina, Don and Carson….you all ROCK! Congratulations on your fantastic victory. What a great day to be alive!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
June 20, 2012 at 9:20 am
Happy Dance all the way up here in Canada!
June 20, 2012 at 9:43 am
I have sent thank you emails also. This is a very good thing.
June 20, 2012 at 9:49 am
This is the wonderful news — but we’re not done!!
Please let us know how to support Mark Myers in the transporting and safe keeping of these gentle donkeys. Any way of documenting, blogging, step by step the transportation of the donkeys to their new home and then all these fantastic bloggers and others donating to their upkeep???
June 20, 2012 at 10:05 am
An awesome achievement by all!! Can’t wait to see the super hero capes.
June 20, 2012 at 11:34 am
I will definitely send thank you emails this evening to the folks in Van Horn. You all are amazing people and I thank all of you for doing great work.
June 20, 2012 at 12:37 pm
This is wonderful news! I’ve just sent thank you’s to the 2 people I had emailed earlier this week.
June 20, 2012 at 3:39 pm
That’s wonderful news!! I’m so glad they cancelled the roping competition! I’m going to send thank you emails right now
June 20, 2012 at 5:44 pm
E-mails sent, Patrick. Thanks Justina and Don for your efforts. Sweet feelings come from small victories. Pretty amazing. Bray Team Donkey!!
June 21, 2012 at 3:29 pm
I just nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award!!! Congratulations:) Here is my link to the award post….
http://hotrodcowgirl.com/2012/06/21/one-lovely-blog-award-times-three/
July 1, 2012 at 9:53 pm
This is GREAT news. It has made my day!!!