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Northshore October 2025
On a Sunday morning last fall, I took on a simple task: Lead Jasper by his reins through the woods as leaves crunch underfoot. Keep him focused. Breathe. Jasper is a four-year-old gray donkey, a rescue who arrived on the North Shore angry and bedraggled from a Texas kill shelter two years ago, and who is now more like a large dog, eating peppermint treats out of my hand. Jasper and a black miniature horse named Romeo, who now greets the elderly in nursing homes, were saved from a gruesome fate thanks to the Equine Rescue Network, an organization formed in 2009 here on the North Shore. The two animals now live—along with other twitch
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