I’m Jana Appleyard and I live with my donkeys and cats on Hvar island, Croatia where I teach yoga retreats and have a small B&B. I met my first donkey Pano in 2013. He and his friends have led me to discover even more about myself and our journey together has become part of my spiritual practice.
Check out “donkeys are great” very own facebook page, written by Pano himself!
Dear brave Lucy has not been so good recently, her neurological problems are quite bad and she has a lot of problems in her spine. However we never give up with Lucy. She is very brave and strong. Thank you so much to our vet Marinka who has helped us so much . She suggested we try this medication called Adequan. We had enough for a few doses and it really helped Lucy. However it is not available in this country. After a big search from various kind friends we managed to locate it in France. However, it is very expensive it is actually 397 euro but going to Croatia it will get 25% VAT on it bringing it to almost €500. In the winter I struggle immensely to even feed all the animals going without many things to provide food for the many animals.I do not have the money to pay for this medication but we desperately need it as it has helped Lucy so much . Please if you could help us, we would be very grateful. All the bank details are in the description thank you very much.#hvarisland #donate #animal rescue #loveanimals #adoptdontshop
My favourite thing to do it walk high in the hills with the donkeys and pony . We go out for around 5 hours and enjoy the peace and beauty . It gives me a break from the house and all the other animals too. So lucky to have such amazing walks around here #nature #nature walks #exercise #hvarisland #donkeysofinstagram🐴
Lady Penelope at your service . Couldn’t fill the hay bags without her 😂🙈 #donkeysofinstagram #loveallanimals #hvar
Oscar is really the king of the jungle ! The woods are his domain and he walks for miles ! Looks like he has a sore paw. Luckily tne donkey Ubers are around d to give him a ride home ! #donkeysofinstagram #beautifulcats #catsofinstagram
Nice surprise gift from @zoocity.hr today ! Everyone wants to investigate. Dogs only kitties and Lady Penelope !
We are very happy to have lady Penelope back with us ❤️🫏❤️ #donkeysofinstagram #hvar #loveanimals #charity #rescue #hapoy
This week I took in Max , owners were ready to euthanise him as they were moving . Our kind vet Marinka refused and managed to get the owners to agree to blood tests results. All were good but in a checkup it was discovered Max has malignant cancer in his mouth …. This could have been caught if he had regular check ups . A life on a chain is not good for any animal and I urge anyone to consider what having an animal involves. It involves time and care and dedication. Also consider the breed of animal . I am desperately low on funds with no money to pay for my last hay delivery and the next cat/dog food order . I have many animals with special needs who need regular vet care and special food . Please consider donating even just a small amount to help us be the voice for animals ❤️#loveallanimals #hvar #animalrescue #dogsarethebest #dogsofinstagram #charity #donate
Sorry for the lack of updates everyone . Our internet has been terrible , more slow than a snail![]()
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We would like to thank all the wonderful people donated to our new water tanks ❤️![]()
This was a total surprise organised by our friends Tamsin and Andrew who secretly contacted many of the ex pats on the island . ![]()
For many many years Jana and her volunteers have had to carry many many litres of water up to us because there was no money to buy water tanks ![]()
This now means water is literally ‘on tap ‘ in our field and allows Jana to spent more time caring for all her animals ❤️❤️ especially us ![]()
We were incredibly touched at this kind action and if anyone who donated would love a special Pano hug ,kiss or a nibble on their bottom please pass by ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Once again it has been a very long time since we posted anything. Life has been very busy and rather dramatic for us but we are getting by ok. We will try to give you more updates soon. Jana started an official animal charity so we have many things to do.![]()
In the meantime, here is a lovely picture of me Pano with my lady love lily rose 🌹 as you can see we have a new baby( just kidding😹) it’s one of our barn cats Tommy😻
Last week we were very busy helping our lovely friend Janet make a new shelter for us . We had recycled all the material from a shelter my mum lady Penelope used to use when she came for her after summer freedom but now she has a new place ( story coming soon ! ) ![]()
Janet was amazing and once we stopped chewing all the wood we were quite helpful🙀😹![]()
When Janet discovered the roof was leaking she very kindly went to order a new roof for us which will arrive soon . Thank you so very much Janet for your time and roof donation ❤️❤️❤️ we really appreciate it .
It’s been a very very long time since I had time to write my page ! We are all good here but we have had an incredibly busy time these past months . I will write more news soon . Here’s a lovely photo though from our visitors the other day . It’s our dear friend Olya with the fabulous blue hair 😻who helps Jana so much with paperwork and other important things . And she brought her friend Lindsay from Belgium who had a great day hugging and kissing us all ( and bringing many carrots 🥕) And that’s my sweet sister Lula in the middle ! 😻🫏
The best rugs for the sweetest donkeys . Do you know donkeys are much more narrow across the chest shoulders so even tiny pony rugs fall off their shoulders !*** ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO ENTER! ***![]()
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To celebrate the arrival of our brand new Donkey Products catalogue we're running a fab COMPETITION to win one of our best selling Dinky Classic XD 100g Outdoor Rugs 😁![]()
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To enter, just LIKE our page, LIKE this post, SHARE this post to your page, and COMMENT below with the rug SIZE (2'9" - 5'6") you would like if you win (don't forget, you'll need to specify the size rug you would like in your comment for your entry to be valid)![]()
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Entries close at midnight on 4th November and the winner will be drawn at random from all names who comment below, and have LIKED & SHARED as above. Only one entry per person. Prize can only be posted within the UK.![]()
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Sadly, this post has reached just 10% of our followers 😢![]()
This has drastically reduced the number of entries so your chances of a WIN are pretty high!!!![]()
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PS. Sorry, all the freebie headcollars were snapped up within hours!
For a very long time Jana has been trying to find an equine dentist to check out our teeth . ‘You know Pano it’s very important to check your teeth at least once a year and you are 11 now !’🙀![]()
Then our friend Amy told us she had found a vet and equine dentist who lives in Canada but has a house on the island! ![]()
So early this week dear Boris and his lovely wife also called Amy visited us and checked our teeth! At first we were a little afraid so we made zena pony go first but very quickly we understood we were in expert hands and as you can see we were all very keen to be around our new dentist . Paca loved it so much she stood by Boris and Amy to ask if she could help too!! And Boris told us we had pretty good teeth 👍💪 and that we were his first donkey patients and he was very impressed with us ! ![]()
Big big big thank you to our friend Amy for arranging this and to vets Boris and his wife Amy to donating their time and fabulous skills to us ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫏🫏🫏 🦷
The beginning of my birthday week did not get off to a very good start . As we were almost home from our walk on Sunday I started choking! Jana got us all in and phoned the vet and also our friends Cindy and Janet who I think flew as they arrived so fast . To cut a long story short I recovered within the hour just in time for our vet Prospers arrival . I managed to do a big eeeeyyyorreee bray because Cindy made some special sounds ! and that removed whatever was blocking me . Choke can be very very dangerous for equines . We were all very relieved! ![]()
On Tuesday when it was my actual birthday lily rose suggested we just go for a gentle walk, ‘after all Pano’ she said ‘you are not getting any younger’🙀 ![]()
We had a lovely slow calm walk . ![]()
Big thank you to Cindy and Janet for their help and our vet Prosper for once again coming out on emergency call which of course always happens to be on a dark evening or public holiday !
2 weeks ago Jana received a call about a baby owl that was on its own in tne churchyard . She went up with the dogs Toto and Anuska to see if she could find the owl . It was hard to find the owl but as she was about to leave she spotted the owl! She called Norman the bird expert in the island and they discussed what to do. Luckily one of Jana’s volunteers had some chicken at home so the owl happily had raw chicken ! Phew ! After that Jana bought beef and chicken from the butcher and fed owl every few hours, most of the time waking up at 4 am to feed hungry owl 🙀🦉💪 ![]()
Since last week the owl who we have named Floof has moved on to mice, worms and grasshoppers which Jana has to chop up and feed to Floof ! Owl is doing really well and beginning to learn how to spread wings with flying under Jana’s tuition in the coming weeks ! We will keep you posted ! 😻![]()
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A few days ago we were about to go for a walk and suddenly it started to rain ! We were not expecting that but Jana had a raincoat in her bag and said we should go out anyway . We didn’t go too far from home and it was quite light rain which we enjoyed as it had been so hot . When we arrived home tne rain stopped and the sun started to come out . It was around 8pm and then this beautiful rainbow appeared! Jana took sone videos which she put on our Instagram page and then gave je these photos to put in my page . Aren’t they beautiful!
Anyone around stari grad/ dol area seen this cat ? Thanks in advance for looking out for him !
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