The story of Galileo, the donkey firefighter from Doñana who thought he was a canine, changed into a guide

Galileo was born a donkey, he brays like a donkey and kicks like a donkey. But this tender animal of just about years has all the time considered himself as a canine. Yes, sure, as they learn. With only a few months to dwell, he was picked up from the road by the Huelva Local Police and transferred to the municipal kennel. It is typical of those cute animals to repeat what they see. So little Galileo started to behave like his fellow canines.

“He sniffed the bottom, pulled you, performed round and adopted you want a bit canine on a regular basis,” Cristina Mariño from the Happy Burrito Association advised NIUS, the place they took him in months later to show him to be what he’s: a donkey. An affectionate and extremely empathetic animal with a permeable character. “If you give him love, he goes with you to the top of the world,” she admits. It’s what he did along with his canine household.

Now, his unimaginable story has been placed on paper by Huelva author Graf Bejaranus and the Mr.MoMO publishing home, who’ve turned Galileo into the protagonist of a kids’s guide that units him up for instance of overcoming and adapting to the issues of lifetime. In the writer’s opinion, the Galileo donkey is “a optimistic reference that new generations ought to know”.

Because regardless of struggling the horrible expertise of being deserted by the people he thought-about his household, Galileo has not given up and has managed to be a cheerful canine. Sorry, a donkey. All due to his canine pals who welcomed him as one of many pack to point out him how beneficiant nature and the animal species that inhabit it may be.

One extra of the crew of donkey firefighters from Doñana

One extra achievement within the intensive curriculum of this donkey who additionally boasts of being a part of the Doñana donkey fireplace crew, concerned in defending the setting. Currently, Galileo, together with 5 different colleagues, is working to clear a number of hectares of the “Wendy Clements” Animal Sanctuary in Chucena, serving to the ladies’s environmental group Mujeres por Doñana of their combat towards glyphosate and different herbicides and pesticides within the crops of this pure setting.

With the passage of time and residing along with his friends, Galileo has been leaving all canine habits behind. Or virtually. “He nonetheless has the behavior of desirous to take meals by hand. He approaches you and nuzzles you asking for it, ”Mariño tells us. Because one thing of a canine will all the time stay in him.