Plans for a mass donkey sterilization operation on Hawaii’s Big Island have been postponed. A team of veterinarians, the Humane Society and community groups had planned to sterilize a herd of more than 400 wild donkeys living in Waikoloa. But heavy rains this winter means the donkeys have plenty of different places to eat — making them harder to corral.
“We planned to do a clinic next week for humanely capturing and castrating the donkeys and either rehoming those to sanctuaries on the mainland or ideally at a sanctuary here in Hawaii where they could live out the rest of the lives,” Inga Gibson of the Humane Society of the United States told KITV.
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