{"id":3834,"date":"2016-05-21T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/21\/hawaii-has-a-donkey-problem-heres-how-you-can-adopt-them\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:24:49","slug":"hawaii-has-a-donkey-problem-heres-how-you-can-adopt-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/21\/hawaii-has-a-donkey-problem-heres-how-you-can-adopt-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii has a donkey problem. Here's how you can adopt them."},"content":{"rendered":"

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HONOLULU, Hawaii –\u00a0<\/span>The last 50 wild donkeys on Hawaii’s Big Island will be rounded up, marking the final step in a six-year effort to get them in adoptive homes.<\/p>\n

The donkeys are the last of more than 500 that were cast-offs from the early days of Hawaii coffee and agricultural plantations.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Smiling rescued donkey is so happy to be back on solid ground<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When drought conditions forced the donkeys into residential areas in search of water, the herd became a problem. The animals wandered into roadways, tore up golf courses and drank from swimming pools, said Inga Gibson, Hawaii state director for the Humane Society of the United States. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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HONOLULU, Hawaii –\u00a0The last 50 wild donkeys on Hawaii’s Big Island will be rounded up, marking the final step in a six-year effort to get them in adoptive homes. The donkeys are the last of more than 500 that were … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2968,2967,896,2966,735],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-donkey-adoption","tag-hawaiian-donkeys","tag-home","tag-humane-society","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}