How?

A farmer, a field, five neglected donkeys, no water, no food, left to die as rendered useless to the owner, hooves in terrible shape, an observant person passing by, a call to the SPCA, quick action, no fussing around with bureaucracy, a rescue effort, an emergency call to us, and we have four new donkeys, including a twelve day old foal. The future for the three grown donkeys look as grim as it did for the fifth donkey, that never made it to us.

Mom and daughter.
 If you enlarge the picture you can see how overgrown mom's feet are.