In the run-up to the release of “Shrek,” a celebrity emerged from a pasture in Palo Alto, California — Perry, a 5-year-old gray miniature donkey. Dozens of animators visited the pasture ...

So many people knew him,” Kiratli says of Perry's legacy, before sharing that the donkey was brought to the pasture in 1997 at the age of 3. “The story that people tell is that he was meant to ...

Nova initially appears cautious, but soon makes her way out into the pasture, where she and Donkey immediately appear to hit it off. "He instantly came out of his shell," Bunnie writes in the ...

Prior to his passing on Thursday night, he was one of three donkeys at the Bol Park pasture, along with April and Buddy. Kiratli said that Perry had been suffering from laminitis, a hoof disease ...