03/29/2017
There have been negative comments made about me so here is my side of the story. There was no abuse. She has blown everything out of proportion. There is very little truth in the rant that Lauren Lesko Paytes posted. here is what happened. I was contracted to pick up 10 un-tame donkeys from an elderly gentleman in Tennessee. When I arrived Ms Paytes and her friend were there. I backed into the corral where the donkeys were, the friend brought panels to help corral the donkeys to the back of the trailer. We goth them all squeezed up to the trailer but not would step in. All the petting and rubbing in the world will not make them go in the trailer. After an hour she tried to call Kimberly but could not get her on the phone. They wanted me to leave with out the 10 I was to pick up. Stated that the only thing I was worried about was getting paid, I said Kimberly was paying me to deliver 12 not 10. so I went and called her. She answered the phone and I explained what was going on and asked what she wanted me to do. she stated that they needed to be on the trailer. We went back to try again, this time deciding to try 5 at a time, I did pick up a small limb from the ground to help reach further to help separate the donkeys. I never hit any of them with said "stick". With the 5 at the trailer they still would not load. We pushed them up as far as we could with the panel. I took the horseman's stick and bumped them on the side of the face to help turn them toward the trailer. Tapped their ears and poked their rear end with the rubber handle in hopes of getting some kind of movement. The friend at some point side he was through and left. which left me and Ms. Paytes and the elderly gentleman there to load them. The donkeys were trying to escape and yes a couple did get their feet through the bottom of the panel, I did bump ones leg with my toe but I was not the only one that did this same gesture. The man came back talking about me trying to kill the donkeys beating them and squeezing them into that small space. After a few back and forth comments I asked if they were his donkeys, he stated no so I told him I was finished talking to him. I was trying to abid by Kimberlys wishes to load the donkeys and get them to her. I was there 2 hours trying to load them. They finally broke free of the panel so i called Kimberly and told her that we could not get them loaded. She told me to leave them and bring the other 2. so that's what I did. If someone can tell me constructively how to load a un-tame donkeys by all means educate me. Their way did not work then they spread lies about how I handled them. None of them were hurt in this process.
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