Rescuing the damn Donkeys

In the Great Clean Up there are moments of whimsey and of despair.  Sometimes they coincide.  Digging through strata of long irrelevant junk paper I came across this:

By this point my routine of shuffle, glance, identify, sort had become quite efficient.  But what the heck was this???

Well you have to know that sadly for the last decade or so that my mom lived at home she was bombarded by scammers.  The phone rang every hour (and it still does occasionally), the mailbox was full of appeals.  When one loosely uses the term "a ton" its usually hyperbole.  But I'm sure she got five pounds of mail every day, virtually all of it useless and a large percentage of it scamsters.  That's a ton every 18 months or so.  What she was getting on the internet before she lost the ability to use it, I don't want to know.

Finds of this nature are becoming less common in "the stacks".  Its one area we've been able to take stuff out wholesale.  But they keep coming.  Whoever occupies this house next will get them for another decade at least.

My brother and I have a bit of dark humor regards this stuff.  She got appeals from every end and each fringe of the political spectrum.  "At least they've found something to agree on".  There were certain themes.  Animal rescue.  Famine relief.  Political prisoners in faraway lands.  After a bit they started mixing and matching.  We expected to see appeals to "Free the starving Ethiopian donkeys".

This is in that vein.

It's a deck of playing cards from a place that is a Donkey Rescue ranch.  Why cards?  Well, lots of these outfits will send you some small trinket.  Mailing labels.  Stickers.  Sometimes a nickel or a dime glued to their appeal.  Playing cards were a new one to me.  Maybe they figure their core mark demographic sits around playing solitaire.

Anyway, sans future comment, here's a few pics.  I was mildly curious about the Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue folks.  They seem to own a very large tract of land out west.  Where they get the donkeys in need of rescue was not clear.  If you also get curious and look 'em up, don't send them any money.