Known as the inspiration for the character Donkey, voiced by comedy legend Eddie Murphy in the 2001 animated classic “Shrek,” Perry was a beloved staple in the Palo Alto community, remembered for his ...

Perry the donkey, who lived just two miles off campus and was beloved by many Stanford community members, died in early ...

Courtesy Steve Shpall. Perry, a beloved miniature donkey who has been a fixture of Bol Park for nearly three decades and who famously served as the model for the Donkey character in “Shrek ...

Perry had lived on the Bol Park pasture in the Barron Park neighborhood since 1997. His handler, Jenny Kiratli, told Palo Alto Online on Thursday that Perry had suffered from a hoof disease called ...

Perry, a playful and feisty miniature donkey, was euthanized at age 30 on Jan. 2 after a long battle with laminitis, a painful hoof disease, according to Jenny Kiratli, a volunteer at Bol Park in ...

So in 1997, the “spunky” 3-year-old was brought to Palo Alto’s Bol Park to live in a pasture set aside for donkeys to graze. It was there in 1999 that Rex Grignon, a supervising animator at ...

Donkey may not have made waffles in the morning — that last part in Eddie Murphy’s voice — without the help of Perry the ...

BPDonkeys/Instagram Perry resided at Cornelis Bol Park in Palo Alto, California and served as a support animal. Paying for his care, and for the other donkeys, slowly became a point of controversy ...

"He had a huge impact." Perry, a miniature donkey, has lived at Cornelis Bol Park since 1997, when his previous owner gave him up. He's cared for by the non-profit community organization Barron ...

SFGATE met Perry back in 2021, when he was a mere 26 years old, in his home at Cornelis Bol Park in Palo Alto. “It’s evident if you know Perry and watch the movie that it’s him.

He had been a fixture of the Bol Park pasture for over three decades, with Kiratli explaining that one of the animators for Shrek lived nearby, and was directed towards the pasture by his wife ...