"I can attest that many of Donkey’s classic head tilts, eye rolls and bouncy trots were straight from Perry," the animal's handler, Jenny Kiratli, tells PEOPLE Perry the miniature donkey ...

In recent weeks, his health had rapidly deteriorated as he struggled to walk and suffered intense pain from an incurable condition, said Jenny Kiratli, lead handler for the animals at Barron Park ...

Everywhere Jenny Kiratli goes these days, someone stops her to share their memories of Perry the miniature donkey. The beloved Palo Alto, Calif., creature — who was the model for Donkey ...

His passing was confirmed by Jenny Kiratli, lead handler of the Barron Park Donkey Project, where Perry had lived since 1997. Donkeys typically live 25–30 years in the wild and sometimes into ...

Jenny Kiratli, the donkey’s handler, told this publication. He was 30. Perry has been at the park since 1997 and had spent much of his life in the company of Miner Forty Niner, who died in 2016.

The 30-year-old Perry was euthanized on Jan. 2 following a battle with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction, laminitis, arthritis and muscle atrophy, said Jenny Kiratli, lead handler with the ...

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 many people knew him,” his handler, Jenny Kiratli told People. In the memorial post, the project managers said the donkey had arrived there at age 3 in 1997, “young and feisty,” but had ...

A real-life donkey who served as the animation model for the character Donkey in the “Shrek” franchise died on Thursday at the age of 30 at his home in California. Pericles, affectionately ...

Jenny Kiratli, Perry’s handler, confirmed to PEOPLE that the animal — who lived in a community-run pasture in the Barron Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. — died on Thursday ...

A donkey sanctuary in the San Francisco Bay Area is mourning the loss of Perry, popularly known for serving as the model for Eddie Murphy's character Donkey in the "Shrek" animated movie.