- The owners of a
New Jersey Farm are outraged afterteens broke into their petting zoo. - The six teens rode the family's mini-donkeys, after putting lipstick on one of them, and stole from their market.
- Police are investigating, and the owners are worried about their donkeys, who are skittish after the incident, one owner wrote on Facebook.
At least six teenagers broke into a New Jersey farm on Sunday, put lipstick on a petting zoo donkey, and rode several of them, according to one of the farm's owners.
Jimmy Abma, a fourth-generation farmer of Abma Farms in Wyckoff, New Jersey, learned of the
"They opened gates and rode our miniature donkeys, who should not be supporting that much weight, Abma wrote in a Facebook post. "One person took a snapchat of another person riding our mini donkey and applied the Abma's Farm geofilter."
When Abma learned of the abuse, he went to the pens, and found that two trespassers were attempting to steal and then fled the scene, he wrote.
He alerted local police and closed the farm Monday so vets could do a well-being check on all the
Abma's family lives on the farm. In addition to their behavior being harmful to the animals, it could have been dangerous to them, as well, Abma said, as donkeys can kick.
"Our animals are now shaken and skittish compared to their normal relaxed nature. This is very troubling to us," he wrote. "A couple of our animals got loose from gates left open but after thoroughly searching this morning, all animals are accounted for."
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