Ron King, a media mogul turned donkey rescuer, likes to quote his farrier, Megan Hensley: “Everybody loves donkeys — they just don’t know it yet.”
Before he stumbled across a TikTok video that showed a rescued donkey herd at a livestock auction that had been bound for slaughter, King had never given donkeys much and , but he’d recently left the business — along with a fast-paced New York lifestyle — and was living in California, trying to figure out his next chapter.
