Pasado’s Safe Haven
Each month I feature a different non-profit participating in my Community Partnership Program. When a client hires me to help them sell or buy a property, I donate an amount equal to 10% of my commission to the non-profit of their choice in their name. I’ve established strong relationships with many different non-profits and continue to work diligently spreading the word about this wonderful opportunity. I love supporting non-profits in this way.
Pasado’s Safe Haven is this month’s featured non-profit.
April 15, 2007 was the 15th anniversary of Pasado’s death. Pasado the donkey, the 21-year-old beloved fixture at Kelsey Creek Farm, died after three teenage boys snuck into Pasado’s pasture. They attempted to ride him and when he resisted they began beating him with tree branches the size of clubs. When he fell and could no longer walk they tied a noose around his neck and pulled him up a tree, strangling him to death. Workers at the park discovered him hanging from the tree the next morning. That day Pasado’s Safe Haven was founded.
No one could believe such a thing could happen in Bellevue, Washington. The sprawling, high-tech campus of Microsoft was just five minutes from Kelsey Creek Farm where Pasado died. Bill Gates, its founder, lived only minutes away. Things like this just didn’t happen there.
Compounding the horror was the reality of the penalty the three boys would face: breaking and entering - the choice of the prosecutor because it carried a far greater sentence than beating an animal to death. What our community didn’t know was that Washington State’s anti-cruelty laws hadn’t been updated in over 100 years.
Pasado’s Safe Haven’s work in a nutshell: To promote the welfare and safety of all animals. Click here to visit their website.
As a kid my family moved from the Central District to Kirkland in the early 70s and I lived there until I moved back to Seattle in 1982. People knew where Kelsey Creek Farm was and that Pasado was the old farm donkey. I’m a serious lover of animals. When I heard the newsbreak about Pasado the deliberate cruelty and insanity was unbelievable.
It’s a pleasure to let my clients know that Pasado’s Safe Haven is one of my Community Partners and that their transaction can support the work of this non-profit organization.
You can donate, volunteer, and get involved with the Pasado’s by contacting co-founder Susan Michaels:
Pasado’s Safe Haven
P.O. Box 171
Sultan WA 98294
Phone: 360.793. 9393
Fax: 425.820.1717
Susan@pasadosafehaven.org