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Former NASCAR driver Kenny Shepherd helped with a private rescue of two donkeys who were stranded on a shrinking island at California's Lake McClure. The donkeys, who had wandered off from a larger herd that lives in the area, were stranded due to the water level rising, cutting them off from the main body of land. The rescue took three weeks to plan, with Shepherd paying for much of it. He worked with local government agencies, urban tracking specialists, donkey experts, fabricators and welders to create a structure on the island that could herd the donkeys onto a rescue barge