A Maine farmer has almost given up his efforts to corral a donkey he bought two months ago at an auction. Tranquilizers, a luring date and even a horse whisperer have so far failed to persuade Jenny the donkey to make a comeback since she fled the corral, presumably in search for her lost love.

Joe Varricchio, the co-owner of the farm called "Mary Gardens," bought Jenny from an auction thinking its presence in the farm would ward off predators like fox, coyotes and raccoons that have been snatching 50 to 60 hens a year. But his hopes were diluted when the freedom-minded equine eluded the farm just two weeks after and since then Varricchio's every effort to corral her have failed.

Varricchio said that even a dose of tranquilizers didn't seem to have effect on Jenny, because when his son shot the donkey with a tranquilizer dart, she ran away into the woods and was up and about even two hours later.

Putting tranquilizers in her food, didn't work either, AP quoted Varricchio as saying to the Morning Sentinel newspaper.

Following the advice, Varrichio called in a horse whisperer, but even she couldn't figure out what Jenny was up to.

To coax Jenny to the farm, a volunteer, who has knowledge of miniature horses and donkeys, brought along a male donkey, Jackson. But Jenny seemed to be least interested in the date.

According to Karina Lewis, the horse whisperer, Jenny might be wandering on 30 acres of woods behind the farm because she's searching for her mate, from whom she was separated from at the auction.