“The only difference is he doesn’t shout, ‘Shrek!’” Grignon stopped by the pasture to visit Perry in March and he said he was delighted to spend time again with the sweet-natured burro.

In the run-up to the release of “Shrek,” a celebrity emerged from a ... But in recent years, the beloved burro’s health worsened. Perry had Cushing’s disease — a metabolic disorder ...