MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland Southern California.

The 2-year-old female burro was spotted last Wednesday with a blue arrow protruding from her right shoulder as she wandered with a herd in the foothills of Moreno Valley, about 65 miles (104 km) east of Los Angeles.

Animal services and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded and helped bring the wounded animal in for an emergency procedure to remove the arrowhead. The projectile had punctured the burro’s right lung, said Chad Cheatham, vice president of DonkeyLand, a nonprofit rescue organization.

“Right now she’s s

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