I want a donkey. They look like fun.

Are we talking Tijuana fun?

What do you do with a donkey?

I befriended a donkey when I was in Grenada a few years ago. He was tied up by a country roadside. I fed him apples and peanut butter.

Here you go OP. One of the great cinema classics. But can be quite dark.

I cried more at Bresson's donkey's death than I did for my father's.

OP you can learn more here:

You must be a size queen, OP.

Is it common to see them in Spain? Are they pretty smart/friendly on average?

An old couple on the edge of my town raise miniature donkeys. They always have at least half a dozen wandering around their big front yard (they live on an acreage), and the donkeys live in those plastic dog houses you can buy at Petsmart. They're cute as Hell, but completely useless as far as I can see.

They're cute and fun and you can ride them. I used to try to save them once when I would see them being abused. Used to stick my head out of the car, scream and wanted to kill the guy beating the donkey( I was 6 yrs old).

Ah, so they are for riding!

Yes.

Donkeys are adorable and very sturdy. I would highly recommend donkeys. They are more friendly than llamas -- but require a lot more specialized work (the hooves have been of special trouble.) They can live through stuff that usually kills goats, chickens, horses etc which is also a relief if you've ever lost barn-animals. They aren't just lucky, they are smart as hell and I love them.

They seem to abused a lot, unfortunately.

I recommend a mule, instead. They're a cross between a horse and a donkey, so they're shorter and lighter than a horse but gentler and more obedient than a donkey.

From some site: "Mules possess hybrid vigor. They are typically stronger than horses and are much longer-lived with much longer working lives. They seldom become sick or lame, and they tolerate extremes of temperature. Mules can live on frugal food rations, have great stamina, are resilient and sure-footed."

I used to love Gunsmoke when I was a kid, and I'd laugh every time Festus would come riding up on his mule.

Awwww he loves her!! Baby goats (especially dressed in tiny jammies) are cute as hell too.

Don't forget the saying "as stubborn as a mule".

Hee-hawww!

I really like donkeys, but you heathens should be ashamed!

Christ, R19!

Watch Tiny the Donkey on youtube. He is so cute.

You can get them practically for free from the Bureau of Land Management (at least until Donnie Moscow finds out about it).

I had a Donkey Dick..

Can they be house trained?

Horses and donkey are different species with different numbers of chromosomes. Their offspring are therefore sterile and can't reproduce. A male donkey and a female horse produce a mule. A female donkey and a male horse produce a jinny.

^ hinny, not jinny.

Can they be breed with moose?

Only at Christmas.

I know a place in Tijuana where you can get one...

What would you name your donkey?

I don’t understand the Tijuana references.

In rural Russia or China or something, there are restaurants where they chain a donkey and cut off requested parts of him/her for cooking before the donkey's and diners' eyes. The donkey dies as the the people happily chew on his/her roasted body parts.

Here is Fred the donkey. He looks like a good boy.

The Chinese are just repulsive cruel people.

In Tijuana they paint white stripes on their donkeys, and then you can pay the owners to have your picture taken with an actual zebra!

Fred is ok, but he’s no Christmas Moose.

Here’s a happy donkey. He’s kinda loud.

Just the title of this thread makes me want to keep coming back to DL.

Who would leave a donkey country to come to a non-donkey county?

Donkeys can be ferocious and are mortal enemies of coyotes. A neighbor who has lots of waterfowl was losing them to coyotes and was told to get a donkey. The donkey is like a sheep dog and protects the birds day and night and is apparently very effective.

Donkey is delicious . Especially you cook them for more than 8 hours

What do you get when you cross a donkey with an onion?

A piece of ass that will bring tears to your eyes.

My father ordered a donkey from the Spiegel catalog when we were kids. She arrived on the train in our small town of 1800 people. We lived in town but had a large fenced in yard. All the neighbor kids came over to ride Jenny-Lee. When she had enough she’d head for the pine trees and ‘scrape’ them off. She was really fun and sweet. Good memories,

A donkey? We bought a zoo.

So what happened to Jenny-Lee, R43? How long did you have her? You didn't send her to China did you?

R45. Jenny-Lee was moved out to our farm so she would have more room to roam. My oldest sister tied her to a post (I don’t remember why) and she accidentally strangled herself. My father was very upset and I felt bad for my sister, she never would have intentionally hurt Jenny.

How old is R43?

Did you listen to that happy donkey in R37? Echoing down the valley? Good thing he doesn’t do that every morning with the sunrise!

I feel bad for Jenny-Lee. We were always careful with our German Shepherd when we left him in the yard. Never tie a dog with a choker on. Maybe they don’t even use chokers anymore. No matter what we did, he would always get out. Finally he just self-trained to stay on the porch, most of his outdoor time. Sometimes he would walk a half mile down the street and go chase rabbits and bullfrogs and butterflies and skunks, and swim in the swamp, then come home at dinner time to general disapprobation. There were 7 kids, so, no, we never knew where the dog was, except at dinner time.

(Someone asked if the 11-room, 1908 house was haunted. Same answer: with 7 kids, 1 dog, 1 bird, other shorter term animals, 2 parents, and a grandmother, nothing was ever left where you put it down earlier, so who could tell?)

I have a very close friend who owns a ranch way out in the suburbs. He has 1 donkey and 2 mules and a few goats. The donkey (his name is Lonesome) is the funniest thing ever. He will stand completely still for the longest time and for no reason at all just jump straight up and kick out his back legs while braying like mad. My friend said it's just him burning off some energy. He also loves the goats, and they love him.

I've been loving all these videos. Thanks, guys! Donkeys on the Île-de-Ré wear pants because of mosquitoes!

A few of my neighbors have donkeys as pets along with their horses. They can be really sweet. And there are also wild donkeys who roam the town and are destructive, eating gardens and shitting all over. I made friends with my neighbor's small pet donkey Rambo, though I called him Balthazar, in honor of "Au Hasard Balthazar." He would Bray when he saw me coming and I would give him apples from my tree, carrots or celery. He would push his head against me to get me to pet him. Sadly he passed away last winter. I miss him. I still have a couple of other donkey friends, Lucy and her son Banjo. Donkeys can be very sweet and affectionate and enjoy being petted by people. Not ornery, in my experience.

We had horses growing up. When I was about 4 the SPCA called my father because there was a donkey roaming around Block Island. They asked if we could take it in. So they put her on the ferry and we adopted her. She was great but you couldn't ride her. She'd roam the yard freely just happy to be there.

Gotta wonder how he got to Block Island.

They are great guard animals and are frequently turned out in calving/foaling season with livestock herds. They will kill coyotes, but dogs as well. When I was in a rural village outside Ixtapa, Mexico, I noted all livestock, except the roaming burros, were skin and bones. The burros were fat and shiny. All the villas had to have heavy stockade fencing all around to keep the burros from eating all the tropical landscaping.

Attention must be paid!

What am I, chopped liver?

R52. Those are magnificent Poitou donkeys which are carefully registered and guarded by the French government. One can't export them and everybody who loves donkeys would love to have the hairy, tall and thick boned Poitou

Who knew donkeys could be so affectionate.

I knew it, R60. Somehow, I just knew it!

You're a jackass OP

He wants a head rub.

I had no idea donkeys can be so sweet and housetrainable.

My rural neighbor had donkeys and they were very personable. If I was in the yard they always came over to the fence and wanted attention. I think that's about all they did. My neighbor had plans to get a donkey cart for her grand-kids. but it never happened and she eventually gave then away.

R63 Awwww what a good boy! If I had one I'd never leave home.

Yeah, but most donkeys are asses.

I am, R62! Ee-yore!

I live very close to a horse-y neighborhood where just about everyone has a stable. You see a lot of donkeys, even very small ones, as companion animals to the horses. A good friend of mine who had only one horse at the time told me that horses don't do well on their own and need constant companionship: she couldn't afford a second horse, so she adopted a small donkey to keep her horse company.

Your condo board will love this, OP.

R69 what a great idea! It does seem lonely to be the only creature in the barn.

R71, yes! Well, she told me they naturally depend on their fellow horsies to alert them if there is trouble (ie a predator), so a lone horse becomes paranoid. The people in the neighborhood generally buy them a small donkey or a dog of their own.

[quote]Have you had a donkey?

Yes, once. His name was Billy.

Or Bobby? Yes, that's right, Bobby! Or was it Ben? Oh who knows, anyway, it started with a B.

My Grandmother’s go-to swear word was to call someone a [italic] Jackass, [/italic] which was said with vim!. I really appreciate it. She was a good girl but lived dirt poor most of her life, and had to scrabble. She’s the one who partnered-up with Grandpa Otto. Considering her life challenges, I have to credit the old gal. She was the last 19th century-born person that I personally knew. Lived to 96.

One of the videos I watched, as I learn about donkeys, is that they NEVER abandon their pals. Aww, that’s nice.

R75 Wow!! Who knew?

For the heck of it, I will mention that a friend stuck me with some ancient guy at a Christmas party in the early 1980s. Turned out, he worked in my home town during WWI ! Yes, “1”. That was rather cool. It was like meeting a Civil War Vet at a party and learning about him being a stevedore from my home town 70 years earlier. It would have been better if he didn’t have pepperoni breath, or maybe the stench of death, though. God rest his soul.

Gunther, what part of the country are you from?

R78, Connecticut. The Xmas party was in Rhode Island. Grammar Marie was born in Lawrence, MA in 1899. Got pregnant at 16. Her first partner was never spoken of. I only learned of him via documentation. Marie’s kids spent two stints in an orphanage - once before she met Grandpa Otto, and once after he died in Brooklyn in 1927, poor Otto!

Thank you for asking, R78.

R79, you have an old-time-y way of expressing yourself that is very charming. Thank you for the stories.

Yep, R78/R80, I am an eldergay but more than that, I like to use DataLounge to stretch my vocabulary. Otherwise, I have a long list of words that are getting rusty and the Evening Punctuationist is poking me in the side with a shive. .

I am confused!! This is the I Want A Donkey thread...? R77-R81

I just wondered over here in my bathrobe. I’ll go back to “early 20th century German-American history for 200”, with my head hung, R82.

Lol Gunther. All is forgiven.

R81, you are welcome.

I'm not yet an eldergay, but part of my family were German farmers in Wisconsin from 1820-1950, so I would like hearing more.

R85, here is the thread where I did the “big reveal” about Grandpa Otto.

Basically, my Dad’s family were puritans, literally. Much later, some even lived in a Ducth or German religious utopian community in CT in the 19th century. God bless them!

I only researched my Mom’s father, Grandpa Otto, recently. [italic] She [/italic] was an angel. A little [italic] young [/italic] church lady long before becoming a little [italic] old [/italic] church lady. She would dust the Church votive candle candelabrum when no one was looking. But her Papa! OMG. I think he played in the band in “Cabaret” in Berlin! See the link.

Please move to the link if interested. I don’t want to disturb the donkey lovers any further.

He-Haw, George!

Gunther, I like you. I really do. You sound like a pleasure and if I was ever at a party and you were there, I park myself next to you and not move. I have a feeling I’d be hearing some fantastic stories.

Also, you said:

[quote]I like to use DataLounge to stretch my vocabulary.

You just helped me stretch my vocabulary. Either I forgot, or never knew, what a stevedore was. So I looked it up. Thanks!

OP Be careful

R87, if you were a 3 Stooges fan, you might recognize their use of stevedore/matador/troubadour/cuspidor. You might need to be a 10 year old boy to find this funny.

Yes, indeed, thank you, Günther!

Braying donkey.

Plus, I have to bury the previous post.

About donkeys as pets.

Ever since I was a kid, donkeys have vaguely unnerved me because they make me think of that boy from Pinocchio who turned into a donkey. Freakiest moment from any Disney film.

Actual stable genius.

Seems legit

R94 Awwww! What a smart and sweet good boy.

Irish Donkey.

[quote] Donkey is delicious .

And handy in socialist lands.

When I was a kiddie this was my favourite book.

They are great. Smart, tough, stubborn, keep the garden tidy. Go for it OP.

His name is Spunky, R99.

Yes, R101. I know.

Eddie the braying donkey.

OP, have you ever popped ping pong balls out your mussy in a show in Tijuana?

No, r104, though I have been there.

Here’s Harriet, the singing Irish donkey. She’s a soprano.

Oh, Happy New Year, donkey lovers!

Still looks like fun.

OMG, he could sub for the Christmas Moose.

No, papi you don’t...

OP this is not what they meant when your friends told you that you need to get some ass.

Donkey can be many funs for yourself and for man friends. Do not forget to feed donkey. Donkey likes people food so easy to feed.

Fuck you, r108!

Accept no substitutes!

Donkey launched into space.

You used to be able to buy donkey sausages in the UES in new york. Didn't taste like chicken.

Apparently, you've never seen a goat wearing a sweater.

I'd like one. Or do they need a companion? Do they shit all over the place like goats do? I hear they make good watch dogs. But they must need a stable.

Anyway I must watch that Bresson. Online I wonder? Love his films.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MULES AND DONKEYS?

I don’t want a mule. I want a donkey.

I found some night donkeys, here. The mother-daughter pair were bought to keep the dwarf horse company. Do you think they’d have trouble in a 4-story walk-up apartment? I’m not sure that I have room for all three.

[quote] A female donkey and a male horse produce a jinny.

I know her -- she works in Billing.

Here’s Eeyore.

Donkeys are the only horsy-like mammal that can make sounds when breathing both in and out.

We bought a Zoo, with donkeys!

Donkeys are the only animals of its type (horse, zebras, camel, etc) than cam make sounds, both when breathing in and out. I’m still thinking about getting one.