Indeed, in the Roman Coliseum games, one of the common events was to release a pack of wolves on a lone donkey. Inevitably, the donkey survived, the wolves did not.
Also, there's a reason a particularly difficult person is called a jackass...
More people are killed by donkeys than by any other mammal. Having owned five (two standard, three miniature), I can believe it and agree with your descriptions.
I've worked a great deal with donkeys in my Latin American ag development work, where we call them 'burros', and they're generally a smaller sort than, say, those in the Middle East. In Latin America I've never seen anybody older than about 12 actually riding one, but they're commonly used as pack animal for loads up to 100 kg, and I've rarely seen one object.
Perhaps that's because a common load in the lowlands is bananas, and because there are ripe bananas for the grabbing all over the place on unattended "trees", the drovers eat them. A LOT of them -- free food, so why not? -- but here's the key ... burros are passionately fond of the banana skins the drovers feed them.
I've seen groups of pack burros get incredibly excited as the drovers tack them up for a loaded trip -- as in braying like a gang of 12-year-old all trying to play trumpet, or what I suspect it sounds like with a bunch of drunk guys at titty-bar. They think the banana skins they get on the trip are a fantastic bonus.
Upland burros haul coffee beans, but they still get paid in banana skins, and count it a very good deal. And FWIW, I've never seen a burro abused or mistreated. I'm sure it happens, but it must be quite rare.
So Sod-Off you busybody numpties, go find something actually useful to do, and stop behaving as though you've been donkey-kicked in the head on a repeated basis.
Across the pond JD Vance called his opponents (who are generally the same sort as the would-be donkey ride bansturbators) "childless crazy cat-ladies".
Indeed, in the Roman Coliseum games, one of the common events was to release a pack of wolves on a lone donkey. Inevitably, the donkey survived, the wolves did not.
Also, there's a reason a particularly difficult person is called a jackass...
More people are killed by donkeys than by any other mammal. Having owned five (two standard, three miniature), I can believe it and agree with your descriptions.
I've worked a great deal with donkeys in my Latin American ag development work, where we call them 'burros', and they're generally a smaller sort than, say, those in the Middle East. In Latin America I've never seen anybody older than about 12 actually riding one, but they're commonly used as pack animal for loads up to 100 kg, and I've rarely seen one object.
Perhaps that's because a common load in the lowlands is bananas, and because there are ripe bananas for the grabbing all over the place on unattended "trees", the drovers eat them. A LOT of them -- free food, so why not? -- but here's the key ... burros are passionately fond of the banana skins the drovers feed them.
I've seen groups of pack burros get incredibly excited as the drovers tack them up for a loaded trip -- as in braying like a gang of 12-year-old all trying to play trumpet, or what I suspect it sounds like with a bunch of drunk guys at titty-bar. They think the banana skins they get on the trip are a fantastic bonus.
Upland burros haul coffee beans, but they still get paid in banana skins, and count it a very good deal. And FWIW, I've never seen a burro abused or mistreated. I'm sure it happens, but it must be quite rare.
So Sod-Off you busybody numpties, go find something actually useful to do, and stop behaving as though you've been donkey-kicked in the head on a repeated basis.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties.
Her contentions are her children: heaven help him who denies.
(Rudyard Kipling, "The Female of the Species")
Across the pond JD Vance called his opponents (who are generally the same sort as the would-be donkey ride bansturbators) "childless crazy cat-ladies".