r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 2d ago
Animal I love how the donkey immediately starts pleading his case with his owner 🫏(Stephanie W.
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u/Adventurous_Persik 2d ago
That donkey was immediately ready to negotiate. It’s like he knew the game and was like, “Alright, let’s make a deal.”
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u/vibetiger 2d ago
“Waffles…WAFFLES!”
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u/PozhanPop 2d ago
This one made the rounds a few years ago. I can never get enough of it. When she uses the mommy tone to scold poor Waffles and poor Waffles trying to explain the situation.
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u/Psyonicpanda 2d ago
He looks so lonely, a donkey buddy would make him so much happier
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u/Brief_Engineering639 1d ago
Yes he needs a friend but what would it’s name be lol
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u/shawdowalker 2d ago
People have pet donkeys?
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u/Agitated_Year8521 2d ago
People keep weirder animals than donkeys as pets. Donkeys are incredibly sociable and are good company if you have the right environment to care for them, they're pretty smart too
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u/Rabid_Sloth_ 2d ago
Yeah I'm not a farmer or rancher but I also hear they are top notch defense/guard animals. Will protect entire flocks.
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u/OstentatiousSock 1d ago
A donkey protected my nephew from a raging pitbull once. Thing came out of no where and went straight at hit. Donkey gave him a few good kicks before it yelped off. Donkey and child unharmed.
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u/ChopCow420 2d ago
This is actually a common misunderstanding about donkeys. While they do have natural tendencies to confront threats more than some other prey animals, they are in absolutely no way equip behaviorally to protect livestock against real threats. People will mistakenly rely on them to defend livestock thinking that it's a given, but at the end of the day they are prey animals and there are more real-life stories of donkeys being brutally killed by predators because people unknowingly thought they are the same as livestock guardian dogs.
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u/Pinksters 1d ago
I mean...Ive seen a video of a donkey swinging a coyote around by the neck, videos of them curbstomping foxes and heard many tales of similar situations.
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u/ChopCow420 1d ago
Those incidents do occur, but you could never predictably rely on a donkey to protect a herd the way an animal specifically bred to do so would. It's that reliance that puts animals in harm's way, as that same donkey is genetically programmed to run away from predators MORE than fighting them. They might successfully fend off a predator attack 5x but the 6th time the odds are still just as high it will be mauled, killed or simply choose to flee instead of fighting. To keep all animals safe, livestock guardian dogs should always be used instead of prey animals.
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u/astarions_catamite 2d ago
Long ago i used to work in donations sorting for goodwill and we had “regulars” that would come in several times a day looking for bargains to re sell or were just hoarders. My absolute favorite was a woman named Jetty. Maybe 50-55, quirky as all hell, and exactly what you’d expect from a person who hits the same goodwill multiple times a day. Just batty lol. She somehow “found” baby animals all over the place and always hid them under her jacket and snuck them in while she shopped and chatted us up. I have seen baby possums, raccoons (she had fucking 3 of them under her coat and one in her fanny pack. We caught her because they purr like kittens but much louder and customers were afraid she was hiding a bomb, Fox kits (2 at once), kittens and puppies multiple times, several occasions with birds, both large and small, one time a hedgehog (my favorite it was so cute), and the absolute wildest was a baby otter which is NOT local to this area at all lol. Never underestimate what weird ass people will do. To be fair all the animals seemed to really love her lol.
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u/Nightingdale099 1d ago
I thought we were talking about donkeys and I'm imagining an elderly donkey with a jacket smuggling baby animals.
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u/shawdowalker 2d ago
O wow didn't know that. All I know that some shepherds keep em for sheep guarding but to have em for just cuz is amazing. Thx for the insight.
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u/Belezoar1 2d ago
I've been told donkeys will teach horses to lead by tethering them together. However, apparently the donkeys will get fed up having to deal with breaking too many horses and will start killing them.
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u/Associate_Less 2d ago
My first pet was a rock. I had a tank and all. The rock became apart of fire bellied toads enclosure as I slowly worked my way up from amphibians to reptiles. My favorite pets were my Savanah monitor, Nile monitor, and my rose haired tarantula
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u/-little-spoon- 1d ago
My first pet I was responsible for myself was a turkey dinosaur which I begged to keep and promised to care for because I got emotionally attached and felt too guilty to eat it. I obviously didn’t give him the right enclosure though because he wouldn’t eat the salad I put in his box for him and one day he started to smell and I knew he was gone.
I was genuinely grief stricken at the time and nobody ever tried to feed me anything shaped like an animal again. Though even if I was left alone too long with some amorphous blob of food I’d give it a backstory in my head and get too sad to eat it 🙈
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u/CockamouseGoesWee 1d ago
Yes absolutely! Donkeys are very intelligent and the only time they are mean is if you are mean to the donkey first, which is deserved. My mother befriended an abused donkey back home in Greece when she would free the donkey from its abusive owner repeatedly. She couldn't do much else because she was a teenager but the donkey remembered her. If I had a farm I'd get donkeys. In Greece we also ride them, but I'd avoid a lot of services especially in Santorini that offer this to tourists as an experience because right now a lot of people are being cruel to their donkeys. There needs to be more legal protections for donkeys.
Like another person already said, donkeys can become very effective livestock guardians which helps protect both farm animals and wildlife who'll think twice from attacking and everyone remains safe. They also can become feral and transfer their protectiveness to wild herds. Diesel famously is doing this for an elk herd: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insideedition.com/beloved-runaway-donkey-seen-appearing-to-be-leading-herd-of-elk-after-going-missing-5-years-ago%3famp
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u/gaze-upon-it 1d ago
You have to give those goats a place to getaway, like a small shed or platform. Our donkeys would occasionally do the same but eventually they young goats would jump up on their backs and the donkeys liked the back rub.
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u/LopsidedKick9149 2d ago
Aren't you usually supposed to have two donkeys to keep them from becoming depressed? Not that I doubt your caring for these animals, they clearly have a beautiful area to run around in. But a friend may make him less pushy with the goats.
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u/anonfortherapy 2d ago
You can have other animals as companions to donkeys
Looks like this donkey just got some new goat friends
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u/TheyCallHimJimbo 1d ago
Excuse me but who gives a fuck what goats like? If I recall correctly, actually let me just double check my notes here... yes... 100% of all goats who ever lived were surveyed and 0% of them have ever considered whether any other form of life liked the things they did. Wow. 100% of all goats who ever lived were in that survey! That's incontrovertible!
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u/burghblast 1d ago
I read that donkeys will stomp and bite wolves to death and some people keep them on farms to protect livestock.
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u/DogtasticLife 2d ago
Wow even donkeys can be jerks, saddest day
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u/Bubbly-Taro-583 2d ago
Yeah, sometimes they can be a complete jackass if they’ve got the balls for it.
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