New resident Donkey for my small town

[Jdeere562]

Just read about this tonight. Folks in town are hearing a Donkey braying!
One side of this street is in city limits-the other is considered rural. So the Donkey is legal.

Tonight he was sounding off at 9:00 PM. Lots of new housing on the city side.
My Daughter lives close to there, so I will ask her tomorrow.

 

[ripcord]

They can be pretty loud sometimes. Our neighbor (across the street) has a donkey who is very sweet and loves attention. Her owner talks to her with baby talk and she just eats it up. If dinner is late, though, she lets everybody know.

 

[Sedin26]

I’d love to have a pet donkey. Our neighbours had one for about 20 years. You could hear it sometimes but it’s not an obnoxious sound. It was very friendly and enjoyed food and petting.

 

[MParr]

I’d rather hear a donkey braying than a boom car riding by.

 

[shortyb]

Teacher friend of my wife has a dwarf donkey. Named it Jack and has tons of personality. If I ever move somewhere that has some room, I'd get one too. Along with a pig (no pun) and a goat. Guess I'd have to get a big straw hat and a pitchfork as well .

 

[Snagglefoot]

Here’s the resident grass cutters down the road. The donkey thinks it’s a llama and the llama thinks it’s a donkey. They are best of friends and are always grazing together.

 

[Jdeere562]

Daughter and family hear it at their house. They only live about 1/2 mile away from the farm, as the crow flies.

Seems most city folks actually enjoy hearing him. They encourage folks to come and meet him. Guess he loves company and snacks.

Suppose they would not like hogs being raised there.

 

[Pterostylis]

Visited this donkey today.
Of course I got distracted talking to my wife and got bitten on the arm, by the donkey, not my wife…

 

[doitmyself]

Suppose they would not like hogs being raised there.

Occasionally the sadistic side of me emerges. I often encourage the local farmers to spread their liquid manure when the wind is blowing towards the encroaching suburbia. Fortunately, we have the Michigan Right to Farm Act.

 

[wings&wheels]

Reminds me of a funny story. In the late 90's I was doing some integration work, the mechanics of merging acquired companies into the parent, and we had acquired a small software engineering group in the Flanders region of Belgium. This small group were located in a farmhouse on a beautiful farm and to say these highly talented engineers were unique or even eccentric would be a huge understatement.... The company had a old pet donkey named Paul and part of the deal was that he stays.

While some of the folks were in a twist about the whole deal, we didn't have any choice and I asked for a good picture of Paul and had the team make an official badge for him to wear on his harness. Paul had an employee badge and number with his picture and name; Paul de Donkey. I did it for a laugh, but it did buy us a lot of goodwill and we'd get updates on Paul. He lived another 3-4 years, and for that time I'd guess that we were the only Global 200 company with a Flemish donkey on the payroll.

 

[Chris142]

A Donkey can hear another Donkey 60 miles away

 

[ripcord]

A Donkey can hear another Donkey 60 miles away

And beat up a hyena.

 

[Opelman]

OK, someone has to say it, your neighbor ha a NICE ASS. All sophomoric humor aside, donkeys are fun little critters. We have 2 here who belong to my mom who lives next door but up the road a bit. The female is much more talkative than the male (go figure). I send pics of them to my friends in CA with the caption "it's [insert wx condition here] on our asses. Friend sent back that his wife thinks we have cute asses.

 

[jhellwig]

Mom and Dad had a donkey for years. Grandpa had bought him back in the 90s. He loved to stand on a rock pile next to the road showing his "love" for the horses across the road. When he would start to bray grandpa would tell him "Tune it up Jack!" He had the same issue the horses did. If you didn't pay attention to them they would bite or slobber you.

 

[Kira]

I've known people with llamas and others with donkeys.
Never did I see any one of them do anything productive.
I was told llamas can be trained to carry 2 sets of golf clubs.

 

[Big E]

We have a "Zonkey" not too far from us...