Please think before considering the purchase of a donkey.1. Don't buy an intact jack to guard or as a pet. Unless you are an experienced breeder, buy a gelding or a jennet.
2. Don't buy just one, these are herd animals and need the companionship of their own kind, preferably the same sex as well.
3. Budget the cost of feed, shots and farrier care. Don't believe that donkeys can be let alone and not cared for. They just don't need as much food as horses.
4. Good quality food, not weeds and throwaway hay, please.
5.Don't use a mini donkey as a guard. Dogs can do great harm to a mini donkey.
6. Budget time to work with the donkeys, there is nothing more miserable than trying to help an injured animal that has not been worked with.
7. Consider the fact that donkeys may live to be 45 years old.
8. No pet is disposable, in my opinion.
I may have forgotten something, but I feel that these are valid points.
Thanks for looking, Mary, mom to 2 rescue donkeys and 2 rescue mules
from an ad on craigslist
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