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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on January 03, 2007, 10:52:53 pm

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: loulou on January 03, 2007, 10:52:53 pm

I really want this donkey. I may adopt one. It's £15 a year and I get a newsletter and a photo. But the trouble with adopting one is there will be a 100 more people paying to adopt the same donkey and I want one of my own.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: kevvosa on January 03, 2007, 11:04:11 pm

So do you mean that by adopting it you won't get to see it in person? 

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: oldspice on January 04, 2007, 06:38:57 am

You can usually visit an animal you have adopted.

I adore donkeys too lou, which is strange becasue I don't much care for horses but donkeys seem different somehow.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: on January 04, 2007, 08:31:00 am

They are sweet

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: kevvosa on January 04, 2007, 09:07:05 am

I want to get my own hens when I move house. 

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: loulou on January 04, 2007, 09:39:16 am

Quote from: kevvosa

So do you mean that by adopting it you won't get to see it in person? 

You can visit the donkey sanctuary. There's one in Ireland.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: on January 04, 2007, 11:14:56 am

What's the difference between an Ass and a Donkey?

No smutty answers.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 04, 2007, 11:24:08 am

This was a question on QI not that long ago. IIRC I don't think there is a difference. They are the same creature but if anything is different about them it's that the ass is wild and the donkey is domesticated. And I remember them saying that donkey used to pronounced differently, like monkey but with a d.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: loulou on January 04, 2007, 02:53:03 pm

  

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: on January 04, 2007, 03:20:17 pm

So what's a mule?

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 04, 2007, 03:53:14 pm

A mule is a cross between a male donkey and a female horse.

And although you haven't asked, the website I found said that when you cross a female donkey and a male horse you get a hinney.

Title: miniature donkey
Post by: Velvet Darkness on January 04, 2007, 04:03:16 pm

The site also said that mules and hinneys are sterile hybrids, which means they cannot reproduce. A tiny percentage of the females have had foals but this is considered a freak genetic accident.

How awful is that? It just goes to show that mother nature should not be messed with.