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If you have visited the "Our Story" page, you know why we have a donkey. Susie is her name. She was an adult animal when we purchased her at the Hamilton Livestock Auction in 2000. Her age is estimated to be fifteen years.
Susie has an unusual personality. She is gentle and tolerant with the goats she was hired to protect. She has been seen to allow the goats to take over her feed bucket without protest. Little kids have been observed walking between her feet. But, she will not allow a human to get any closer than twenty feet from her. She will snort and walk or run off. For all the time she has been at the Walking H, she still she acts as though everyone is a total stranger.
Susie is a great guard animal and the goats know to react when she sounds her snorting alert. Every pointy head will react and look around to find the cause for Susie's loud exhalation.
In October 2011, we added another donkey to the guard detail. She came for a price we just couldn't refuse, FREE! We have named her Sweet Pea. Her assignment is to look out for the bucks. So far she has shown herself to be very tolerant of her smelly charges.
Her personality is just the opposite of Susie's with regard to human contact, she craves it. Offer her a peppermint and she will follow you anywhere. She greets us at the gate as we approach her pasture. Her liking for treats may have something to do with that, but it is nice to think she just likes to be near us.