When confronted by a flimsy fence, most of the donkeys just hem and (hee) haw, but one especially brainy burro steps up and does a neigh-borly good deed.
But wait! The clever donkey strikes again!
Cleverly submitted by Cheryl S. and Faye.
When confronted by a flimsy fence, most of the donkeys just hem and (hee) haw, but one especially brainy burro steps up and does a neigh-borly good deed.
But wait! The clever donkey strikes again!
Cleverly submitted by Cheryl S. and Faye.
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Gaaaa! I got stuff to do today! I can’t keep up with all Mike’s awesome, wonderful distractions!
What manners too! “Allow me; after you, after you.”
No Wall!
Rah! Rah! Rah! Hee-haw! Eeyore!
That donkey is a genius.
Yes! I think especially in the 2nd video, you can practically hear the wheels turning as he thinks it through.
(oops – I meant this as a reply to Murray’s comment below)
Love how he scopes out the situation!
Well done, critter! Now, could we get a brief word with the location’s security director?
Well, he’s not available, because he decided to take his career in another direction.
This is his final security piece, entitled “The idea of a fence.” Notice how it forces the viewer to question who is really being confined, and who gets to decide about barriers. As you know, art has always been a tool for commenting on our times.
That’s all the time we have for questions. Please avail yourselves of photo opportunities in the front paddock!
“Are we not all confined by the invisible fences of the mind?” Wonders the donkey as he contemplates the fence pole.
So true, Faye. If only we could follow the donkey’s lead on this.
I love all the cute donkey content lately! They so soft and fluffy with big soulful eyes. I just love them.
So much better than the asses that live around me…
Oh, Allein, I hope life isn’t that bad!
I have happy memories of scritching donkey ears and they loved it so.
Mostly people who think the volume knob on their car stereo only goes in one direction.
Before we had our windows replaced our windows would rattle in response to the volume of the radios belonging to kids in cars leaving the high school down the road. I feel you pain.
Surely the cleverest donkey is the one who waits for the fence to be removed?
I saw part of a documentary where two honey badgers which had been nursed back to health, but habituated to humans and couldn’t be released. They’d work together to get a door with two spring-loaded latches open. They’d roll up balls of mud after a heavy rain and build a ramp out of their enclosure. They’d climb and tear branches off a tree to build a makeshift ladder. Each time the end result was either wandering around aimlessly or breaking into the keeper’s house and raiding the fridge. We’d be in a world of hurt if they had thumbs.
I can only imagine what it’d be like if they weighed hundreds of pounds and had hooves.
Wow! I had no idea honey badgers were so intelligent. (I knew they didn’t care, of course, but . . . . )
😛
Oh, I saw that – with the South African guy? Yes, it was a total battle of wits between him and the honey badgers. He had such respect for their jailbreaking skills.
For donkey lovers: The New York Times is currently running a series of columns from a guy who adopted a terribly neglected, very smart donkey named Sherman. He’s training Sherman to run in marathons. (Apparently, this is a thing.) Anyway, the columns are worth checking out. And yes, there are pictures!
Wonderful!
I did a 5K fund-raiser walk a few years ago and got outpaced by some high school kids with their mascot – a donkey. And several dogs. That’s the Berkshires! 😀